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The 2013 Not So Simple Living Fair

My wife and I visited Boonville late last July. We came to see some friends on the weekend of the Not So Simple Living Fair, which sounded like the sort of thing we would be interested in. Perhaps humanity can survive the "cheap" carbon energy era with far fewer of us living a radically different way of life.

Off The Record (Jan 15, 2014)

THE MENDO County Supervisors, on Tuesday (7th January), voted unanimously to declare a local emergency “and imminent threat of disaster” from drought, and appointed two of its members, Carre Brown and Dan Hamburg, to an…

Valley People (Jan 15, 2014)

ABOUT AN HOUR of rain fell on Mendocino County Saturday morning, just enough to sweeten the air and whet our thirst for more, much more. If we got a quarter inch Saturday we'd be surprised.…

Letters (Jan 15, 2014)

I wanted to make mention about the use of pepper spray on inmates. Naturally I can't say what goes on in all the penitentiaries. But at the prisons I've been to, I can tell you that I'd like to have the franchise on pepper spray because they now use "super soaker" to punish fighters, smartmouths, and the "general population."

Mendocino County Today: January 15, 2014

TINFOIL HAT ALERT, ALBION! Verizon is asking the County's Planning Commission for permission to erect "a 105-foot monopole supporting 12 panel antennas, including two GPS antennas" one mile south of Albion on property owned by…

Mendocino County Today: January 14, 2014

NO RAIN in the forecast for at least the next two weeks as CalFire, Monday, announced an “uncommon fire weather watch” from Monday night to Tuesday morning as the weather service warns of a potentially…

Mendocino County Today: January 13, 2014

WE IMMEDIATELY THOUGHT of the Willits Bypass when reading the recent news that New Jersey Governor Chris Christie’s staff created a bottleneck on the George Washington Bridge for several days on the false pretense that…

Mendocino County Today: January 12, 2014

ABOUT AN HOUR of rain fell on Mendocino County Saturday morning, just enough to sweeten the air and whet our thirst for more, much more. If we got a quarter inch we'd be surprised. By…

Mendocino County Today: January 11, 2014

THE COUNTY has established a hurry-up "drought hotline" at 463-4589. The idea is that County residents will provide status reports on their individual water situations so the County can get a clear idea of what…

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