Metaphoric Playoffs
The Houston Rockets made the playoffs this year and I’m particularly interested in the Rockets because Jeremy Lin is on that team. I am fascinated by Lin’s career and what I think his experience...
View ArticleBird’s Eye View (Apr 30, 2014)
I like the newspaper’s new format and although it may initially mean a little more work for the Major, in the future it will actually give him plenty of opportunity to do Mr. Anderson’s laundry in the...
View ArticleValley People (Apr 30, 2014)
JORGE CERVANTES, 49, of Philo died Thursday afternoon a little after 4pm when the car he was riding in suddenly veered off Highway 128 at the bend in the road at Mile Marker 32 on Highway 128 above the...
View ArticleOfficer Cat v. Dr. Mouse
No matter how law-abiding you are, you are likely to tighten your grip on the wheel when a police interceptor appears in your rearview mirror. If you don’t, you are too medicated to be driving in the...
View ArticleOff The Record (Apr 30, 2014)
A NORTH COUNTY coalition of environmental groups has sued Mendocino County for issuing a permit to Caltrans to move dirt from a site the enviros claim is polluted. Caltrans wants to haul 900,000 cubic...
View ArticleLetters (Apr 30, 2014)
Recently, after 39 years of coaching basketball at Ukiah High, the coach was, in my opinion, let go because players and their parents spoke to the principal. This is usually because they feel they...
View ArticleWho Uses What? Research & The River (Part 3)
In the 1970s I planted and managed a five-acre overhead sprinkler irrigated vineyard, Gewuerztraminer, on the old Nunn/Maddux ranch flat across the Navarro from where Lazy Creek meets the River.
View ArticleTour of “Artists Look Back”—May 3 at Grace Hudson Museum
On Saturday, May 3, from 2 to 3 pm, a tour will be offered of the Grace Hudson Museum’s current exhibit, “Artists Look Back: Mendocino County Art Association Turns 60.” The tour is free with Museum...
View ArticleUC Cooperative Extension Hosts Cottage Food Operations Workshop Series
…for farmers interested in producing value-added products University of California Cooperative Extension (UCCE) will present a hands-on workshop series at the UCCE Mendocino County office in Ukiah on...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: May 1, 2014
IRS Busts Ukiah Restaurateurs; Whither Mendo Green?; Police Calls; Anthem for Doomed Youth; Medical Alcohol; Unintentional Satire; Spring; Escape from Alcatraz; Military Buildup in Asia; Committee...
View ArticleMy All-Too-Brief Career as a Male Escort
Uh-oh; any time Gordon called me it tended to mean trouble brewing. He was a man-about town with “no identifiable means of support” how lived high on multiple hogs. People speculated he was a drug...
View ArticleBear Valley History Mystery 2014
So it started out to be a field trip to Bear Valley on the Lake/Colusa County line north off Highway 20 to look at wildflowers. Load mom, daughter and grandson in the Subaru, pack a picnic lunch and...
View ArticleMedic!
My years in Anderson Valley, from the late 1950s through the late 1980s, included a fair share of medical issues for my parents, my siblings and myself. When my parents’ summer camp, El Rancho Navarro,...
View ArticleMy Own Escape from Alcatraz
In November of 1969 three boats took members of twenty tribes from all over the country to occupy Alcatraz, reclaiming it as “Indian land and demanding fairness and respect for Indian Peoples.” The...
View ArticleWho Cares for the Mentally Ill?
On March 26, 2012, David Kyle Miller was arrested by Fort Bragg police officers for “refusing or failing to leave land, real property, or structure of another, not open to the public.” In plain words,...
View ArticlePut The Brakes On Motorcycle Collisions
SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Fatal collisions involving motorcyclists have been increasing in California over the past few years. In an effort to change this disturbing trend, the California Highway Patrol...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Friday, May 2, 2014
Local Water; DA Report Card; The Right to Sleep; Mendocino College Lockdown; Police Reports; Tardy County Postings; Molest Case Plea Bargain; Koogle Boondoggle Free; Happiness is Simple; The Urge to...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Saturday, May 3, 2014
Statement to Supes; Denti-Cal Returns; Enough with Carrillo; Right to Privacy; Hell of a World; Recommended Reading; Meth Source Mystery; Police Calls; Uncomradely Behavior; Heat; Sleeping in London;...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Sunday, May 4, 2014
The Willits Weekly; County Labor Relations; Chris Diaz is Back; Perjury and Fraud; Water Fees in Mendocino; Police Calls; Twain on Portraiture; Big Oil Pumping Money into Sacramento
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Monday, May 5, 2014
DEPARTMENT OF SODDEN THOUGHT. Seems from here that the County’s Right to Farm ordinance clearly prohibits farmers from introducing new nuisances. The ordinance was enacted to protect farmers from...
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