‘He’s Not Heavy Father, He’s My Brother’
After digging out of the Big Snow of ’75 I checked in at the Mendocino County unemployment office in Ukiah because my six months of $31 a week had run out. I was asked about my last job, and told them...
View ArticleMisery Ridge
Abel is over from Portland. It’s a couple of hours past sunrise and, along with Trisha and Jeff, we’re standing atop a fat fingertip of rimrock overlooking a perfect horseshoe bend in the lower Crooked...
View ArticleMoney in Politics
Last week, in the McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission case, Chief Justice John Roberts wrote the opinion for the narrow (5-4) majority that “Money in politics may at times seem repugnant to some,...
View ArticleThe Bondage of Bad Taste & the Bottom Line
Rather than heading south with the droves of springbreak-bound students fleeing the endless winter of Upstate New York, I spent a couple hours last week in a local venue at least somewhat warmer than...
View ArticlePrison Tornadoes
We can't see the city of Decatur from inside this prison, but at 9:30pm, we hear the city's sirens wailing in the distance, alarms that signal the worst disasters: floods, fires, plagues of locusts,...
View ArticlePeter Matthiessen, 1927 – 2014
I met Peter Matthiessen once when the Friends of the Library were selling books at the Koret Auditorium in 2001. Matthiessen was featured speaker at a program in the “Writers of the Land” series...
View ArticleDRIPS: Free Workshops on Rainwater Conservation
Mendocino County Resource Conservation District and Mendocino College team up with local water experts for practical solutions to drought Ukiah — Have you been wondering how to save water during the...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Friday, April 11, 2014
Murder Trial Stays; Bus Accident; Property Abatements; Ersatzbier; Where is Colin?; Considerate Thieves; Our New Byzantium; Annoying Math Teacher; CEO Gets Mixed Signals; Occupy's Manifesto; Here In...
View ArticleOquawka To Host Bioneers Co-founder
Janie Rezner’s guest on Women’s Voices, KZYX, April 21, 7 pm PT will be Nina Simons, co-founder of Bioneers, and co-editor of “Moonrise: The Power of Women Leading from the Heart.” Currently Nina’s...
View ArticleSaturday, April 12th at the Formerly Winter, now Spring Boonville Farmers Market
Anderson Valley Community Farm: Pasture-raised eggs, holiday pork and lamb roasts, USDA pork chops and lamb leg steaks, membrillo quince fruit candies, braising mix, salad mix, beets, parsley, spring...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Saturday, April 12, 2014
Domestic Violence; Love In It Waiting; Frisco Coyotes; Stay with 12; Sheep Shearing Info; Miami SVU Investigation; Forever Flinching; Meeting with God; Follow the Rules, Mateel; The CCC & CETA;...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Sunday, April 13, 2014
Package Contempo; Obamas Taxed at 20%; Spring; Police Reports; Garden's Gate Revisited; Protecting Shareholder Rights
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Monday, April 14, 2014
Streams Gone to Pot; Hal Ling Obit; Weekend Clinic Passes; Chron on Mendo; Who's Zooyen Who; Tulo Too Lazy; Mr Smith Goes to Jail; San Francisco, 1967; Media Criticism
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Tuesday, April 15, 2014
Lunar Eclipses; Wilkinson Murder Conviction; Ukiah Seeks Palace Receivership; Navarro Tweakers; Idiotic Political Conversations; Ukiah Youth Program Ends; Little River Elder Center Closes; Cannabis...
View ArticleChair Auction or Auction Chairs?
Winesong 2014 Announces Honorary Auction Chairs Joseph F. Harbison, III and Patricia A. Harbison To Lead Stellar Cast of Participants A Benefit For The Mendocino Coast Hospital Held On The Breathtaking...
View ArticleHe Is Risen!
Community Easter “Son” Rise Service Not at sunrise, but at 8 AM There will be a Community Christian Easter Church Service and all are invited Time: 8 AM Date: Easter morning, 4-20-2014 Place: In front...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Wednesday, April 16, 2014
Local Banking; Vocational Education; Bogut's Bad Night; Doobie Obit; A Service; Modern Medicine; Domestic Box Cutting; Education Fundraiser; Hollyhocks in the Fog; Big Oil in Sacramento
View ArticleYahoo For YES Camp!
For those of you that don't already know about YES Camp it is a one week summer camp for young people ages 14 to 19 years old that introduces them to all aspects of emergency response: Emergency...
View ArticleLetters (Apr 16, 2014)
Anderson Valley Winegrowers Association, neighborhood bullies indeed. I always thought “white noise” was listening to Rush Limbaugh or Bill O'Reilly.
View ArticleLions Club Breakfast & Easter Egg Hunt
Don’t forget the big Easter Breakfast which will follow the Easter Egg Hunt at the fairgrounds lawn area from 8-11am on Sunday, April 20 to benefit the Anderson Valley Teen Center. Adults $12, children...
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