Back To Basics
The Fifth Annual Not-So-Simple Living Fair at the Boonville Fairgrounds saw an avid throng of attendees. The event is hugely popular and crucial to a growing and widely diverse demographic of Mendocino...
View ArticleLocal Folks, Part 2
As promised in my previous article, here are descriptions of a few more local folks as I remember them during my time in Anderson Valley from the late 1950s to the late 1980s. Jack Clow — Proprietor of...
View ArticleLost Coast Ramble
We approach the twentieth anniversary of the wilderness trek of the two greatest radical journalists of our time: the late Alexander Cockburn and Bruce Anderson, editor and publisher of America’s Last...
View ArticleHoefest 2014
A gentle rain keeps me company in the wee hours as I pen these words. We desperately needed it. Throughout May and June, storms danced by with thunder and lightning all around, teasing us like a...
View ArticleFailure
Last night I attended the Mendocino Music Festival’s third orchestral concert of this year’s festival, my wife a cellist in the most excellent orchestra. The second half of the program was Symphony No....
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Thursday, July 31, 2014
AS IS INEVITABLE in Mendocino County, where secrecy in all matters covers up all manner of official crimes and misdemeanors, we can only speculate about the Berry Family case. FIRST THE KNOWN FACTS....
View ArticleThe KZYX Backward Shuffle
Overcast skies on Monday, July 7th brought relief of the triple digit temperatures that had plagued inland residents over the weekend. The KZYX Board of Directors met that evening in an air conditioned...
View ArticleAn Aunt’s Immigration Tale
“But my father’s dying.” I didn’t want to say the word “dying” because I still had hope for a miracle and was superstitious about such pronouncements, but needs must at a visa interview at the US...
View ArticleWe Want It All
Last week, a group of Mendo grape growers led by a Redwood Valley grape grower and PhD psychotherapist named Dr. Rudolph Light, announced that they would appeal the recent state appellate court's...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Friday, August 1, 2014
Saturday Night Out; Chief Rumors; Roadside Plunge; Fire Update; Political Corruption; Grand Jurying; Burning Man; Catch of the Day; Willits Water Problems; The House; Firewood Program Ends
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Saturday, August 2, 2014
Timber Fire; Ukiah Shelter; Rural Broadband; James Larsen; Library Politics; Crimes of the Week; PA Field Station; Insider Money; Credit Debt; Last Evening; Catch of the Day; Republicans Meet; Budget...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Sunday, August 3, 2014
Police Rumors; Fire Growing; Drowning Sorrows; Civic Standards; Bus Encounters; Phone Gouging; A Death; Evil Thing; Stupid GOP; Bad Gardeners; Catch of the Day; Local Food; Klamath Fish Kills
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Monday, August 4, 2014
Frack Vote; Fire Updates; Another Double-dipper; Coast Outage; Buying Local; College Days; Fish Travel; Catch of the Day; ROTR Hot; Remains Identified; Windsor Music; Board Interruption; KPFA Support
View ArticleEmergency Evacuation Site
There will be a community meeting on Monday, August 4 at 3 p.m. at Harwood Hall to provide information about Harwood Hall being the designated emergency evacuation site for the Red Cross in case there...
View ArticleTwice as Good & The John Mattern Band
This Sunday, August 10th 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 fifth concert of the 23rd annual Sundays in the...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Tuesday, August 5, 2014
LAST FRIDAY NIGHT CalFire reported that the “Lodge Complex” lightning strike fire outside of Branscom, to the west of Laytonville had consumed 750 acres and was 20% contained. AS OF MONDAY NIGHT at 7pm...
View ArticleEBT Benefits in Fort Bragg: Service Interrupted
On Sunday, August 3, 2014, an incident occurred on the Comptche Road resulting in the need to replace up to 12,000 feet of fiber optic cable. This cable is the primary source of telephonic transfer...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Wednesday, August 6, 2014
THAT FIRE burning toward Leggett north of Branscomb remains mostly uncontrolled in rough, hilly terrain and, by Tuesday evening, had scorched nearly 4,000 acres, threatening some 17 homes and...
View ArticleBird’s Eye View (Aug 6, 2014)
This week, Sunday August 10 to be precise, is the 85th Birthday of my Mother, the Venerable Vulture. While a little unsteady during flight, mentally she remains as sharp as ever and will not hesitate...
View ArticleValley People (Aug 6, 2014)
HUGE TURNOUT at the Grange benefit Sunday night for Charlie Paget-Seekins and Mark Pitner, probably the largest turnout for a fundraiser ever in the Anderson Valley. The popular pair serve as both...
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