An overflow crowd packed the main gallery of the Mendocino Art Center for last Wednesday afternoon’s highly anticipated Board meeting. Board President Brandt Stickel said that each speaker would have four minutes each to address the board. He explained that there would be no board response — this was simply the community’s chance to be [...]
Part of my daily exercise ritual, aside from watching TV and spying on the neighbors, is to hurl myself up and down a steep hill overlooking San Francisco Bay. The majority of my days are spent alone inside; for an hour a day I can be alone outside. Sometimes it makes all the difference. Subscribe [...]
by Steve Sparks
Last Wednesday (10/21) the Point Arena Pirates were visitors to the Valley and AV hoped to make up for their poor performance on the coast a couple of weeks ago — a game the Panthers won 4-0 but in which they played well below par. Sure enough, after a slow start, the superior skills and [...]
As promised, here are the plans for Mendocino Permaculture’s 28th Annual Chestnut Gathering and George Zeni Memorial Potluck at the Zeni Ranch on Saturday, November 7, 2009 from 10am until 3:30pm, rain or shine. There is no charge to attend the event. The Zeni Ranch’s 100-year-old dry-farmed chestnut trees are a testament to the sustainability [...]
by Denis Rouse
Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. Another city, another time. You’re here in this once authentic Mexican fishing village ruined by gringo tourism and the human carrion birds who run the real estate industry because your brother bought a stay in a sea view villa raffled to benefit a motor home dealer, an individual who would have been [...]
There it was, ten o’clock on a Saturday morning. A Toyota truck with the camper shell pulled into the parking lot next to the rusty hay baler that still has not been tucked under a roof for winter. “You ready to go?” asked the driver. “No.” I wasn’t ready to spend most of the day [...]
by Bruce McEwen
The Mexican drug cartel La Familia went down last week, big time, with kingpins arrested in 19 states and 750 pounds of meth seized and Michoacan, the birthplace of most Mendocino County immigrants, much in the news as headquarters for much of the mayhem associated with the international drug trade. In Boonville, the Tapio-Soto familia [...]
I found a note in the faculty room at AVHS and think it deserves a broader audience. These are excerpts not the entire text. “What’s up music lovers!? So I am currently living in Kenya trying to help out a new organization that I started. I mainly work in Manyatta, the largest slum in Kisumu. [...]
Alphonse Joseph Hingel Riede, born April 10, 1930 in Toronto, Ontario, the only child of Katharine (nee Hingel) and Alphons Riede. Alphons died peacefully after a long illness in Mendocino Coast District Hospital. He was 79. Mr. Riede was widowed and had no children. His two cousins, John Joseph Glaser of Cobourg Ontario and Felix [...]
APPRECIATING HISTORY I Letter to the Editor, Our Enclosure Project is well under way! We want to extend thanks to the many donors that are making this project a reality: The Miner-Anderson Foundation, Anderson Valley Brewing, Larry Mailliard, Ron Verdier, Steve Woods, Michael & Susan Addison, The Pratt Family Trust, Bob Mathias, Gloria La Fleur, [...]
