At one point during last Thursday’s hearing in front of the Mendocino County Planning Commission, as they considered a proposal for an open pit gravel mining operation in Covelo, I thought I heard a curious, faint, wheezing sound. As if sea creatures of some kind were rising to the surface of the water to breathe. [...]
My step-grandfather, Lawrence Pike, was a Pomo from the Coast of Mendocino County. We used to call them “Coast Injuns,” although I suppose that is too insensitive for times like these. I recall a trip to visit his sister at the reservation in Manchester. We had slept in the car the previous night. L.P. just [...]
by Steve Sparks
Many people have asked Stephen over the past couple of years about when he was going to be in the ‘other chair’ and be interviewed himself. Well, as we were in the UK recently, visiting his family and our friends for a couple of weeks, we decided that the time had come. So, on a [...]
by Ken Hurst
I’m glad the San Francisco 49ers were able to bring Jim Harbaugh to their team as their head coach. Coach Harbaugh certainly displayed his college coaching ability with Stanford. He made Stanford a relevant and respected football program in the football nation, especially because he recruited Andrew Luck out of Texas and made him the [...]
by Todd Walton
“How’s your back?” asks Marvin, handing me cash for pruning his fruit trees. “Pretty good,” I say, lifting my ladder into the back of my pickup. “Mine’s all fucked up,” he murmurs, looking away. “Can’t lift a damn thing.” “You need something lifted? I’m good up to fifty pounds.” “Well,” he says, fidgeting. “I…the thing [...]
Back in Ireland when I grew up, Easter was a very serious affair. In my hometown of Youghal many shops closed for the entire week, as you might expect in a country at that time vying with Poland, Spain and the Philippines as the most intensely Catholic country on the planet. Throw into the mix [...]
by Will Parrish
Across recent years, a State of California agency called the the North Coast Railroad Authority (NCRA) has been plodding ahead in its campaign to make freight chug-a-chug down the tracks from the Port of Eureka on down to the San Francisco Bay — carrying some sort of merchantable cargo as they go, presumably — for [...]
Here walks my dad, Arthur Krause with Reverend John Adams and other protesters on his last trip back to Kent State. His daughter, Allison Krause, was slain at Kent State in the student protest against the Vietnam War on May 4, 1970, a day that forever changed our family and civil rights in America. Approaching [...]
Have you ever been sorry you asked a question? At last week’s Supervisors meeting, Supervisor McCowen made the mistake of asking CEO Carmel Angelo what was taking so long to consolidate the half-empty County offices in Fort Bragg, especially the ones the County pays Dominic Affinito $316,000 a year for? Subscribe now to access our [...]
by The AVA
This Week: Kendall Smith’s Portland junket; Dominic Affinito’s sweetheart deal in Fort Bragg; Public attorneys take a pay cut; and much more
