It’s been thirty years since Mendocino County fired Ted Erickson for saying that marijuana was Mendocino County’s number one export crop. Not only saying it, but writing it. Erickson was the county’s Commissioner of Agriculture. His statement of the obvious was included in his annual report on rural Mendocino County’s cultivated bounty, including its timber, [...]
THE DENOYER WATCH. James ‘Jimmy’ Denoyer is going to be re-tried on felony animal abuse charges. The case has attracted much public interest not only in Mendocino County but nationally because Denoyer’s whole herd of starving horses, 36 of them, was impounded by Mendocino County, the largest confiscation of large animals in local history. THE [...]
“I hate traveling and explorers.” —Claude Levi-Strauss, Tristes tropiques (1955) * * * We curse the journey in order to praise the destination more fully. Already in 1778 Boswell related that Dr. Johnson detected a “strange turn in travelers to be displeased.” It is the juxtaposition between traveling and being there that governs the basic [...]
Donald “JC” Cavanaugh went missing in 2005. David Neily hasn’t been seen since 2006. Both men worked for James “Jimmy” Denoyer on Denoyer’s 20-acre horse ranch near Westport in an area known more for pot growing than it is for horse farming. Mendocino County investigators describe Denoyer as “a person of interest” in the disappearances. [...]
