Archive for: February, 2008

Martin Mileck’s Potter Valley Dump

by Mark Scaramella

Martin Mileck’s Potter Valley Dump

As a public service, and as a guide to how Mendocino County and its haphazard media phlegmatically conspire to bamboozle the public let’s deconstruct a recent story about Martin Mileck’s Cold Creek Compost permit problems.
“Compost Permit Issuance Expected, by Ben Brown, The Daily Journal, February 17th, 2008. After a protracted series of court battles and [...]

Culture Notes

by Bruce Anderson

Culture Notes

A reader writes: “I was enjoying my weekly hit but what to my amazement my wandering eyes should appear — ‘I drove off to where I was, well past Printing Xpress, deep into an audio version of Moby Dick, when…’ As it happens, I am also listening to an audio version of Moby Dick, and [...]

Rusty Norvell, 1930-2008

by Bruce Anderson

Rusty Norvell, 1930-2008

The last time I saw Rusty was the Friday after the first big January storm. He hadn’t had any electricity for several days. His place at The Woods, the oddly suburban senior housing complex in the Pygmy Forest of Little River three miles from the Pacific, was still strewn with down tree limbs. Mexicans were [...]

Personal Encounters With The Homeless

by Bruce Anderson

Three winters ago, the county of Mendocino put up a big tent next door to the Fort Bragg Police Department. The idea was to get the homeless out of the rain because the town’s sole shelter, Hospitality House, was full up, and tends to stay full up, winter and summer, because it’s the only one the length of Mendocino’s very long coast.

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