Goodbye Officer Guydan
Officer Guydan, who spent almost two full years on the Fort Bragg police force, was the subject of numerous formal and informal complaints by citizens and the Coast Copwatch group (I am a member). At...
View ArticleValley People (June 4, 2014)
At 5:16am the Boy Scout Camp, Navarro, reported a “combative, hallucinogenic (sic) patient. A 500-person “juggling fair” was underway at the Camp. We suspect, however, a rave whose alleged 500...
View ArticleThe Politics of the World’s Most Hydrologically Altered Landmass
California is the most hydrologically altered landmass on the planet, a distinction it first attained in the early-mid-20th century. The Hoover Dam (on the Colorado River), which began operation in...
View ArticleLetters (June 4, 2014)
Every month to me is Mental Health month, every time another mass killing of innocent people, as in Santa Barbara recently, mental illness is the first thing that comes to my mind. Not guns, not...
View ArticleTraveling
We were down on Big River Beach a few days ago, the weather Hawaiian, naked babies frolicking in the sand, the air scented with barbecued lamb and chicken, the river sparkling, the breezes gentle. And...
View ArticleNot In Kansas Anymore
Can you imagine your young kids setting off to see the world, with no real plans, little money, and no phone or internet access? “See you in a few months or years, I dunno”? Today’s parents would...
View ArticleChristmas Valley
Trish, Jeff and I are on a hike and we’ve just arrived atop the crooked, molar-toothed rim of a mile-round, 350-foot-tall basaltic tuff ring called Fort Rock, which is Christmas Valley’s literal...
View ArticleSchool Days
When the Newman family first came to Anderson Valley in the late 1950s, it was as part-timers; most weekends during autumn, winter and spring, and all summer when my parent’s summer camp near Philo, El...
View ArticleMental Health Board/Services Act Joint Meeting
The MHB/MHSA joint meeting will be held on Wednesday, June 18 at 10:00 a.m. in Ukiah, Public Health, Conference Room 1, located at 1120 So. Dora St. The meeting is intended for members of the public...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Thursday, June 5, 2014
Election Thoughts; Local Deputies; Quarterback Money; In Memory of Radio; Twelve Pages; Shut Up And Pay; Cultural Character; Coasting Toward Zero; Catch of the Day; Police Calls; DA Explains Prop 215
View ArticleThe Resilient Homestead
Sanctuary Forest News: 1. Water, Fire & Soils 2. Scholarships Announced Join Sanctuary Forest on Saturday, June 14th for the Resilient Homestead: Water, Fire & Soils hike. Led by Kyle Keegan...
View ArticleGo Grey!
Greywater Systems Design, Installation, Uses, and Permitting Mendocino County Resource Conservation District and Mendocino College Offer Free Workshop on Greywater Design, Installation and Permitting....
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Friday, June 6, 2014
Trouble in Covelo; Comptche Correction; Moderate Niño; Political Despair; Cloverdale Eateries; Catch of the Day; Police Calls; Huffman Cosponsors; Laytonville Fire; May 1968; Journalistic Storytelling;...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Saturday, June 7, 2014 (free today)
Sisyphus Hotel; MCOE Ripped; Vineyard Wages; Bad Movie; Airplane Crash; Hendy Volunteers; Don't Jump; Greatest Recording; Marijuana Measure; Breaking Promises; Dirty Lyrics; Dog Day; Catch of the Day;...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Sunday, June 8, 2014
Holstine Memorial; Edu Crooks; Postal Delays; Election Aftermath; Bus People; Catch of the Day; Pet Pot; Double Crown; The Mob; Protesting; Mixed Messages; Emerald Triangle; Skin in the Game; Shit...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Monday, June 9, 2014
Hot Weather; Revelle & Rainville; Gizmo Addicts; Supes Discuss Wind Machines; Grad Parties; Hey! Taxi!; Catch of the Day; Police Calls; Big Oil Buying Votes
View ArticleWoven Worlds
Please join the Mendocino County Museum and friends for the Opening Reception of Woven Worlds, a new, permanent exhibit celebrating the Native American heritage of Mendocino County. The reception will...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Tuesday, June 10, 2014
Sanders Trial Set; BOS Budget Talk; Call the Dogs; Boonville Farmers’ Market; Creep Show; War Criminals; Mendocino Art Show; Imagine Maine; Catch of the Day; Baseball Canto; This is Now; The Career...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Wednesday, June 11, 2014
Teacher Tenure; Hwy 128 Closed; Catch of the Day; Domestic Altercation; Police Calls; Culture of Violence; Overcrowding Release; Prison Problems; Noise Meeting Report; Video Bust; Blast from the Past;...
View ArticleValley People (June 11, 2014)
YEAH, IT WAS HOT. 106 in Boonville by Sunday afternoon. Same Monday, and hot most of the week but not hundred-degree hot. My dahlias fried on their stems, the hydrangeas were wilted-to-weeping, the...
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