Mendocino County Today: Tuesday, May 6, 2014
HUGE WEEKEND in Boonville for the Beer Fest on Saturday and an archery event down the road at the Jim Hill Ranch, Yorkville. A beer-drinking crowd estimated at somewhere between five and seven thousand...
View ArticleWildfire Awareness Week
…Declared in California for May 4-10 CAL FIRE Encourages Wildfire Preparedness & Prevention Sacramento — Drought conditions have led to a significant increase in wildfire activity and to ensure...
View ArticleVote By Mail (Absentee) Ballots Available
Vote By Mail (absentee) Ballots were mailed out to those voters on Monday, May 5, 2014 and will be available in the County Clerk’s Office, for the GUBERNATORIAL PRIMARY Election to be conducted on JUNE...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Wednesday, May 7, 2014
Meet the Candidates; Doctor Pills Bound Over; Police Calls; Lack of Consequences; Conversation with Sandra Rubin
View ArticleThe Good News (And Bad)
Jesus Christ has made a rare appearance in the Mendocino County Courthouse. He’d been living a fairly unremarkable life in Ukiah, especially considering who He is, disguised as John Francis Sullivan...
View ArticleBird’s Eye View (May 7, 2014)
Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably then I shall begin. With space at a premium in the “New AVA,” many columns are to be a little shorter for now, even one as popular as this one. Go...
View ArticleOff The Record (May 7, 2014)
JUST THE OTHER DAY, I got a flier from Dentist Wood for Assembly. His flier was almost identical to the one I got from Mike McGuire for State Senate. Like McGuire, Wood is depicted in action as a warm,...
View ArticleValley People (May 7, 2014)
IT’S BEEN AWHILE since the Anderson Valley produced an Eagle Scout. I believe Norman Clow was an Eagle Scout and I believe Austin Clow, Norman’s son may have been another. AFTER AN OVER-LONG time with...
View ArticleLetters (May 7, 2014)
As I slumber high atop my ridge in the blissfully warm early spring morning, doors and windows open to allow the outside in, I am awakened by an all too familiar sound. You gotta be kidding me!...
View ArticleCesar Chavez: When Your Guru Goes Gaga
Once upon a time, members of my generation broke free and created what was labeled a “counter culture.” Because the surrounding culture was not living up to our young ideals, we began creating our own...
View ArticleTaste
Years before the dawn of tweeting and texting, I ran a summer writing program for high school kids who wanted to become professional writers. The teachers I hired were accomplished, open-minded,...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Thursday, May 8, 2014
IS DA EYSTER ready for prime time? The LA Times and the Wall Street Journal will soon be in Ukiah to talk to the DA about his innovative marijuana prosecution policy. The policy is legal, as Mendo...
View ArticleThe Wilds of Ten Mile
The final song on the Eagles’ Hotel California album is called, “The Last Resort,” and Don Henley’s closing line says, “You call some place paradise, kiss it goodbye.” At the risk of invoking that...
View ArticleResearch And The River (Part 4)
One of the ways this reporter has lived the Navarro River is visiting its swimming holes on those steamy hundred degree days in August when there’s nowhere else in the Valley to be after 11 AM. Bobby...
View ArticlePot Law Chaos Confab
“Chaos” is how Julia Carrera, consultant to a new medical marijuana trade group, described the state of current marijuana laws. At a workshop in Laytonville Saturday on the 2014 growing season,...
View ArticleRaising More Than Kids
When Jay and I met in 1997, we were attending a large urban college in Denver. We were completing Bachelor of Science degrees in Environment Science, a very new program at the time. It was essentially...
View ArticleThe San Francisco JAZZ Center
The SF JAZZ Center opened its doors little more than a year ago in San Francisco’s once seedy Hayes Valley, a place now bustling with boutiques and restaurants. Come evening and concert time, there are...
View ArticleProblems at the Anderson Valley Health Center
Residents of Anderson Valley: For those of you who don’t know me, my name is Eric Arbanovella. My wife Cindy works as a Nurse Practitioner at the Anderson Valley Health Center (AVHC). I am a...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Friday, May 9, 2014
Noise Meeting Notes; Our Changing Climate; Monkey Parking in SF; Programmer's Code at KZYX; Mendocino County Democrats; Riprap; SNWMF Master of Ceremonies; Hemp to the Rescue?
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Saturday, May 10, 2014 (free today)
KZYX Evening News; Huffman on Contrails; Voter's Guide; America; Navarro Painting & Sculpture; Fort Mason Poetry; Police Calls and Reports; Hawaiian Adultery; Point Arena Plastic Bags; Frisco Class...
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