Berry Picking
There’s nothing like indulging in the late summer pastime of roadside berry picking to renew your appreciation for the free bounty of edibles Mother Nature provides us with, coming from the invasive...
View ArticleThe Wounded Gull
Our boat was tied up to the commercial dock at Half Moon Bay where I sat on the engine room hatch-cover tying trolling-gear. Looking up from my work I saw a seagull trailing a wing in the water just...
View ArticleHow Good It Is, Lemons’ Market
Lemons’ Market, nestled in the small burg of Philo just five miles north of Boonville, has been a mainstay in Anderson Valley for 40 years now. Elmer and June Lemons, along with their son Tom and his...
View ArticleBird’s Eye View
Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably then I shall begin. Welcome to the 300th edition of “A Bird’s Eye View” since Sir Bruce’s return to the helm of the AVA in July 2007. Some of you...
View ArticleFruit Bats
In Sittwe the bats fly at dusk. The rude squawky crows that rule the airspace during the days have all settled in for the night. These bats aren’t the little fluttery things we think of but large...
View ArticleValley People
THE SMOKE drifting into Mendocino County on Sunday, heavily on Monday, dissipating on Tuesday is assumed to have come from large-scale fires burning in Butte County and three fires well north of the...
View ArticleOff The Record
SUPERVISOR PINCHES said Monday that he won’t run again for 3rd District supervisor. “I never considered myself a politician, nevermind a career politician. I’ve been in the job 12 years and that’s...
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Mendocino County Today: August 22, 2013
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE, Eureka, at 2:14 this afternoon issued a severe thunderstorm warning for northwest California, particularly the eastern areas of Humboldt County and all of Trinity County....
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Mendocino County Today: August 23, 2013
STATE PARKS has apparently rented all the camping spots at Hendy Woods to a Russian evangelical group over the weekend, much to the chagrin and even outrage of locals. The Rooskies are said to be...
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Mendocino County Today: August 24, 2013
ALL THAT FISH AND GAME commotion at Little River yesterday (Thursday)? An abalone study off of Van Damme State Beach, not an abalone bust. ============================= LAST WEEK SUPERVISOR DAN HAMBURG...
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Mendocino County Today: August 25, 2013
ROOSKIES AT HENDY WOODS, Take Two: We’ve learned that there is indeed a group called Camp Skala that does have almost all of the camping slots at the park reserved over the Labor Day weekend. But State...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: August 26, 2013
OFF THE CUFF: SEIU, the union that represents most County workers, says the County has a lot of money stashed in the County’s reserve fund that should go to County workers to restore the ten percent...
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Mendocino County Today: August 27, 2013
A RECENT SF CHRON story co-featured a 32-year-old Democrat named Eric Swalwell, an East Bay congressman simply because Swalwell regularly appears at town hall forums at a time few congressman are...
View ArticleThe Jury Got Robbed
The courtroom can be better entertainment than cable TV. Tragedy, comedy, and everything in between plays every day all day at the County Courthouse, sometimes in one guy — one guy like Marc...
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Who Will Stop CalTrans?
In the pre-dawn hours of August 18th, CalTrans contractor FlatIron Construction sent a fleet of dump trucks and excavators into one of inland Mendocino County’s most historically pivotal sites,...
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GREAT SAVE last Thursday morning by Anderson Valley’s firefighters backed up by CalFire. Anderson Valley Fire Chief Colin Wilson reports: “The ‘Deer’ incident near the ridge at the top of Deer Meadows...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: August 28, 2013
THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS, on a 3-2 vote Monday, denied the appeal by the Westport Municipal Advisory Council (WMAC) to stop a project by State Parks to remove the remnants of the old Georgia-Pacific...
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Living In A Wick Drain Stictcher, Part 2
An arrest is made during the effort to resupply Will Parrish. Courtesy savelittlelakevalley.org. By the end of my third day of living high in the wick drain stitcher in the northern construction area...
View ArticlePanther Soccer 2013
This report refers to soccer, although to some readers the sport in question is football, or perhaps futbol. Whichever term you prefer, I hope you will enjoy the weekly reports on the 2013 high school...
View ArticleRiver Views
August 28th marks the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington, but it’s also the anniversary of Midway Atoll formally becoming a United States possession. The proclamation was made by Captain...
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