Mendocino County Today: Wednesday, March 26, 2014
A Sad Week; A Sleepless Week; Memory Lane; Mendo HR; I Heard a Fly Buzz; Concealed Weapons; Food and Fiber; Domestic Concerns; Hey Richard Miller; Caltrans Coming to Albion; Exit Strategies; Corporate...
View ArticleThe Afterlife Of Mario Savio
Veterans of the 1964 Free Speech Movement in Berkeley, California, an event that electrified young men and women world over, will return to campus for the fiftieth anniversary reunion this October. (If...
View ArticleMORNING ROSES
You are invited to MORNING ROSES: An Introduction to Waldorf Preschool and Kindergarten, on Saturday, April 26, 9:45 am to 12:00 pm, at the Waldorf School of Mendocino County’s Calpella campus. Bring...
View ArticleENVIRONMENTAL FILM SHOWING & DISCUSSION WITH CALEEN SISK & DAN BACHER
On Friday, April 11, Caleen Sisk , Chief and Spiritual Leader of the Winnemem Wintu tribe, will share the film, “Standing on Sacred Ground,” and talk about their connection to water, Native...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Thursday, March 27, 2014
Deputy Mourned; Memorial Pillaged; Chaney's Release; Nuts for Parrots; Flocking to Point Arena; Agricultural Nuisance; WSJ Touts AV Appellation; UN Reviews Kent State; The Second Coming; Trucking 30...
View ArticleBlocked!
Since I am, at the very least, a semi-regular Contributor to the AVA, and haven’t contributed anything for awhile, I figured it was time to protect said Contributor Status, and submit an article. The...
View ArticleOff The Map
Marcia and I are on the two-movies-a-month plan from Netflix, and many of the movies we watch are foreign films and documentaries.
View ArticleBach Was Never This Buff, Never This Bad
Since medieval Germans attached pedals to their organs way back in the 14th Century, the instrument has been as much a gymnastic apparatus as a tool for musical expression. The most famous report of...
View ArticleThe Grapes of Wrath Turns 75
John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath (Viking Press, 1939, 619 pp.) turns 75 this year, and for many decades it has been regulated to juvenilia, to high school students, to young people inept at work...
View ArticleFarm To Farm
Country inhabitants of the Ohio river valley have endured the most arduous winter in memory, at least for people 77 years and younger. While the blizzard of ’77 lingers on in family photo albums, with...
View ArticleEarly Mendocino County
As opposed to Robert Frost’s two roads diverging in a wood, it is often the convergence of two paths that proves just as unexpected and consequential. I have spent the last weeks of winter and the...
View ArticleThat Other Drought
The recent drought in Northern California made me think of the last one back in the mid-seventies when I was living about six miles up Sherwood Road on a friend’s 20-acre property without electricity...
View ArticleCars, Trucks & Tractors
Pretty much like today, those – like me – who lived in Anderson Valley from the 1950s through the 1980s depended on cars to get around, pickup trucks to handle hauling (except for logs, lumber and...
View ArticleO Five Charlie
We were surrounded by southerners at Fort Gordon. I disliked them. I resented their diabolical ability to exploit my chauvinistic northern prejudices about them and shuck me repeatedly.
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Friday, March 28, 2014
Chaney Adrift; Senator, Shrimp Boy in Hot Water; Cancer Treatments; Jimmy Carter on Obamacare; God on Wind Machines; Pot Doc Disciplined; Fire Prevention Fee; Sunshine Week; Salmon Migrate by Truck
View ArticleOff The Record (Mar 26, 2014)
A PERSONAL INJURY LAWYER named Jonathan Hayes of Sacramento has filed a $100k-plus claim against Mendocino County for the injuries his client, Gregory Bergman, suffered from being shot by former...
View ArticleTHANKSGIVING COFFEE CO. LAUNCHES PROJECT TO HELP SAVE COFFEE FARMS FROM...
Fort Bragg, CA, March 24, 2014 – Last year, a group of staff members from Thanksgiving Coffee Company visited the farm of Alexa Marín Colindres, a member of the PRODECOOP Cooperative in Nicaragua. They...
View ArticleATTENTION TEDIUM CONNOISEURS!
Supervisors, Community Partners, and Interested Parties: The list of vacancies for County boards and commissions has been updated with new vacancies for the month of April. A complete list of all new...
View ArticleUKEFEST KICK-OFF ON FRIDAY, APRIL 11 AT COMMUNITY CENTER OF MENDOCINO
Enjoy a weekend celebrating the ukulele as a friendly and playful instrument, beginning with a Ukulele Variety Show and jam session at the Community Center of Mendocino. The UkeFest Kick-Off will start...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Saturday, March 29, 2014
5.1 Earthquake; Affordable Housing; Roadside Spraying; Ukiah Water Board Drama; Giants Finish Fourth; Richie & Vance; Pacifica in Chaos; Public Pension Plan Plan; Police Reports
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