Mendocino County Today: Jan 11, 2013
A NEW and not widely noted one percent state tax on wood products is now in effect, much to the chagrin of retailers who say they won’t collect enough of it to pay their costs gathering it. Adding to...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: January 12, 2013
A CAREFUL READING of Sheriff Allman’s “Out There In The Woods,” the full account of the 2011 manhunt for double killer Aaron Bassler, caused me to wonder why the first wave of police on-scene not far...
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Mendocino County Today: January 13, 2013
MENDOCINO COUNTY Child Protective Services failed to check the legal history of Wilson Lee Tubbs before they placed the infant girl, Emerald, with the Tubbs family. The child subsequently died of a...
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Mendocino County Today: January 14, 2013
Snyder WE WERE SADDENED to learn of the death of George Snyder who, for years, covered the Northcoast for the San Francisco Chronicle. As graceful in person as his stylish prose, Mr. Snyder is survived...
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Mendocino County Today: January 15, 2013
MENDOCINO COUNTY’S premier deadbeats, Ukiah Sativa Morrison and girlfriend, Callie Ashe, applied for temporary restraining orders against two Hopland women who made the mistake of letting Morrison and...
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Mendocino County Today: January 16, 2013
Moreno MAN BEATER OF THE WEEK: Repeat offender, Veronica Moreno of Ukiah. Ms. Moreno has smacked Mr. Moreno before, and now she’s gone and done it again. Yo! Dude! Don’t you know by now that when...
View ArticleWhen Love Has Fled, Better Let It Flee
John A. McCullough is looking at 22-plus years in prison for the kidnapping and battery of his former girl friend, a pretty young woman maybe 20-years-old. I won’t name her in this report at the...
View ArticlePension Plan Blues
During a routine discussion of the County’s investment policy last Tuesday, Supervisor Dan Hamburg, and newly elected Board Chair, repeated his concern that Mendocino County places its money with...
View ArticleThe Insanity Of The Willits Bypass
As with so many places in the American West that have been struck by the flash-flood of capitalist development since the mid-19th century, that which is most absent from the contemporary landscape of...
View ArticleValley People
THERESA AVILA has been squatting at the Navarro Store for months, but she rightly points out that she’s not homeless, she’s landless. The poor thing isn’t alone in being landless, but that’s hardly...
View ArticleOff The Record
CORRECTION: In last week’s excellent account of the KZYX board meeting by Sheila Dawn Tracy, it was our editorial error that stated board minutes had been prepared by station manager John Coate. The...
View ArticleBird’s Eye View
Greetings one and all – if you are sitting comfortably then I shall begin. Long-time Anderson Valley Animal Rescue volunteer, Jim Teresinski, is turning to Valley folks for their help. Jim is the...
View ArticleSports Notes
Last weekend the Atlanta Falcons defeated the Seattle Seahawks 30-28. The San Francisco 49ers defeated the Green Bay Packers 45-31. The 49ers will play the Falcons in Atlanta next Sunday at noon. The...
View ArticleA Kraken Awakes
Ed note: This book wasn’t born in Boonville but it was birthed here on the Miner-Anderson Ranch east of town. * * * The big book of 2013, just published by Knopf, is “American Tropic” by Thomas...
View ArticleMaking A Life, But Not A Living
Oxnard — Lucrecia Camacho comes from Oaxaca, and speaks Mixteco, one of the indigenous languages and cultures of Mexico that were hundreds of years old before the arrival of the Spaniards. Today she...
View ArticleFour Hundred Thousand
“I’ve got all the money I’ll ever need, if I die by four o’clock.” — Henny Youngman Do you earn $400,000 of taxable income in a year? Have you ever earned $400,000 in a single year? Do you have friends...
View ArticleAnderson Valley Foodshed News
This is a reminder that our Farmers and Eaters Roundtable will be this Thursday January 17 at the AV Senior/Community Center at the southern end of Boonville. The program for the evening is as follows:...
View ArticleCow Mountain
What is called the Cow Mountain area is roughly from Scotts Valley in Lake County to the mountains east of the Ukiah Valley and from Blue lakes on the north to the Hopland-Lakeport highway on the...
View ArticleThe Goldeneye Diaries
I can’t believe how cool the working environment has been this harvest. It seems like all of our twisted personalities are not only welcomed but encouraged to take things to a more exaggerated level....
View ArticleRiver Views
January 16th marks 225 years since Thomas Jefferson wrote, “Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not...
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