Community Meetings in Leggett & Laytonville
CAL FIRE Incident Management Team 4 in conjunction with the cooperating agencies on the Lodge Complex of fires will be hosting community meetings in Leggett and Laytonville. Representatives from the...
View ArticleVillage Building Convergence Coming to Small Town Sebastopol
Village Building Convergence (VBC) activists and their supporters from Cittaslow Sebastopol, Transition, the Grange, Permaculture Skills Center, and other groups recently packed the City Council...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Sunday, August 10, 2014
AS OF AUGUST 9 at 7pm the Lodge Wilderness fire is up to about 7500 acres with 30% containment, another small improvement over prior reports. There are now 11 injuries reported and 58 structures...
View ArticleThe Imaginary World Of Phil Frisbie, Jr.
Since the advent of the modern propaganda industry during the era of World War I, paid propaganda shills have become a fixture of large capital projects and national endeavors of virtually every sort....
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Monday, August 11, 2014
AS OF AUGUST 10 at 7pm the Lodge Wilderness fire was up to about 8700 acres with 35% containment, another improvement over prior reports, although the fire seems to be expanding pretty fast. There have...
View ArticleUrgent – Fire Weather Forecast
The National Weather Service in Eureka has issued a Red Flag Warning for isolated to scattered dry thunderstorms with abundant lightning, which is in effect from 11 pm this evening to 7 am PDT Tuesday.
View ArticleFord Bros In The Park
Ford Blues Band to Play Final Sundays in the Park Concert this Sunday Ukiah, CA. -This Sunday, August 17th in Todd Grove Park at 6:00pm Fowler Auto & Truck Center, The City of Ukiah, KWNE-FM and...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Tuesday, August 12, 2014
AS OF AUGUST 11 at 7pm the Lodge Wilderness Fire had expanded dramatically to about 10,000 acres with 40% containment, another improvement over prior reports considering how big the fire has become...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Wednesday, August 13, 2014
AS OF AUGUST 12 at 7pm the Lodge Wilderness Fire had expanded again to about 11,000 acres with 45% containment, another improvement since yesterday. The number of structures being threatened is down...
View ArticleValley People (Aug 13, 2014)
JERRY DIFALCO has died. A long-time resident of the Anderson Valley, Jerry had been in failing health for some time and, at the time of his death, was confined to a Sonoma County nursing home. As a...
View ArticleOff the Record (Aug 13, 2014)
A MICRO-ORGANISM called the hemp broadmite is chewing up pot plants in many areas of the county at a rate that has growers terrified. Entire gardens are being devoured by the thing. The rest of us...
View ArticleIvan The Terrible — Or Ivan The Not So Terrible
“If there’s any reasonable doubt, you must find my client not guilty,” Ivan Sanchez’s Santa Rosa lawyer told the jury at the end of Sanchez’s trial last week. Mr. Gabriel Quinnan said, “And the alleged...
View ArticleGrape Growers Congratulate Each Other
Back in 2009 the Grape People realized they needed to do something to counter the relatively small amount of negative publicity they were getting, particularly around water use and fish strandings...
View ArticleBird’s Eye View (Aug 13, 2014)
Bill Sterling, a keen and pro-active supporter of the Valley’s well-being and progress, writes, “At the CSD board meeting at 5:30 pm on August 20th, I shall make a presentation about the STEM project...
View ArticleStephen & Gloria Decater
The Decater family runs Live Power Community Farm in Covelo, a diversified, solar-powered CSA farm that for 27 years has supplied its 200 member families here in Mendocino County, and the Bay Area,...
View ArticleLetters (Aug 13, 2014)
I am writing to thank the people of Anderson Valley for their love and support in the aftermath of my recent accident. I am so moved and amazed by the generosity of this community. I have seen our...
View ArticleShimmers Of Past Peace & Future Terrors
An early August road trip heading east from the city of Ithaca in the middle of New York State to southern Vermont promises calm, pastoral progress. With farming in steep decline the forest is...
View ArticleHug A Farmer
I am a 21-year-old semi-adult and, being quite interested in me, I think often of my future. I have climbed to the top of youth and now have my fullest gaze at the adult world. It is a panorama of...
View ArticleAugust Adventures
August should be a month of adventure, entertainment and fun. For the last two, readers can’t do much better than the Mendocino Theatre Company’s production of The Graduate. If you’re thinking, I’ve...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Thursday, August 14, 2014
AS OF AUGUST 13 at 7pm the Lodge Wilderness Fire had expanded again but only by 300 acres to about 11,300 acres with 50% containment, another improvement since yesterday, especially since the fire has...
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