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Lauren’s Favors Local Flavors
Lauren Keating One afternoon when I was eating lunch with Barbara Goodell at Lauren’s Restaurant I overheard Barbara and Lauren discussing a story that was to be written about Lauren’s Restaurant with...
View ArticleCreatures Great & Not So Great
In my years in Anderson Valley, from the late 1950s to the late 1980s, I experienced plenty of local wildlife: a sea of baby toads on every sandbank along lower Rancheria Creek in early summer,...
View ArticleAirstrikes & Organs
When I hear talk of air strikes I think of Dresden, and not just because, like so many American school kids I had to read Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five. I first visited the city in 1989 just a...
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Mendocino County Today: September 26, 2013
BACK-TO-BACK jive stories from the Press Democrat on Tuesday and Wednesday. Tuesday, Glenda Anderson reported from Ukiah that the SEIU one-day strike was a great success. Glenda’s source? An SEIU...
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Mendocino County Today: November 9, 2013
HEADLINE in Friday’s Press Democrat read “In need of rain, lots of it.” The “story” was accompanied by a photo of a drained, mudflat called Lake Mendocino. The story should be called, “In Need of a...
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Mendocino County Today: November 10, 2013
WILL PARRISH’S TRIAL has been put over until January 27th because attorneys have not reviewed what Parrish’s attorney, Omar Figueroa, describes as “voluminous” California Highway Patrol and Caltrans...
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Mendocino County Today: November 11, 2013
RECOMMENDED VIEWING only for people who will enjoy two hours of unrelieved, and unrelievedly graphic, beatings, lynchings, rapes, and murders which, as most of us already know, was slavery in America....
View ArticleBring On The Clowns
I’ve been trying to get out to see the local refugee camps, aka “Internally Displaced Persons” or IDP camps. There are checkpoints where documents are inspected and you must have some reason for going....
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Is Sonoma County Stealing Mendo Water?
Supervisor John Pinches’ proposal for the Board of Supervisors to form an “ad-hoc committee” to look into Russian River water rights got off to a stumbling beginning last Tuesday when the titular...
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Crazy Vatos Controlas!
Ivan Sanchez & Richard Olstad The Fort Bragg gang problem doesn’t seem to be getting any better. The idiot wars between the red and the blue, the north and the south, the Norteños and the Sueños,...
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Mendocino County Today: November 12, 2013
FOLLOW THIS FINGER, DEPUTY by Bruce McEwen “Need for Speed,” the infantile flick filmed in Anderson Valley and other Mendo locales last spring, drew small crowds of onlookers wowed by the automotive...
View ArticleThat Day, Again
Everyone will be talking about where everyone was that day. Except that “everyone” in this country now means fewer than one in four people — those of us who were alive and of an age to have had...
View ArticleSlaves Of Fruit
“Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.” — Martin Luther A few days ago, Abigail Summers, cellist, pianist and yogini, came over from Willits to...
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Ambling Towards Oblivion
“Ambling Toward Oblivion,” graphite, cheap ass ballpoint pen, india ink and watercolor on paper, 18×24. Drawing by Kim Nicolini. In case you couldn’t tell, this is a drawing I did of Russell Brand. I...
View ArticleBird’s Eye View
Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably then I shall begin. But only to tell you that I am sort of taking the week off and this week’s column will just be providing the Public Service...
View ArticlePanther Soccer 2013
The postseason for the High School Boys’ Soccer Play-Offs saw AV begin with a home quarter-final match at Tom Smith Field against South Fork, who had beaten Rincon Valley 4-1 in their round-of-16...
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Life In A Wick Drain Stitcher Part 3: Unseasonal Rain
Life in a wick drain stitcher. The past 160 years have involved the utter destruction of the vast majority of perhaps the most ecologically important natural communities there are here in California:...
View ArticleSports Notes
I was out of the Valley two Saturdays ago when our AV Panthers Varsity football team defeated the visiting Laytonville Warriors, 62-16. The varsity Panthers had a 5 win/3 loss record this season to...
View ArticleIn Judge Brennan’s Courtroom
When Fort Bragg Police Chief Scott Mayberry comes to the Ten Mile Court and stays for over an hour and his name isn’t on any witness or subpoena list, then something is up. When Judge Clayton Brennan...
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Mendocino County Today: November 13, 2013
AS OF TUESDAY, November 12, the print edition of 8 November had still not reached San Francisco. ============================= Dr. & Mrs. Keegan IT’S THE THIRD anniversary of Susan Keegan’s murder....
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