IT'S BEEN A TOUGH WEEK for Mendo law enforcement, men and women doing an impossible job at an impossible juncture of our ever more chaotic history. Several years ago a Fort Bragg friend of mine,…
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CHEERLEADER BAKESALE! Anderson Valley’s Varsity Youth Cheerleaders are holding a Big Bakesale on Lemons’ Market Porch this Saturday to raise money for cheerleading uniforms for new girls who have signed up for basketball…
DEAR DA DAVE Editor, The “factual” part of DA Eyster’s Bassler Report left out a lot of facts regarding Mendocino County’s negligent role in these tragedies. Supervisor Hamburg’s letter pointed out some of the missing…
MUCH AS I ADMIRE Giants pitcher Ryan Vogelsong, his post-game spiel after beating the Cardinals about how God had taken a personal interest in him and the National League playoffs, reminded me that it was…
October 24th marks the birthday of Sarah Josepha Hale 224 years ago. Practically every English speaker recognizes her eight line poem by its first five words: “Mary had a little lamb…” Sarah Josepha Hale was…
“The chief cause for the impending collapse of the world—the cause sufficient in and by itself—is the enormous growth of the human population: the human flood. The worst enemy of life is too much life:…
In 1998, novelist and journalist Jane Futcher and her partner, midwife Erin Carney, joined a Year to Live group in Marin. The impact was profound: based upon the writings of Stephen Levine, the meetings, during…
ELIZABETH GOLDSTEIN of the State Parks Foundation called Tuesday morning. She wasn't happy, and Franklin Graham, who has been writing and writing well about the ongoing State Parks crisis, may not be happy that I…