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Crabs Before Christmas? Maybe Not
Photo by Darya Pino via Flickr. According to the Department of Fish and Wildlife, starting tonight at midnight, crab pots could legally go in the water and succulent crustaceans could be headed to...
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The Paul Hobbs Wine Empire Strikes Back
Paul Hobbs Winery. Photo by Jameson Fink via Flickr. The Watertrough Children’s Alliance (WCA) — mainly mothers with students at schools near where yet another apple orchard is being converted into a...
View ArticleCelebrity Saviors
“Kevin Anderson and Alice Bows-Larkin of the influential Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research in England say many of the solutions proposed by world leaders to prevent “runaway global warming”...
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We’re the bright young men, who want to go back to Nineteen-Ten, we’re Barry’s Boys. We’re the kids with a cause, yes a government like grandmama’s, we’re Barry’s boys. We’re the new kind of youth at...
View ArticleBird’s Eye View
Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably then I shall begin. So how was your Turkey Day? Excessive and “over-the-top” I hope. I was kindly invited to an event attended by a...
View ArticlePanther Soccer 2013
The 2013 high school boys soccer season ended in ultimate victory for Anderson Valley — the post season Championship. However, as followers of the team are well aware, it was a roller-coaster ride and...
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Ken Kesey’s Early Years
In the mid-1960s, Ken Kesey stormed the public stage like few writers ever have. His first two novels, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and Sometimes a Great Notion, were immediate American classics...
View ArticleScoring Disasters
What did people do before the invention of motion pictures to visualize the devastations wrought by natural disasters? From God’s fury on earth manifested in hurricanes and fires to the final...
View ArticleFrom The Archives: Food & Forgetfulness
(June 2001) Driving to town the other day I got stuck behind a livestock trailer taking calves to auction. Bumbling along at 30 mph I was forced to listen to an NPR interview, by Terry Gross I assume,...
View ArticleSado-Medicine
The notion that a business is clothed with a public interest and has been devoted to the public’s use is little more than a fiction intended to beautify what is disagreeable to the sufferers. — Oliver...
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Synanon Foundation Inc.
The Delmar Club Santa Monica, 1972 — No matter what happened in the life stream of my time in Santa Monica, I still can smell that light breeze bringing the fog in as the daylight fades over the beach....
View ArticleValley People
THERE ARE SOME big weekends in Boonville — fair time, rastafest, the annual beer party, a variety of wine events, and so. But the first weekend in December is right up there with the rest, what with...
View ArticleOff The Record
THE AVA has been looking all over Ukiah for a room or affordable apartment to rent for our ace reporter, Bruce McEwen. Nothing out there. Even the most flea-ridden fleabags demand upwards of $200 a...
View ArticleLetters To The Editor
A LOCAL HERO Dear Editor, Too often our local heroes are obscured in the smoke, whilst the cheaters and cowards emerge reimagined from the ashes of the destruction they have wrought. Such is the case...
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Mendocino County Today: December 5, 2013
JOHN HOGGATT has died. Known in Willits simply as John The Printer, John passed away Tuesday evening at his Willits home after a protracted battle with cancer. He has printed our newspaper for many...
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Mendocino County Today: December 6, 2013
THOMAS E. CROAK died on Sunday, Nov. 17, 2013, in a car accident. Born on Nov. 29, 1955 to Johanna Gillette and Thomas E. Croak Sr., he was 57. For 20 years Mr. Croak was one of the best and most...
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Mendocino County Today: December 7, 2013
WITH TEACHER AND STUDENT TESTING much in the news, this sensible on-line statement: “I used to be a public school teacher. What terrified me about the prospect of having a significant portion of my...
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Mendocino County Today: December 8, 2013
NO SOONER did we say we hadn’t heard any local reports of local “black ice” vehicle accidents from the recent freezing weather than we were told of three on Saturday morning. Two incidents occurred...
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Mendocino County Today: December 9, 2013
Scalmanini STEVE SCALMANINI is the only candidate to file papers to run for the Ukiah City Council vacancy created when Mari Rodin resigned to take a job working for the Local Agency Formation...
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Mendocino County Today: December 10, 2013
OFFICIALLY, it was 25° in Boonville at daybreak Monday. That’s where the National Weather Service placed us on the Cold Meter. Unofficially, by the Cold Meter at the house, it was 20°, so cold that...
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