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Mendocino County Today: January 23, 2014
WILL PARRISH is due in Mendocino County Superior Court Thursday morning where, it appears, an announcement will be made that his case has been settled. PARRISH was arrested last year after strapping...
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Mendocino County Today: January 24, 2014
WILL PARRISH TAKES TWO-YEAR INFRACTION PLEA DEAL by Tiffany Revelle Willits bypass protester Will Parrish took a plea deal in Mendocino County Superior Court Thursday in the trespassing case against...
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Mendocino County Today: January 25, 2014
DROUGHT NOTES SO MUCH WATER is moved around California by so many different agencies that maybe only the movers themselves know on any given day whose water is where. But to get a general picture it is...
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Mendocino County Today: January 26, 2014
DROUGHT NOTES: It is easy to forget that the only natural force over which we have any control out here is water, and that only recently. In my memory California summers were characterized by the...
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Mendocino County Today: January 27, 2014
THE FIRST REAL RAIN in nearly two months could hit later this week, ending an otherwise bone-dry January, forecaster Mike Pechner of Golden West Meteorology said Sunday. Pechner said the Northcoast...
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Mendocino County Today: January 28, 2014
A STORM blowing over the Pacific Ocean is expected to hit Northern California late Wednesday, bringing about a quarter inch of rain to the Northcoast over two days, according to the National Weather...
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Mendocino County Today: January 29, 2014
PETE SEEGER DIES AT 94 Singer-songwriter inspired folk revival in the US and was blacklisted during McCarthy era for his leftwing views and lyrics by Alexandra Topping Tributes have poured in honoring...
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Grapes: The Hog In The (Dry) Stream
“Perimeter lines and bulldozers.” —Anderson Valley Fire Chief Andres Avila explaining one of the adjustment’s firefighters will have to make to fight fires under drought conditions. “We’ll plant...
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LAUREN’S RESTAURANT was packed twice in the last week with gatherings of friends to help Diane Hering beat back a brain tumor then crowded again as her many friends said farewell to Regine...
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Off The Record
A STORY in a recent New York Times tells us that lots of rural-based county jails, mostly in the South, are selling e-cigarettes to inmates to moderate their behavior. “When these guys get in here...
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“The best is the enemy of good.” — Voltaire You have probably heard the provocative news that the New York Times recently declared the village of Mendocino and the surrounding scenic coastline to be...
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Not many rivers on earth have blasted through mountain ranges. The Bramhaputra River, which rises on the Tibetan Plateau and flows into the Bay of Bengal, cuts through the Himalayas and counts as the...
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Abbado the Great
(Author’s Note: I first came to Berlin in 2003, just after the great Claudio Abbado, who has died this week in Bologna, had passed the baton to Simon Rattle after more than a dozen years at the helm of...
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Top 85 Nabobs
Baseball’s Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York celebrates its 75th anniversary this year, but January 29th marks the date in 1936 when the Baseball Writers Association of America (BBWAA) released the...
View ArticleLetters: Jan 29, 2014
MAKING NEW MONEY Letter to the Editor: Mendocino County Public Bank Coalition members, Robin and Mary, were derailed by Supervisor Pinches’ responses to their education campaign in his office regarding...
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The Invisible Americans
I don’t speak Pashto, Farsi, Kurdish, Arabic or Urdu. Yet since 9/11 I have lived mentally in their homelands of Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq thousands of miles away. Partly it’s because our troops...
View ArticleDry Times
Drought. Even the word has a dry, raspy ring to it. Anderson Valley typically enjoys copious winter rain, but drought — for those who have lived in the valley long enough — is a known, if unwelcome,...
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Googling The Nice People
by Brook Smalle Theft. It’s the world’s second oldest profession. Some use force. Others cunning. Where the pickings are easy. Like your local charity. Who’d do such a thing? The nice people. Take...
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Double & Triple Jeopardy
You can’t be tried twice for the same crime in this fine, fair country of ours, the envy of the world for its just legal system. Unless. Unless you’re Matthew Graves. Graves Although Graves had been...
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Bird’s Eye View
Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably then I shall begin. Let’s get straight into some Shakespeare, the kind of high culture you expect when turning to this column in the first place....
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