Sako Faces His Critics
The Board of Directors of Mendocino County Public Broadcasting (MCPB) met last night, March 3. It was an interesting meeting — in some ways painful, while in other ways cathartic. It was a long...
View ArticleBEE THERE OR BEE SQUARE
What’s all the buzz about? A Pollinator Workshop! Friday March 21st 1-5pm At River’s Bend Retreat Center 18450 Rays Rd, Philo. Presenters and topics include: Jessa Guisse, Xerces Society, Native...
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Mendocino County Today: Tuesday, March 11, 2014
Last Chance Squandered Tichinin Endorses Hyphenate Resource Wars Meth Padded Bra Muddy Shoe Bandit Drummer Bummer Ambulance Privatization Moves Forward How KMUD Kicked KZYX’s Butt Smart Water Use...
View ArticleSMART PLANTS & BEAUTIFUL BIRDS:
Wildlife Film Fest double feature features extraordinary new research and photography. The International Wildlife Film Festival’s Post-Festival Tour continues this Friday, March 14 at 7 pm at the Ukiah...
View ArticleGIRL SCOUTS TO HOST 5TH ANNUAL CORNED BEEF & CABBAGE DINNER
Saturday March 15 from 5-8pm at the Veteran’s Memorial Building inUkiah. Tickets are $10 per adult and $5 per child, with a slight price increase at the door, and are on sale at Mendocino Book Company...
View ArticleThe 2014 Variety Show
I went to the 2014 Anderson Valley Variety Show at the Philo Grange on Friday night and then again on Saturday. As always, the pre-show parade of local glitterati showing off their star power as they...
View ArticleJoyce Murray
An elegant, unfailingly pleasant woman, Joyce Murray, lived a long and full life, some of which Joyce, who passed away last week, shared with Steve Sparks and the readers of this newspaper in 2009. In...
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The Reign Of King David
“The duty of the prosecutor is to seek justice, not merely to convict.” — American Bar Association, Criminal Justice Standards. * * * Deputy Clint Wyant made his Boonville grandfather proud last month...
View ArticleValley People (Mar 12, 2014)
JOYCE MURRAY OF BOONVILLE HAS DIED. Mrs. Murray’s husband, Ross, said that Mrs. Murray passed away Thursday night. She was 87. Joyce Murray was a well-known professional singer with the Andrew Sisters....
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Off The Record (Mar 12, 2014)
CORRECTION: In last week’s story by Bruce McEwen on the Escareno saga, we got our cats mixed up. Kit Elliot, not Kitty Houston, is representing Escareno. THE LODGE AT THE WOODS, an assisted living...
View ArticleVery Little Of Substance…
At the beginning of the film version of The Ox-Bow Incident a dog runs across the dirt street of a small western town. At the end of the movie, the dog meanders back across the street. The ironic...
View ArticleFracking On The North Coast
Across geologic time, rainwater sculpts the land into cradlelike entities that comprise a watershed. For the vast majority of inland Mendocino County, the basin that collects the water that the land...
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Mendocino County Today: Wednesday, March 12, 2014
Elder Woods Closure Hendy Beer Fear PD Application Diverse Oligarchs Bud Tourists I Will Wade Out Top Ten Poems Supes Okay Hound Hunt Reflections On Justice Into That Long KZYX Night Medical Marijuana...
View ArticleREGISTER FOR 25TH MENDOCINO COAST WRITERS CONFERENCE
Celebrating its 25th anniversary of connecting writers to community, the Mendocino Coast Writers Conference opens registration March 15 for the three-day event, July 31-August 2, at the College of the...
View ArticleREPUBLICANS TO MEET IN FORT BRAGG
The Mendocino County Republican Central Committee will meet Saturday, March 22, 2014, 10:00 AM – 12:00 Noon at the Moura Senior Housing, 400 South Street, Fort Bragg, CA 95437. For further...
View ArticleCANDIDATE LIST 2014
The County has posted a list of all candidates for the June 2014 elections as of the closing date last week: http://www.co.mendocino.ca.us/acr/pdf/CANDIDATE_LIST_Final_June_2014.pdf
View ArticleThe New Yorker
When I was in my twenties I sent dozens of my short stories to The New Yorker with no success, and when I was in my early thirties, after my first two novels garnered stellar reviews in the Briefly...
View ArticleChaining the Land
About 30 years ago the master surveyor, the late Don McMath, told me about how, back in the middle of the 17th Century, Europe’s first large-scale scientific land survey took place.
View ArticleHollywood Space Cadets
There is no more oxygen-hungry corner of the cosmos than Hollywood on Academy Awards night. Consumption of the life-sustaining substance reaches dangerously high levels each year on the first Sunday...
View ArticleBird’s Eye View (Mar 12, 2014)
“The Turkey Vulture has landed,” as someone very famously once said. And I’m very pleasantly shocked to see how green everything is! When I left these shores a few short weeks ago all was brown and dry.
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