SPORTS NOTES was presented with a terrible dilemma on a recent Saturday night, for the first time ever he had been invited to a “sweat.” A “sweat” is an ancient Boonville hippy ceremony wherein all…
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YOU HAVE NOTICED by now that our alleged representatives, the people tribunes all look alike. It doesn’t matter whether Democrat or Republican, female or male, they look like a picture I saw once of Dan…
MIKE SWEENEY is paid over $100,000 a year as manager of the Mendocino Solid Waste Management Authority, meaning he's boss of the county's trash removal processes. Sweeney is also one of Mendocino County's more interesting…
CHARLES GAINES, noted nutritionist and exercise guru, recently described the physical condition of the typical American child as “scary.” Gaines said that “most ’yuppie’ parents are in terrific shape but their children are fatter and…
A VISIT TO THE ANDERSON VALLEY HEALTH CENTER LIKE MOST PEOPLE, I steer clear of the medical profession, never ever going near it unless absolutely forced to. In any case, like millions of Americans, I…
The Philo Grange Hall burned to the ground early Sunday evening. The glow from the blaze could be seen from as far away as the Holmes Ranch and the top of the Ukiah grade as…
TUNED IN THE NEWS the other day on radio, but instead of the usual rehash of the day’s disasters, I got five minutes of conversation from one of these glib talk show guys, a social…
FAINT OF HEART, read no farther for there is not a single encouraging sentence in this column. THE BRITISH BROADCASTING Corporation will be here next week to do a program on Alice Walker. The entire…
THIS PAST SUNDAY’S San Francisco Chronicle/Examiner featured a story on the dual collapses of Anderson Valley’s and Mendocino’s high school football programs. The two disasters were jumbled up in a manner that suggested substance abuse…