My curiosity finally got the best of me. After reading Comptche resident Jerry Philbrick’s almost weekly letters to the AVA I just had to meet him. How many people around here sign their letters with…
Posts published in “Essays”
On a fine Fort Bragg autumn morning, the very day of the Mendocino Coast District Hospital Board of Directors candidates forum at the senior center, I swung by the hospital to ask for the budget.…
William Held and Dr. Case, of Ukiah, were riding northbound in a buggy on an early December evening, destination Centerville in the Potter Valley district. Their horses shied as a light flared from the darkness.…
It was standing room only at the Fort Bragg Senior Center on October 1. The League of Women Voters (LWV) hosted a meet and greet for the seven candidates running for one of the four…
Appears I somewhat influenced the county into somewhat enforcing its cannabis ordinance. At the Sept 11 BOS meeting, Planning and Building Dept. staff delivered a report on enforcement. Highlights from the report noted that: •…
Inspired by the early work of the Anderson Valley Foodshed group, The Mendocino Grain Project was launched eight years ago by Doug Mosel, Sophia Bates, and John Gramke. A CSA (Community Support Agriculture)-style grain-share was…
Elvis Presley shot the TV when Robert Goulet's face came onscreen. That's how I feel when I see Trump's phony-baloney face makeup, fake tan and hairdo. Luckily I don't have a gun. Trump seems to…
I must start writing about this abuse I have experienced. Now is the time. #Me too, but this is not a story of sexual abuse. I was 14 years old. It was the summer of…