PEOPLE IN CITIES and suburbs must envy Anderson Valley’s annual head lice scare. how often does an urban have the opportunity to gossip about his neighbor’s personal hygiene? The urb doesn’t even know who his…
Posts published by “Bruce Anderson”
THANKS FROM AN INDEBTED editor to the 196 misguided souls who cast their votes for me for a seat on the school board. Your checks are in the mail. And double thanks to the anonymous…
REPRESENTATIVES of the timber industry, including the elected ones, are complaining that the proposed addition of the Smith River (Humboldt County) will somehow cost the area timber jobs. Senator Barry Keene has observed that the…
ELECTION WRAP-UP, or the things it really isn’t wise to say when you’re a candidate like I am. One thing that stands out from this campaign is the startling number of reverential references to “the…
Last Wednesday at approximately 12:30 p.m. Joan Burroughs, school secretary, arrived at her Manchester Road home for lunch to discover her home had been burglarized. The robbers, believed to be two adult white males, apparently…
I’M ALWAYS AMUSED WHEN STRANGERS drop by with business for the Advertiser. They walk cautiously through a gauntlet of fighting and screaming children, knock timidly on the door and ask, incredulously, “Is this the newspaper?”…
THIS IS OFF THE RECORD, OKAY? It’s just between you and me. I know I can trust you to keep a secret because if these remarks were to get around my chances of being elected…
TRYING TO ENJOY A PEACEFUL HIKE up the Manchester Road the other evening, I was accosted by the leader of the Manchester Road Freedom Fighters. The Manchester Road Freedom Fighters are committed to freedom of…