Two more senior department heads left County employ this month. Long-time Agricultural Commissioner Dave Bengston retired two weeks ago, and Human Resources Director Linda Clouser has resigned to take a position with the State Court Administrator’s office in San Francisco. Assistant (and Interim) Ag Commissioner Tony Linegar has the inside track to replace Bengston. In [...]
Last week’s swearing in ceremony for the 2009 Board of Supervisors was a childish affair in two ways, literally and figuratively. There were children in the room and there were the child-like proceedings.
Children led the pledge of allegiance — great to see the kids reciting a loyalty oath in this democracy of ours — [...]
KZYX, January 1, 2009. Wildoat Living. Host: Joanna ‘Wildoat’ Cummings.
Cummings: How can we use communication and connecting with each other to continue to fuel our level of energy for, for, for making changes in the world, uh, in a way that nourishes and feeds us as opposed to draining us?
Caller Maire Alight: I’m so moved [...]
CASSIDY HOLLINGER, a senior at Anderson Valley High School, will attend Vassar College in the fall, which makes this impressive young Boonville woman the first local girl we know of to be admitted to a prestigious, highly competitive Ivy. The dauntless Cassidy, who waitresses at the Boonville Lodge where her mom tends bar, will soon [...]
CHUCK BUSH writes in the Kelley House Calendar column in last week’s Mendocino Beacon “…So whatever destruction of the Indians was caused by the military and the settlers it wasn’t even close to being as bad as popular statistics make it out to be.” Well Chuck, “popular statistics” hardly apply, mostly because they are so [...]
