Preaching The Truth (Patrick Ford, Part 4)
Author’s Note: For the first time in over seven years, the Ford brothers — Mark, Patrick, and Robben — will share the same stage — and it will be in their home town of Ukiah at Sundays in the Park,...
View ArticleWhatever Happened to the Old House Piano?
In our present digital age many once-beloved pianos are junked rather than sold, as a trying NY Times video of a couple years ago unsparingly dramatizes. Yet in spite of its declining status, the piano...
View ArticleLocal Folks (Part 1)
Although I have been writing articles about my time in Anderson Valley from the late 1950s to the late 1980s for more than two years, I have been reluctant to say much about those who lived in the...
View ArticleHoney Oil Production Explodes In Mendocino
Last month in Ukiah, Wayne Briley stood in front of the board of supervisors waving a hash oil extractor, an empty butane canister and some other butane hash oil (BHO) making paraphernalia, explaining...
View ArticleOff With The Bandages, In With The Band
We are all looking forward to our FUNdraiser on Sunday, August 3rd, where we can celebrate our fantastic community and support Mark and Charlie and their families. Thankfully, we can see light at the...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Friday, July 25, 2014
Forgotten People; Geyserville Truth; The Deserters; Two-Hour Execution; Mendocino College; Supes in Covelo; Input Here; Ukiah Chemists; Catch of the Day; Crackpot Wisdom; Disproportionate Force;...
View ArticleMax Dashu!
Janie Rezner’s guest on Women’s Voices, KZYX, August 4 at 7pm PT, will be scholar Max Dashu, who has researched global women’s history and cultural studies, and whose legendary Archives of Suppressed...
View ArticleSustainable Ag 116
Mendocino College is offering a new class on sustainable farming. Agriculture 116 (Fall 2014): Sustainable Agricultural Systems with Rain Tenaqiya, permaculture designer and author of West Coast Food...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Saturday, July 26, 2014
Hot Week; Dry Times; Newspaper Turnips; River Gone; Dangerous Literature; WPA Mural; Politicians; Catch of the Day; Enemy Radio; Gaza 2009; The Gatekeepers; Federal Buzzkill; Water Waste; Five Bells
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Sunday, July 27, 2014 (free today)
Terrorism at Home; Navarro Algae; AVHC Board Agenda; Music Director Needed; A Girl; Light Cries Foul; Keyboard Shortcuts; Print On; Catch of the Day; Gualala Demonstration; Oily Business Practices
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Monday, July 28, 2014
Goat Herding; Before Krukow; Early Acorns; Elsie Whipple; Suicide Net; Shower Bus; Verbal Abuse; Humco Squatters; Israel’s Attack; Humco Weed Events; Measure Arrh; Red Abalone; Catch of the Day
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Tuesday, July 29, 2014
Springs Fire; Berry Nightmare; Manbeat Epidemic?; KZYX Issues; Ramblin' Jack; Collins v Heilig; Israeli Impunity; Craig Contemplates Cali; Capturing Moisture; Free Money; Gualala Demonstration; County...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Wednesday, July 30, 2014
THE BERRY FAMILY MATTER was the subject of two court sessions today in front of Judge Cindee Mayfield. We hope to have a report on what happened tomorrow, and will post it pronto. COMPLICATING CHILD...
View ArticleValley People (July 30, 2014)
ELLEN TINKLER has died. A long-time resident of Ray’s Road, Philo, Mrs. Tinkler had been disabled by Lou Gehrig’s Disease. Mrs. Tinkler was a retired elementary school teacher. She is survived by her...
View ArticleOff the Record (July 30, 2014)
THE SAD SAGA of the Berry family, though extreme, seems to be the tip of a much larger problem, specifically the suspiciously large number of women being arrested for domestic assault. The numbers seem...
View ArticleFood Action Plan
Mendocino County has always been a food-producing region. For thousands of years, Native Peoples organized their travels and daily activities to take advantage of the availability of seasonal foods.
View ArticleLetters (July 30, 2014)
My doctor is Mark Apfel, wherever he may be practicing. If he is denied residency at the Boonville Clinic, I will no longer attend or support that institution and would encourage others to do the same.
View ArticleThe Albion River Is Dead
The Albion River is dry. That should be enough of an alarm for some people. Obviously, there is water at its mouth, but the river itself is not flowing. At the confluence of the south fork of the...
View ArticleBird’s Eye View (July 30, 2014)
What a mess! Outside the bucolic bubble that is Boonville and not far beyond, the world seems to be almost spinning out of control. We have increasingly tragic events, some of which are being...
View ArticleWelcome Home, Sgt. Berry
Steven Berry is a Marine. He barely survived heavy fighting in both Iraq and Afghanistan, suffering such horrific injuries in Afghanistan that he was medically retired after ten years of service, four...
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