Friday evening about seven, as Old Testament reggae entertained rapturous crowds at the Boonville Fairgrounds with rhythmic warnings that Judgment Day would soon be upon us, a sudden rain began, a heavy rain for the brief minutes it fell, and when the rain disappeared as unexpectedly as it had appeared, lightning commenced, bolts of it [...]
A thousand people in Boonville is fifty thousand in San Francisco, and there were more than a thousand people in Boonville by five o’clock last Thursday waiting for Sgt. Jesse Slotte to come home.
Boonville has never seen anything like it, not even at fair time when the town swells to several thousand visitors, most of [...]
A thousand people in Boonville is fifty thousand in San Francisco, and there were more than a thousand people in Boonville by five o’clock last Thursday waiting for Sgt. Jesse Slotte to come home.
Boonville has never seen anything like it, not even at fair time when the town swells to several thousand visitors, most of [...]
The old plan, the young live. Most of the people at last Thursday’s Planning Commission hearing to address the Anderson Valley Alternative General Plan Draft at the Boonville Fairgrounds were over the age of 50. The sole young person (i.e., under 30) was the reporter from Mendocino County Public Radio.
A parade of locals trooped to [...]
Imagine yourself making your way from Boonville to Mexico City any way you could when, just south of San Diego, you had to get yourself over, under or through a twenty foot high illuminated steel-plated barrier patrolled by armed men and attack dogs. Once past the fence, a fence aimed specifically at keeping you on [...]
Jesse Slotte comes home tomorrow, home with a purple heart, home from a war that almost claimed him as another of its innumerable victims, home not all the way recovered from wounds to every part of his body, home to a place he wondered if he’d ever see again, home from a war lots of [...]
