A PORTRAIT OF OUR TIMES
Mendocino County Art Association’s 60th year invites reflection, celebration by Roberta Werdinger The Grace Hudson Museum will host a special weekend of events on March 28 and 29 to celebrate the...
View ArticleTSUNAMI WARNING TEST, March 26
On Wednesday, March 26, 2014, between 11am and noon in Del Norte, Humboldt and Mendocino counties, there will be a tsunami warning communications test. The test will involved interuptions of television...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Tue, Mar 18, 2014 [free today]
Enriquez Update; Home Burial; Apeshit Culture; Ax Man; Hare Creek Incident; Gardner Croons; Baseball Canto; Willing Executioner; Trail Along 128; Zozobra Burning; Rain Storage; Gaga Imperialism;...
View Article‘WATER WORLDS’ AT WILDLIFE FILM FEST
Award-winning films show dependence of big on little The International Wildlife Film Festival continues its popular series with two films this Friday, March 21st at the Ukiah Civic Center at 7 pm that...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Wednesday, March 19, 2014
Morning Frostcopters; Coq au Vin History; Locksmith Tragedy; Sort Of Song; Don't Frack California; Stornetta Lands; CA Natives Rising
View ArticleWatch Out For That Subpoena
Last Friday the local press corps descended on the Courthouse en masse to see what would happen with “The Talmage Tot Torturers,” as they’ve come to be known.
View ArticleValley People (Mar 19, 2014)
Noting the presence of a pump and 3-inch pipe helping itself to the flow near the confluence of the Indian, Anderson and the Rancheria all-year streams where they join to form the Navarro River
View ArticleOff The Record (Mar 19, 2014)
AN INFLAMMATORY STORY in a recent Chronicle begins, “San Francisco spends $165 million a year on services for homeless people, but all that money hasn't made a dent in the homeless population in at...
View ArticleLetters (Mar 19, 2014)
Thank you for including a likeness of me with Mr. McEwen’s March 12th article, “The Reign of King David.” I lament had I only started my diet sooner it may have been more difficult for your graphic...
View ArticleIda’s Place—Book 1
About a year ago I began writing a novel entitled Ida’s Place—Book One: Return, the first of what I intend to be at least a trio of connected novels. My other twenty novels, published and unpublished,...
View ArticleBird’s Eye View (Mar 19, 2014)
As I am sure nobody is aware, in two weeks, on these very pages, the 400th Turkey Vulture column will appear! Obviously there will be parades and celebrations throughout the western world, or at least...
View ArticleForty Years of Homesteading
In 1973 I bought forty acres of steep, forested land at the end of a dead end road on the Nash Ranch. It was five miles from the paved road and was totally off-grid. My nearest neighbor was over two...
View ArticleA Good Day For Coastal Mendocino
For everyone who attended the dedication ceremony on the Stornetta Lands just north of Point Arena, it is ‘a dream come true.’ The California Coastal National Monument had indeed come ashore. Until...
View ArticleZozobra: Santa Fe’s Burning Man
Wrap up all your troubles and woes and give them to Zozobra to be carried away. Zozobra is a 40-foot tall marionette that has been torched by a dancer for the last ninety years in Santa Fe, New Mexico....
View ArticleDeputy and Gunman Shot Dead In Cleone
MENDOCINO COUNTY Sheriff’s Deputy Ricky Del Fiorentino, 48, was shot to death today (Wednesday) when he was ambushed by a man on a major crime run that began late Tuesday night in Eugene, Oregon. Most...
View ArticleInternal Strife Rocks KZYX’s Boat
A standing room only crowd of over 50 people filled the Fort Bragg Redwood Senior Center’s second largest room on March 3rd for the KZYX Board of Directors’ meeting. Long gone are the quiet days when...
View ArticleUpdate: Confusion Hill Encounter
At 10:34 a.m., Allman said, the Sheriff's Office received a call after a local business owner fired shots at the suspect at Confusion Hill, a tourist attraction along Highway 101 north of Leggett.
View ArticleUpdate: Chaney’s Previous Arrests
Local records show that Eugene police arrested Chaney on March 6 on charges of unlawful possession of the drug ecstasy and unlawful possession or concealment of firearms. Chaney was booked and released...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Thursday, March 20, 2014
Sleep v. Grapes; New Retirement Administrator; Drought Committee Agenda; Six Million Dollar Monument; Prepare For Wildfires; Argument Ends With A Bang; Pacifica Standoff; Industrial Collapse;...
View ArticleCarpenter’s Gothic
This past weekend at New York’s Lincoln Center the iconoclastic organ virtuoso Cameron Carpenter unswaddled his restive imagination’s latest brainchild, a year-and-a-half in gestation. Midwife was the...
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