Mendocino County Today: Sunday, June 22, 2014
CalTrans Desecration; Bypass Suspended; Goodbye Roanne Withers; Exciting Fire; Elk Inn Purchased; Catch of the Day; The Riots; AV Health Center Board Meeting; Burn Permits Suspended; Mendocino Theatre...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Monday, June 23, 2014
THE GIRLS of my youth never looked like this! Boonville is hosting the Sierra Nevada World Music Festival this weekend, and the town is teeming with half-clad rasta-babes. Or quarter-clad. Or, inside...
View ArticleCalTrans’“Notice of Permit Suspension”
The following link is a PDF copy of the “Notice of Permit Suspension” from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to the California Department of Transportation: WillitsBypassSuspend20JUN2014
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Tuesday, June 24, 2014
AS A CARAVAN of dusty Winnebagos pulled out of Boonville all morning Monday, carrying off the rasta brigades, we checked in with Deputy Walker for an assessment of the big event from the law...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Wednesday, June 25, 2014
Buckway Arrested; Negotiators Busy; Catch of the Day; Fan Removal; Navarro Trickle; Health Center Questions; Sick Screen; Copper Campbell; Deacons for Defense; Cause and Effect; Drought Legislation; Om...
View ArticleBird’s Eye View (June 25, 2014)
There is a rumor spreading around town that the location which was the former home of The Boonville Lodge in central Boonville is soon to re-open as an up-market shoe store. Apparently, property owner...
View ArticleLeave The Small Growers Alone
A new political action group that will advocate on behalf of local medical marijuana growers held its first public meeting Monday, June 16, at the Laytonville Grange. The leaders of the Mendocino...
View ArticleValley People (June 25, 2014)
THE GIRLS of my youth never looked like this! Boonville hosted the Sierra Nevada World Music Festival this weekend, as if you could have missed shoals of half-clad rasta-babes in central Boonville. Or...
View ArticleBoonville Baseball, 1950
However the new baseball season turns out, it won’t possibly match my favorite season of all time. That’s the season of 1950, the year that I, a 17-year-old shortstop not yet out of high school in San...
View ArticleThe Little Red Dress
It all started with a post on Facebook for my friends who couldn’t attend the Sierra Nevada World Music Festival. It was mostly about the ticket prices and scarcity of camping and lodging...
View ArticleOff the Record (June 25, 2014)
ROANNE WITHERS HAS DIED at age 61. A long-time environmental activist based for years in Fort Bragg, she died in her sleep at her Ukiah home sometime last Friday night. Roanne is survived by her son,...
View ArticleLetters (June 25, 2014)
I have received a report that the manager of Raley’s in Ukiah is hassling petitioners. Here is the report, followed by an explanation of the recent settlement with the County and changes in the...
View ArticleWho Shot Lorrie’s Finger Off?
Officer Craig Guydan left the Fort Bragg Police Department for Cotati over a month ago, but his work has not gone gently or quietly away. Between June 11th and June 18th two cases brought Guydan back...
View ArticleBypass Stopped — For Now
When it comes to large, earth-destroying projects of the sort rapidly unraveling this planet’s life support systems, efforts by corporations and nation-states to “remediate,” “mitigate,” or...
View ArticleIraq
Shortly before George W. Bush ordered the invasion of Iraq in 2003 to topple our former ally Saddam Hussein, a Sunni strong man, George invited a few learned English-speaking Iraqis to Washington to...
View ArticleThe Fox’s Lair
At dawn I’m in the grassy roadway just a few yards away from the Caspar cemetery, a peaceful and rustic spot surrounded by a venerable stand of Sitka spruce: the bluish, lichen-bearded grove briefly...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Thursday, June 26, 2014
AIM Comes to Willits; Another No-hitter; Judge Nelson Dies; Crime Week; 300 Berets; Take the I Out; Catch of the Day; All About Whistleblowers; OMinous
View ArticleLibrary Strategization
Second Round of Library Community Meetings to Be Held in July (Ukiah, Mendocino County, California) * The Mendocino County Library wants to hear from you! Two public meetings, designed to provide a...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Friday, June 27, 2014
THE STATE WATER BOARD, at its Tuesday, July 1st, meeting in Sacramento will consider emergency regulations “to ensure timely compliance with orders to stop diverting water to prevent harm to senior...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Saturday, June 28, 2014
County Budget; Public Transit, 1912; Tiresome Amusements; Rural Skills; Addressing Inequality; Populist Manifesto; Catch of the Day; Crime of the Day; Humco Rising; Living with Drones; Tunnels Bad;...
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