by The AVA
TRAVIS T. HIP from the KSAN days has died in his sleep. Services will be held next Saturday (26th of May in Silver City Nevada. A READER sends along this accompanying note: From his perch in the high desert of western Nevada, remote control and cup in hand, Chan Laughlin, aka Travis T. Hipp, (“the [...]
by The AVA
SUMMER DOPE SEASON got off to a spectacular start Friday morning when a Humboldt County task force raided a 16,465-plant garden near Garberville. Locals, as they joked about how long it took the cops to count to 16,465, say the site was a Mexican grow, irrigated from a blue-line feeder stream on Barnum Timber Company [...]
by The AVA
LAST WEDNESDAY NIGHT County an unknown number of County employees received the following email from Jasmin Ward, of the Service Employees International Union. “ELECTION UPDATE — Dear Union Members, This update is to alert all voting members that the June 5th Primary Election is rapidly approaching. Mail-in ballots have gone out and it is crucial [...]
by The AVA
THE GRAND JURY REPORTS are out. We haven’t read the whole thing yet but we did read three areas the GJ reported on, the gist of which are these three gists: THE COUNTY’S retirement system remains precarious with an unfunded liability of $124.9 million, up from $91.7 million last year with a larger obligation trending [...]
by The AVA
THE UKIAH FAIR BOARD has not renewed Blair Aiken’s contract to run the Speedway on its North State Street fairgrounds. The Fair Board says it can’t allow the track to re-open under a new manager until Water Quality Control says it’s safe, specifically that the contaminated dirt hauled to the site by the Mendocino Transit [...]
Last week I completed a class I never intended on taking. In fact, I have been running from that whole sector of the academic world for half my life. I even transferred to obscure colleges to circumvent certain requirements. I am not proud. I felt guilty, of course, but I figured I would never need [...]
by Todd Walton
“When we express our true nature, we are human beings. When we do not, we do not know what we are.” — Shunryu Suzuki Planting sugar snap pea seeds yesterday, I was thrilled to find the raised bed rife with earthworms, young and old. We garden in soil known hereabouts as pygmy, which left to [...]
by The AVA
DAVE GURNEY WRITES: “On Friday, I appeared in Mendocino County Superior Court with attorney Peter Martin of Eureka, (via teleconference call) and three loyal supporters, to answer a ‘Motion for Summary Adjudication’ filed by Deputy Attorney General David Hamilton. Hamilton is seeking to have our lawsuit for false arrest, Bagley-Keene and Civil Rights violations thrown [...]
by The AVA
AN ITEM on this week’s Supervisor agenda, as the leadership convenes in Mendocino, is “The Mendocino Town Plan,” part of the “Coastal Element” of the County’s General Plan. Adopted in 1992 “to preserve the historical character of the Town and maintain the historic residential community character… maintaining “a balance between maintenance of the historic residential [...]
by The AVA
PIXIE WATCH, A READER WRITES: “Driving into Fort Bragg Saturday noon, south end of town, near Hare Creek Bridge, I was shocked to look left and see Ms. Audet calmly strolling along the highway with a large dog. The experience was much like the shock of spotting a celebrity, or an animal in the wild, [...]
