FLU SEASON is upon us, and this year the doctors say we can again blame it on the pigs or, if you prefer, swine, last infecting us the winter of 2009. The symptoms: fevers, body…
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SLOW LEARNERS. Ukiah Unified is investing $282,000 in laptop computers for its 900 third and tenth grade students. The devices will allegedly “help students transition to the Common Core State Standards,” according to district Superintendent…
WE HAVE LEARNED that our friend Dannie Martin has died. Many of you will remember Dannie from his column in the San Francisco Chronicle, the first by a prison inmate to appear regularly in a…
MERRY CHRISTMAS, AVA PEOPLE! Our gift bag is light today but, as they say in the Marines, or used to say, “Every day's a holiday, every meal's a banquet!” ============================= WATER WORRIES. If winter doesn't…
THE SHERIFF'S LOG for arrests made on 19 December 2013, lists Ed Christensen, 41, of Point Arena who is accused of two felony charges of elder abuse. Some 15 years ago, Christensen was arrested for…
Suppose you were traveling through Mendocino County on Road Number 101. What do you think your chances are of finding a place where you could sit down and be served a chicken dinner?
LOCAL CORRUPTION? Not to put too fine a point on this one, but draw your own conclusions from this set of facts: DA David Eyster worked in Duncan James' law office before being elected DA.…
WE'RE GRATEFUL to Thom Elkjer for his affecting reminisces of Brian Blumberg, a crucial Valley guy for at least 30 years. Brian did a lot of our plumbing work at the old AVA compound on…
ONE MAN’S PLUMBER: AN HOMAGE TO BRIAN BLUMBERG by Thom Elkjer Economists use the phrase “essential utility” to describe something so important to a community that it must be owned or regulated by the community.…