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…
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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…
LEMONS MARKET, PHILO, was burglarized early Tuesday morning, very early Tuesday morning as Deputy Walker, instantly on the case, places the meticulous burglar in the store at about 3am. It's not known what if anything…
============================================= NORBURY FOUND GUILTY OF FIRST-DEGREE MURDER by Tiffany Revelle Billy M. Norbury was declared guilty of first-degree murder in the killing of Jamal Andrews by a jury in Mendocino County Superior Court Monday.…
THE GATHERING STORM at Howard Memorial Hospital in Willits, by Ace Barash, MD We in Mendocino County witness a black cloud blowing over the medical care horizon in our own community. The Northern California Network…
JACQUELINE AUDET, 22, aka Goldilocks, aka Pixie, was arrested on the Mendocino Headlands last Thursday (October 18th) for public intoxication and illegal camping and for probation violation. She was accompanied by Donald Jordan, 49, of…