Mendocino County Today: Friday, July 18, 2014 (free today)
Six Candidates; Johnny Winter; Yokayo Biofuels; Jared Goldeneye; New Reservoir; Water Fines; Drought Emergency; Shelter Report; Catch of the Day; Growing Hazards; Collision Report; NDAA; Reggae Fight;...
View ArticleCloverdale TomatoFiesta
The Soil King Garden Center in Cloverdale is planning the first annual Cloverdale TomatoFiesta on Saturday, August 9, from 10: 00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. The event includes a tomato competition and also a...
View ArticleMays On Wood!
Working With Wood: Laura Mays talks on history of College of the Redwoods Fine Woodworking Program by Roberta Werdinger On Saturday, July 26, from 2 to 3 pm, Laura Mays, Director of the Fine...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Saturday, July 19, 2014
LAKE MENDOCINO is going, going, gone in about six weeks if Mendocino County’s futile leap at the centerfield wall to catch a last trickle is unsuccessful. SPEAKING TO GLENDA ANDERSON of the Press...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Sunday, July 20, 2014
JUSTINE FREDERIKSON’S story in Saturday’s Ukiah Daily Journal begins, “The Ukiah City Council did not vote on the future of the former post office mural this week, but most members supported staff...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Monday, July 21, 2014
THE BALO WINE JUGGERNAUT is grading the property at the Philo end of Anderson Valley Way at the north end of those three crater-like empty ponds just south of the Balo project. A call to Balo assurred...
View ArticleDustbowl Revival
Sundays in the Park Concerts, Sunday July 27th On Sunday, July 27th in Todd Grove Park at 6:00pm Fowler Auto & Truck Center, The City of Ukiah, KWNE-FM and MAX 93.5 are proud to present the fourth...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Tuesday, July 22, 2014
THE COUNTY remains mired in negotiations with County workers, including Sheriff’s Department deputies. The deputies, to put it gently, are unhappy. Because of short-staffing, deputies are working a lot...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Wednesday, July 23, 2014
Cop Stress; Anderson Valley Secrets; Israel/Palestine; Doc Loyalty; Operation Yurok; Caffrey Responds; Tweek n Ride; Research Library Expansion; Israel Protest; Shrinking Palestine; Catch of the Day;...
View ArticleValley People (July 23, 2014)
FAMED BLUES guitarist, Johnny Winter, died in Switzerland on Wednesday. Winter once appeared in Navarro where Dave Evans of the Navarro Store has put Anderson Valley's wide spot in the road on the big...
View ArticleOff the Record (July 23, 2014)
BOONVILLE REDEMPTION, the movie partly filmed here, doesn’t seem headed for blockbuster status. Even its on-line description is unpromising. “Thirteen year-old Melinda (Strike one! — any movie...
View ArticleThe Ketchup Kaper
“It was all over a bottle of ketchup — this alleged shooting — along with some missing cheese and beer,” Public Defender Linda Thompson told the jury. “Now, my client, Kathleen Woolsey, has had some...
View ArticleBird’s Eye View (July 23, 2014)
Pat Hulbert has been announced as The Grand Marshall at this year’s Mendocino County Fair in September. The Hulberts arrived in the Valley in the 1920s while Pat’s family on her mother’s side goes all...
View ArticleWillits Bypass Timeline
In Willits, many people have not taken kindly to the California Department of Transportation's asphalt imperialism, which entails spreading more than 140,000 dump truck loads of fill in Little Lake...
View ArticleHeaven & Hell
On their way to a matinee of the San Francisco Ballet, Roger and Susan must stand for the entire journey in a crowded subway car. They are wearing heavy coats on this chilly November day, though inside...
View ArticleLetters (July 23, 2014)
A Response to the Recent Grand Jury Report about Mendocino Animal Care Services: Having been a volunteer at the Mendocino County Animal Care Services Shelter in Ukiah for the past 8 years, I feel an...
View ArticleThe Battered Bastards of Baseball
Critics still argue about which book might qualify as the greatest American novel. Moby-Dick, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and numerous others have been put forth as candidates. The...
View ArticleNew Science Program At AV High
Anderson Valley High School (“AVHS”) is one of six high schools in Mendocino County selected earlier this year by Sonoma State University (“SSU”) to receive (a) professional development training for...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Thursday, July 24, 2014
Pinches Endorses Woodhouse; Attorney Wanted; Remembering Susan Keegan; Catch of the Day; Pounding Gaza; Radio Interview with Ray McGovern; DWR Billing Problems
View ArticleBarbara McNair’s Unsung Heroism
When Barbara McNair died in February of 2007, not a single obituary mentioned her role in bringing down the lawyer who effectively owned Erhard Seminar Training (est) and the pitchman himself, Werner...
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