Valley People (June 18, 2014)
THE BOONVILLE GRADUATION drew a large crowd for Anderson Valley, the largest I've seen. Children of Mexican immigrants made up a large majority of the graduates, and the Mexicans turned out in force....
View ArticleOff the Record (June 18, 2014)
COUNTY CEO Carmel Angelo has included a $45,000 remodeling project at the County Jail in the 2014-15 county budget. The re-do will house a dog grooming vocational program for female inmates: Allman: As...
View ArticleBird’s Eye View (June 18, 2014)
The AV Elementary School Art Show is currently on display at Lauren’s Restaurant in Boonville. Local artist Chris Bing has done a fine job teaching art this past school year and his creative display of...
View ArticleSimpson Lane Chivalry
Bryan Kann was so amped on methamphetamine that it would be whole days and many lost nights before he could sleep. And there was nothing at all to do but bounce endlessly around the house, waiting for...
View ArticleLetters (June 18, 2014)
I only met John Sakowicz once. It was sometime after Wall Street and the “investment bankers” had nearly bankrupted the country — and had put the big hurt on my people — and our meeting didn’t go well....
View ArticleFairgrounds Music Fest Returns
The third weekend in June is upon us, and for the past decade in Boonville that means the Sierra Nevada World Music Festival kicks off in the fairgrounds Friday evening and runs through Sunday evening....
View ArticleWater, Money & Mendo’s Fisheries
The old truism that California’s water “flows uphill toward power and money” is often literally true, but not always. The powerful and wealthy of Sonoma County, northern Marin County, and parts of...
View ArticleAppearances Are Reality
Earlier this month, the Mendocino County Grand Jury documented what they called “An Appearance of a Conflict of Interest in the adoption of the Mental Health Privatization contract.” “The 2013-2014...
View ArticleTakeover Complete
The takeover is complete, and by takeover I mean the takeover of our collective ability to distinguish reality from illusion. We have been thoroughly conquered and now voluntarily carry devices on our...
View ArticleA Nation of Speedfreaks Redux
Do you shudder at the sight of low-life trailer-trash crankheads driving around in their beat-up Camaros? Do you nod solemnly when one of the big tv news actors presents a piece on how methamphetamine...
View ArticleSee Black? Run Like Hell!
I want to inform your readers a little on how one gets busted by the feds, what the legal process is like and what life in federal prison is all about. I will not cover all that here now, but you can...
View ArticleHiking The Yolla Bolly (Part 2)
The whole trek would have proved relatively uneventful except for the last two hundred yards of the trail. I was in the lead of five other backpackers, returning to the trailhead. The hiker behind...
View ArticleHumCo Struggles to Maintain Services
Humboldt County is proposing what’s been described as a down-to-the-bone budget with a $2.7 million deficit and unless new revenue sources emerge, the situation will get worse in future years. The...
View ArticleDefibulators!
(Ed note: There is no truth to the rumor that Massive Heartattack will open for the Defibulators.) Sundays in the Park Presents ‘The Defibulators’ June 29th Ukiah, CA. -On Sunday, June 29th in Todd...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Thursday, June 19, 2014
Moorman Ruling Reversed; Ukiah Rat Shelter; Joel's No Gent; The Advertisers; Catch of the Day; Again and Again and Again; Imperial Hubris; Counteract the Bogus Energy
View ArticleMy Life In Mendonesia
Watermelons are setting fruit as temperatures finally climb into the lower nineties. This year I planted a new hybrid seedless variety from Johnny’s Select Seeds out of Maine, the seedless Moon &...
View ArticleTerrible Jobs, Part 1: Washing Oxygen Tents
In 1962, I needed an after-school job. I had turned 17 and wanted my own car, something my family could not afford to buy for me. Alas, I had few marketable skills and no experience except for...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Friday, January 20, 2014
Hometown Hero; Jailhouse Reads; Catch of the Day; Calfire Burn Bans; Sleepy Juror; Bookshop Feelings; Bring Back the Draft; Garage Sales; Library Closures; Angry Gut Radio; Hilary's Haughty Hyperbole
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Saturday, June 21, 2014
UKIAH NEWS in brief: Phil Baldwin will run again for the Ukiah City Council. He also presently functions as mayor. Red Phil takes a lot of abuse from the more primitive sectors of inland opinion, but...
View ArticleArcheological Site Known to CalTrans Destroyed Again
In the latest bad news for Indigenous people whose cultural resources have been horribly impacted by CalTrans’ Willits Bypass, Big Orange’s construction crews have damaged another known archeological...
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