The Groundswell following Dave Smith’s generous “Draft Scaramella for Supervisor” suggestion has been, ahem, less than underwhelming. Not one letter of support has been received for publication. And I think four, maybe five, people have indicated various degrees of lukewarm support to me personally. None of those five mentioned anything about my basic “platform” that [...]
A DEEP BOW
Editor & Reed Whittemore,
“I hear the loved survivors tell
How naught from death could save,
Till every sound appears a knell
And every spot a grave.”
Wrote Abraham Lincon, at 37.
Then, decades later, William Faulkner wrote, “The past is never dead, it isn’t even past.”
I bow my head, United States of America, to each citizen in Iraq [...]
To the editor and all of those at the good old AVA:
I hope all is well there. I was not going to write this story because the last one had me ending up in the office and needless to say I came out on the short end of the stick. But I [...]
by Freda Moon
Some fights start small and build into a rage that ends in bloodshed. Others begin with a man shouting, “Hey, fuck face!” at 8am on a Saturday morning in early November in downtown Fort Bragg. In this case, Fuck Face is Jim Muto, the owner of the Italian dinner house V’Canto; the shouter was Dan [...]
by The AVA
This week: Lintott’s glamour shot, a Kent State Truth Tribunal, Angelo enters CEOdom, Hamburg on medipot and much more…
by Bruce McEwen
The murder trials are piling up at the Mendocino County Courthouse almost as fast as the bodies are.
by Tim Stelloh
A cigarette. That’s what caused the argument three years ago that lead to the federal lawsuit filed two months ago claiming a former Fort Bragg cop had altered police documents.
by John Ross
First stop was the near north woods, Humboldt County USA, to wheedle the medicos into granting me a clean bill of health before I hit the road. A year ago this February, my doctor who has poked and probed my old broken cadaver for nearly 20 years pronounced me dead. “Liver Cancer” he parsed gravely [...]
by Steve Sparks
Wallen Summers becomes our third guest from the Valley who was born outside the US. He ‘arrived’ in Shanghai, China, in 1932, the second child of Sarci Chen and his American wife, Ann Summers. “My father was a sophisticated, modern guy of the 1920s who had been educated at Worcester Tech in Massachusetts and upon his return to China he became an electrical engineer with his own business. My older sister and I grew up in a middle class household and we were very close. She is a retired psychiatrist in San Francisco who has hung on to her Chinese roots far more than I have. She even changed her name from June back to Mai Long and to this day continues to have very negative feelings towards the Japanese after our experiences in the Second World War, perhaps because she is four years older than me and was a teenager at that time.”
Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably then I shall begin. First an update from the world of higher education. AVHS alum Cassidy Hollinger, currently a freshwoman at the illustrious Vassar College in upstate New York, is to play a vital role in her college’s production of ‘Bulrusher,’ a play written by Eisa [...]
