THE FLYNN FIRE was declared “95% contained” as of Thursday morning, CalFire has announced. The agency also amended the size of the blaze to 195 acres over yesterday's announced 200 acres. The fire began Monday…
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THE FLYNN FIRE is in its mopping up stage. A small army of CalFire vehicles covered the parking lot of the Boonville Fairgrounds early Wednesday morning, but from everything we've heard from our Comptche correspondents…
THE POST-NAM GENERATION Dear Editor: My name is Leif Berkson and I'm writing in response to the correspondence you have had with Jim Houle about my status in prison and the events leading up to…
If I were to sum it up using the current terminology, I would say my first childhood home had very good “energy.” It was a happy time for all of us — my father continuing to develop his ministerial skills, my mother beginning her teaching career (which continued for another 25 years), my brother entering adolescence and me beginning school and piano lessons (which continued for another six years).
THE FLYNN FIRE: As the temperature rose to better than a hundred degrees in the Anderson Valley and Comptche Monday afternoon, a fire broke out at 2:20pm near the Comptche Fire House and moved rapidly…
Does it seem like more and more of the homeless are accompanied by a dog or dogs? The City of San Francisco has just initiated a program that pairs the homeless with abandoned puppies. The…
Last night by the fire, our new (old) house enshrouded in dense fog, I said to Marcia that I didn't feel we were on the land where this house sits but rather on a boat, or possibly a raft, floating somewhere on the ocean of existence.
AS PREDICTED, Mendocino County Superior Court judge Ann Moorman has tossed the state's feeble attempt to bring some order to the wholesale plunder of the Russian River's overdrawn waters by inland Mendocino County's grape and…
THE BOONVILLE PANTHERS, young and inexperienced as they are, gave Potter Valley a scare at the Boonville Fairgrounds last Friday night, finally succumbing in the fourth quarter to the visiting Bearcats. You might say a…