SIDEWAYS Dear Mr Parrish, I just now read your “Who Really Rules California’s Wine Country?”, as I am catching up after returning to Massachusetts from northern Italy, where my fiance is from, and whose father 30 years ago was a local wine grower there as a second income to help bring up his family. It [...]
by The AVA
The Point Arena Schools District held its final meeting on Gualala’s elementary school and the $3.5 million bond approved in 2003 to build it.
by Bruce McEwen
It seems that young Isaac Campbell’s access to some of his grandma’s fortune might have enabled him to install a state-of-the-highly-advanced-art surveillance system at his ostensibly modest farm in Potter Valley.
Especially if it’s public money. Count on it, but don’t try to count it. The numbers will change on you. $15.25 million. That’s the amount Anderson Valley voters have approved for rehabbing The Valley’s crumbling schools. How much will the actual work cost? Nobody knows. How much of the work will be done by local [...]
by Todd Walton
The news of late has been full of predictions by economists and financial prognosticators about what may befall the national and global economies in the coming year, with the dopiest among them predicting an economic recovery, the centrists predicting a general flatness in the growth graphs, and the doomsters predicting the slopes becoming so steep as to render the pyramid an obelisk.
by Jonah Raskin
It’s still early in the year, the nights are cold, and outdoor pot farmers are just beginning to think about germinating seeds and planting starts. Mendocino County Sheriff Tom Allman is already ahead of the game. He’s thinking about raids on pot plantations, which could begin as early as April, he says,and he’s also already setting [...]
The open road was a welcome break from virtual confinement at Wayne’s austere ranch. The three of us followed the crowned gravel and clay contouring for the better part of another winter’s day, finally reaching the fork where one direction led to the spot where Dana’s motor had fallen off the mount and the other [...]
by Steve Sparks
I met with Muriel at the Redwood Drive-In a week or so ago and we sat and drank coffee as shared her story with me. For those who don’t know, she is Terry Ryder’s mother and a part-time Valley resident who I know as a result of her regular attendance, and quite frequent victories, at [...]
Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably then I shall begin. Here’s an important bit of information I was asked to pass on this week. If you come across, or are in a position to save, a bird of prey in some sort of distress — birds we see around here such as [...]
by Clancy Sigal
What a bunch of garbage; liberal, Democrat, conservative, Republican. It’s all there to control you! … I’m sick of it.” – from Jared Lee Loughner’s reportedly favorite movie, ‘Waking Life,’ about a man trapped in dreams How many of us are Jared Lee Loughner? The media now delightedly jump on a statistic from the Department [...]
