Mendocino County Today: Tuesday, April 8, 2014
Like Ducks to Water; Planning Department's Year in Review; Marijuana Price Index; Smart Car Tipping; Narcs Visit Doc; For Bartleby; Report from Indiana; Warren Takes Aim; Solartopian Revolution; Police...
View ArticleUpcoming Changes to Our Print Edition
AS PRINT NEWSPAPERS pass into the frenetic oblivion of the internet — the Newark Star-Ledger is the latest large-circulation paper to radically downsize — the AVA is also poised to make fundamental...
View ArticleMendocino County Mental Health Board (MHB) April 16, 2014
Mendocino County Mental Health Board (MHB) April 16, 2014 The MHB meeting will be held on Wednesday, April 16 at 10:00 a.m. in Ukiah at Mendocino County Social Services, Big Sur Conference Room,...
View ArticleOops, Library Open, or One of Them But We Might Change Our Mind Again. Oh...
The County of Mendocino is retracting the Press Release issued 4-4-14 describing the anticipated closure schedule for Sunday, April 20. Please see the attached updated Press Release regarding the Ukiah...
View ArticleSteven Bates Trio!
Due to popular demand and peer pressure Mendocino Stories & Music Series has added another event to the Spring season. Having the choice of booking a Steven Bates Trio isn’t such a tough decision....
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Wednesday, Apr 9, 2014
Spy Rock Tumble; Judges' New Courthouse; Richardson's Third DUI; Being Republican; Four Blood Moons; Big Birthday Fire; Bancroft Book Reception; Revolution?; Fremont Book Review; Ukiah Signage; Prison...
View ArticleValley People (Apr 9, 2014)
UNCONFIRMED RUMORS say Captain Rainbow and Yvonne Dunton will soon be back in the Valley. They’d been working in an ethnically tense region of Myanmar, formerly Burma, when they inadvertently became...
View ArticleOff The Record (Apr 9, 2014)
WELL, I’LL BE DAMNED. If Geo W. Bush had gone to art school and moved to Mendocino 40 years ago, the world would have been spared much carnage, and Mendocino County would have enjoyed one more seagull...
View ArticlePardon The Interruption
Charles ‘Max’ Sperling of Willits was facing a number of charges last week, and that was before he picked up a DUI driving to court one morning. But things seemed to be going his way until they...
View ArticleTrouble Sleeping? Here, Take A Re-Zone
Last week we reported the County’s difficulties in rezoning a minimum number of Ukiah area acres to satisfy a court-ordered settlement agreement with Legal Services of Northern California. Legal...
View ArticleBird’s Eye View (Apr 9, 2014)
Is it just me or is anyone else having trouble sleeping without the comforting roar of the wineries’ frost protector fans over this past week?
View ArticleHumCo Rejects Reggae On River Attendance Increase
Troubled by security issues, the county’s Planning Commission has held the line on attendance at this year’s Reggae on the River festival. The Mateel Community Center, the festival’s operator, asked...
View ArticleCaught With Their Pumps Down
Finally some clarity. After years of scratching my head in bewilderment at the seeming ignorance, greed and hypocrisy of both the wine industry and the general public that so lavishly supports it, I...
View ArticleLetters (Apr 9, 2014)
To the rude mountain biker at Lake Mendocino last Sunday. My horseback riding partner and I were riding down a very narrow steep trail on the east side of the Lake.
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Thursday, April 10, 2014
Museum Job Cuts; Ukiah's Frequent Fliers; Zelig Gets Jumped; SF Deemed Least Country; All is Truth; Bitties with Lyme; Reagan's Legacy; Big Oil Rules; Confronting the Navy; Police Reports
View ArticleFreedom On Facebook
“Writer’s block” – A euphemism for having nothing to say. It happens. But I was thinking about a piece on Freedom and Liberty, a couple of terms that have been hijacked, co-opted by the far right. The...
View ArticleChunnel Of Love
Dear Dr. Zack, Please help me settle an argument with my girlfriend. We agree that the two sure signs of life are irritability and the ability to reproduce. She says a man who can’t get it up might as...
View ArticleUnderlying Problem
I walk to town most every day rather than drive my truck for the same reason I decided in 1967 to create a life for myself independent of automobiles, something I’ve managed to do for most of the last...
View ArticleSamantha
On Thursday, February 14th— Valentine’s Day, about three weeks after my article, “El Úndecimo Mandamiento” appeared in The Anderson Valley Advertiser, Samantha called. It was the first time I’d spoken...
View ArticleA Second Chance—25 Years Later
A “Second Chance,” after 25 years of absence and silence, was recently offered Shepherd by Assumpta. Her email arrived from Europe to his farm. We met in Barcelona in 1988 and have had no contact...
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