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Posts published in “Day: February 11, 2015

Mendocino County Today: Thursday, Feb 12, 2015

Citizen's Arrest in Potter Valley;
PUC Peevey Party;
Catch of the Day;
Downed Trees;
Pinoleville Confusion;
Lynching Map;
Hare Creek Appeal;
Timber Baron;
Bumperstickers;
Water Polluters;
Big Oil's Influence;
Ban Fracking

Building Solariums

The barometric pressure is falling on a Sunday afternoon. I can feel it in my bones as I gaze out the window at the evergreen…

Letters (Feb 11, 2015)

This letter is to officially ask those of you who farm at night to cease creating noise that keeps your neighbors, including schoolchildren and other farmers, awake between the hours of 10 PM and 7 AM. We request that you cease all of these activities as they are a detriment to public health and are causing extreme anxiety, anger and frustration to hundreds of residents of Anderson Valley. Please respond to this letter with your intentions on these matters so that we may know how to best work together for the good of the valley.

Sailing the Cowpie to San Francisco (1970)

One of the more interesting women I met anchored out was Diane Allen from Memphis, Tennessee. I was enchanted by her southern accent, and I…

Valley People (Feb 11, 2015)

EVERYONE in The Valley has a storm story, ranging from mysterious blue flame racing along power lines between Boonville and the high school, to the big winds throwing fifty pound deck furniture far into the gulch below, to the gale force gusts that seemed only a puff away from blowing in the windows. Monday, downtown businesses were up and running soon after the power went back on about 9.

Mowing

A friend called last week to ask if I was aware of the recent carnage wreaked on the Mendocino headlands from Ford House down to the land above Portuguese Beach. She said giant bulldozer mowers had mowed everything, except the very largest shrubs, down to bare earth. I said I would take a look.

Donnafugata

Margaret and I are planning a trip to Sicily. It is an itch that just would not go away. It is not out of curiosity…

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