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…
Posts published by “Bruce Anderson”
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…
I GREW UP a hundred miles south of here, or at least I got bigger, agreeing at least partially with the feminists who maintain that American men never really grow up but remain forever boys.…
Officially called the Mendocino County Fair, most of the effort is committed by Anderson Valley people. The Redwood Empire Fair, held annually in Ukiah, is more representative of the County, having moved from being merely…
Juan Orr, 26, probably of Chico, has libeled two Albion men every which way. Not only libeled them, but got them arrested, thrown in jail and, briefly, charged with major felonies. It all started when…