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The Proud City Of Boonville…
Last Thursday, the “ad hoc committee” recently convened by the Community Services District Board met to explore the possibility of city-style incorporation for the Anderson Valley. In a nutshell: It’s...
View ArticleLetters: Jan 15, 2014
BLAST FROM THE PAST: (Ukiah Daily Journal, June 1982) Coast Supervisor Candidates Square Off On TV by Charles Rappleye, Ukiah Daily Journal staff writer Fifth District politics entered the modern age...
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Valley People
ABOUT AN HOUR of rain fell on Mendocino County Saturday morning, just enough to sweeten the air and whet our thirst for more, much more. If we got a quarter inch Saturday we’d be surprised. In fact,...
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THE MENDO County Supervisors, on Tuesday (7th January), voted unanimously to declare a local emergency “and imminent threat of disaster” from drought, and appointed two of its members, Carre Brown and...
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“While thou livest, keep a good tongue in thy head.” — William Shakespeare We were having supper with friends recently, and somehow the conversation came around to Shakespeare and the news that a...
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When The Well Runs Dry
The smattering of recent rain hasn’t rid the Albion River of its gray and orange hued appearance. On the other hand the 200-foot deep well that serves this house continues to regularly pump water into...
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The 2013 Not So Simple Living Fair
by Ignatzio Ignoffo My wife and I visited Boonville late last July. We came to see some friends on the weekend of the Not So Simple Living Fair, which sounded like the sort of thing we would be...
View ArticleBetween The Graveyard & The Gorge
Ithaca, New York — I live between a gorge and a cemetery, a position that often gets me to thinking about the fleeting nature of life. The gorge to our south began forming a mere 10,000 years ago at...
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Mendocino County Today: January 16, 2014
WILL PARRISH, perhaps best known as a writer with the AVA, will next appear in court on Monday, January 27th, where he faces a wild array of misdemeanor charges — 17 of them — for three arrests in...
View ArticleOccupied
This is the joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; being a force of Nature, instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining...
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Down The NSA Rabbit Hole
What does spending $100 billion over the last ten years get you? It gets one huge, bloated, ineffectual agency of government — the NSA (National Security Agency). While the actual budget of this spy...
View ArticleFarm To Farm
Friday I emerged from bed a couple hours after noon, made a pot of tea and went out back to toss a loaf of cheap ass white bread to the five hens and one cock who comprise my entire wealth of livestock...
View ArticleBird’s Eye View
Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably then I shall begin. Well, the “bad preacher” (rain) came into the Valley on Saturday morning but by the afternoon he had gone, thus not behaving...
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Defending Dennis Rodman
Dennis Rodman’s recent trip to North Korea with a team of retired NBA players to take part in an exhibition game was akin to John Lennon and Yoko Ono going to bed in public to end the war in Vietnam,...
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Aristo Fetishism In Downton Abbey
“Property is theft.” —Proudhon I’m sure we all have better things to do than watch that emotionally involving, spacey-fiction example of Disraeli-era “one nation” Tory-conservative spin, Downton Abbey....
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Book Review by Anne Shirako
Fourteen year old June depends on the love and attention of her uncle Finn to sustain her through her empty days with overtaxed accountant parents, with Greta, her “mean girl” older sister, and with a...
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Mendocino County Today: January 17, 2014
Debbie Clark (Photo, courtesy, the Willits News) DEBBIE CLARK, long-time publisher of the Willits News, has announced she is retiring, one more sign that the chain-owned Mendo papers, all of them...
View ArticleSenility Etiquette
A question of manners: What is the proper way to inform a friend that you have already heard the story they have started to tell for the 53rd time? Equally vexing: What is the proper thing to do when...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: January 18, 2014
BREAKING… (01-17) 10:01 PST San Francisco — Governor Jerry Brown on Friday officially declared a drought emergency in California, asking residents to voluntarily reduce their water use by 20 percent...
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Mendocino County Today: January 18, 2014
CALIFORNIA DROUGHT EMERGENCY MADE OFFICIAL (01-17) 10:01 PST San Francisco — Governor Jerry Brown on Friday officially declared a drought emergency in California, asking residents to voluntarily reduce...
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