Sunday morning there was a message on the answering machine from a neighboring rancher who said he'd found a dead goat in the middle of…
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LeGarrette Blount in the Tampa Bay Buccaneers running back who helped to beat the San Francisco 49ers last Sunday. He also was the Oregon Ducks…
The wonderfully successful 2010 Soccer Season is over and all that remains for me to do is to inform you of the team’s individual awards…
Greetings. If you are sitting comfortably then I shall begin. And a Happy Thanksgiving to one and all for tomorrow! What a great day –…
“Tell the children the truth.” — Bob Marley 1957. Las Lomitas Elementary School. Menlo Park, California “I invite those people with ants in their pants,”…
During the discussion of the County’s annual budget all the way back in 1994 the then-Board of Supervisors unanimously declared that the Sheriff’s “overtime budget…
It's already almost Thanksgiving. How does this happen? It's raining in Fort Bragg. Wait, no- it's sunny. The Day of the Dead was a great…
When last we visited the $3,087 in untraveled travel reimbursements that Supervisor Kendall Smith lifted from the taxpayers of Mendocino County, The Sisterhood had already…
Americans keep odd things up on the mantelpiece, or in the fridge: Dad’s ashes in a biscuit tin or, in Barbara Bush’s case, as her…
A few weeks ago Bruce Anderson wrote “A Breathless Look Back at the San Francisco Giants” — a mini-history from when they arrived at Babylon…
Beep. You’ve reached the office of the President of the United States. The President is out of the office or otherwise occupied and cannot accept…