by The AVA
SHERIFF TOM ALLMAN has endorsed Wendy Roberts for 5th District Supervisor. IS THE WILLITS BYPASS a goner? Maybe, not that it was ever likely to have gone to construction. But the Army Corps of Engineers has missed a crucial permit deadline and Phil Dow of Mendocino Council of Governments or MCOG, on our end of [...]
by The AVA
PAVING WITH GOOD INTENTIONS Editor, Ron Epstein’s Sunday View column in the August 22 Ukiah Daily Journal attempts to explain why he thinks the planned for asphalt hot mix plant at the Harris quarry site south of Willits is a really bad idea. The proposal is by Northern Aggregates, a small Willits-based firm in the [...]
The heat of last week seemed like a good reason to stay inside and sort through junk. Amongst the piles of stuff, most of which ended up in the dumpster, I found a treasure, a true historical oddity, something you don’t find any more: A stack of letters, some hand-written, others typed. The stack was [...]
The drive from Ithaca, New York, at the southern end of Lake Cayuga to the old-and-new money town of Skaneateles at the northern end of Skaneateles Lakes takes a little less than an hour, but traverses two worlds, the one affluent (at least in parts) the other rural and poor. As a member of an [...]
I can’t say how many places lay claim to being “America’s Switzerland.” Like, while driving through Missouri, how many of Jesse James’ “famous hideouts” do you pass? Mosey up Chesapeake Bay and you’ll see plenty of signs proclaiming, “George Washington slept here.” Head toward the Trinity Alps and you’ll see lots of tributes to Big [...]
by Todd Walton
If I be not in a state of Grace, I pray God place me in it; If I be in it, I pray God keep me so. — Jean D’Arc Various accounts of the life of Joan of Arc, or as they say in French, Jean d’Arc, suggest that when she first heard voices urging [...]
by The AVA
This week: Don’t mess with dog people, conspiracy and garbage, DA Lintott and Kendall Smith, plus much more…
by The AVA
WHY WAS GREENFIELD RAIDED? Editor, The federal DEA raid 7/7/10 of Joy Greenfield’s collective, “Light the Way,” magnifies the critical juncture where medical marijuana legalization in the states challenges federal prohibition. Greenfield, 69, aka “grandma grower,” moved to Covelo California from Colorado to grow her own cannabis in order to save her deteriorating eyesight and [...]
by Steve Heilig
“The Sierra Nevada is one mountain range, 430 miles long and 40 to 80 miles wide … a 25,000-square mile construction with granite cliffs as walls, wildflowers as carpet, and a star-studded sky as the ceiling.” So write longtime Sierra denizens Gary Noy and Rick Heide, editors of this collection of writings, destined to be [...]
Willis Haviland Carrier invented modern air conditioning in 1902. Although Mr. Carrier probably doesn’t deserve a national holiday, an occasional moment of silence in his honor wouldn’t hurt, especially after last week. Sure, we don’t live in Phoenix or Atlanta, hot places where air conditioning alone has been responsible for huge population booms after World [...]
