After reading a second Press Democrat article in a month about blue-green algae and dying dogs in the Russian River, Friday evening the Editor sent me an email asking how our river was faring. My…
Posts published by “David Severn”
Last Thursday's Planning Commission meeting was to rule on the Pathways In Education, aka Blackbird Farms use permit application to increase maximum occupancy from 36 to 292. The meeting elicited a surprisingly unified opposition to…
I would like to thank the Planning Commission and those front counter people in the office who have been moved to tell me within the last couple of weeks how hard the job is when dealing with the public. Yours is a trying and often thankless task not often appreciated by the general public.
This morning (Sunday) the Great Blue Heron that I often see on the river lofted itself from below the Shenoa bridge when I walked past. As looked down it rose from the company of a…
Every once in a while I decide it's time for a fast. There is some evidence that fasting is good for one's health as well as the mind. The first fast I did was on…
Here are a few things about the 19th annual Anderson Valley Pinot Festival that you might have missed - the Severn grumble. First off it was an X-rated affair with no children allowed even when…
When the dirt started moving on the parcel of land that had been recently sold by Bryant Whittaker between the “Big Dig” pond and the vineyard on the far end of Anderson Valley Way, the…