The Trumpet of Miles Davis
It was in that Paris of the spring in the 1960s, in the Latin Quarter, whose recently watered down streets in the early hours of morning smelled of freshly baked baguettes and croissants, when I...
View ArticleSoCo Pot Doc’s Successes
One of the nation’s first licensed medical doctors to treat patients with cannabis spoke to a packed house at the Laytonville Garden Club on June 15 about the remarkable results he’s had treating...
View ArticleDeacons for Defense: Black Armed Resistance
This week marks the 50th anniversary of “Freedom Summer” and the murder by Mississippi Ku Kluxers of three young civil rights volunteers, James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and “Mickey” Schwerner. The triple...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Friday, 4th of July, 2014
Butts Fire; County Sleazeballs; PA Field Station; Knopp Gone; Attention, Diverters; Hitler Rents; Fire Fighting; Catch of the Day; Waldorf Magic; Never the Same; Broadband Money; Farm School; Geology...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Saturday, July 5, 2014
Outpatient Nation; Massey v Blankfort; Water for Wine; Catch of the Day; Wholesale Suicide; Useless Board; Americans Dreaming; Fourth of July at Santa Ynez; Tory Revenge
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Sunday, July 6, 2014
Immigrants Against Immigration; Catch of the Day; I Want You to Know One Thing; Search Phrase of the Day; Two Progressive Candidates; A Big Easy Fourth
View ArticleBlack Oak Down
A loud, crashing sound startles my young farm-hand Emily Danler awake in the dark of the night. She camps out in order to start picking berries at sun-up. My dog, inside, barks. After a...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Monday, July 7, 2014 (free today)
Ed Kowas Dead; Styrofoam Ban; Senior Trustee; Town Beautification; Liquid Ag; Lake Mendocino; Hire Me; Drinking While Driving; Bad News; Opium Smokers; Mendo Wit; Catch of the Day; Ukiah Gunslinger;...
View ArticleBREAKING: Willits Bypass Project to Go Into Suspension
On June 20, 2014, the US Army Corps of Engineers suspended Caltrans’ permit to construct the Willits Bypass Project. The costs to keep contractor crews on standby and other delay costs have added an...
View ArticleElk Fire to Host 10th Annual BBQ
The Elk Volunteer Fire Department invites you to cool down at the coast at its 10th annual Summer BBQ to be held Saturday, July 26, from noon to 4 p.m. at the Greenwood Community Center on Highway 1 in...
View ArticleWould Wood?
Driftwood sculptures explore possibilities of wood Family Fun event ties in with “Growth Rings” exhibit by Roberta Werdinger Children and adults will have a chance to work with their own small piece of...
View ArticlePresenting the 5th Annual Not-So-Simple Living Fair
with a focus on “LIVING WITH DROUGHT” by Jen Burnstad The 2014 Not-So-Simple Living Fair promises to be the best ever! Friday through Sunday, July 25-27, at the Mendocino County Fairgrounds in Anderson...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Tuesday, July 8, 2014
ED KOWAS is gone, dead of a heart attack at 73. His talk show on KMFB out of Mendocino was a must-listen for years, and continued to be a must-listen after Ed returned to the Coast after a stay in the...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Wednesday, July 9, 2014
Public Defenders; Gelhaus Not Charged; Fugitive on Bicycle; Catch of the Day; Chronic Liars; Working Overtime; Appreciating Roger; Weed County; Men's Fashion; Dylan Songs; Food Money; Living Dead; WTF...
View ArticleYour Call Is Important To Us
Funny how, in the current national rapture of techno-narcissism, it is harder than ever to do something that for generations used to be as simple as pie: to get somebody on the telephone. It’s...
View ArticleLetters (July 9, 2014)
I think it is outrageous that the AV Health Care Center has suspended the dispensary of medications. This is a serious deterioration of its services. What is this useless Board of Directors thinking?
View ArticleAnother One
Another wifebeater was in court this week. There seem to be armies of them out there. Used to be the woman’s male relatives took care of the beater. Anymore, it’s one more unhappy task for the cops....
View ArticleThe Mayfest Affair
Ithaca, New York — Come mid-May in the Finger Lakes of central New York the landscape transforms itself as if overnight. Little more than a month ago there was ice on the Lake Cayuga and there was...
View ArticleBird’s Eye View (July 9, 2014)
We are beginning to see an increase in the annual visits to the Valley of those fast-driving tourists, particularly ‘Mr. Convertible Sports Car’ in his mid-60s with the 20-Something Blonde in the...
View ArticleMendo Mental Health Is Nuts
What’s even more shady than the “appearance” of a conflict of interest solidly documented by the recent Grand Jury report on the County’s mental health privatization? The ongoing conflict of interest...
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