My uncle, the late 5th District Supervisor Joe Scaramella, was an avid reader all his life. He described the county’s media during his tour in office in the 50s and 60s as “mostly duplicative and…
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Due to the modern miracle (or curse) that is the Internet, and due to one of its miraculous (or demonic) offshoots, Facebook, an invention which allows people to broadcast their deepest feelings minute-by-minute to friends,…
Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably I shall begin. The much-needed rains continue and it’s very, very muddy out there but so far life in the Valley has been relatively undisturbed, certainly…
The pastures in our part of the Valley are swarming with opportunistic robins as the soils are saturated and earthworms are strung out like junkies on the surface. “Looks like the robins just migrated into…
That's what Dave Smith over at Ukiah Community Blog is proposing...
I dropped in on Noyo Bowl on a league night last week to witness, what I thought, was a dying institution. What I found was the opposite.
Some Mendocino County folks are gasping about the possibility of the shuttered Valley Oaks food and wine center in Hopland, once known globally for its magnificent organic gardens, becoming an RV park.
The following excerpt was overheard on KMUD during the recent downpours...
James Howard Kunstler has become the gold standard for doom and gloom predictions. Kunstler may be one of the most entertainingly negative people in the Country about where the US is going and why. He's…