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Crime & No Punishment

Recently a 44-year-old Laytonville man with a history of multiple police “contacts” was busted down in Brooktrails on several charges. Here’s the story: He’s someone well known to me and my co-workers at the Laytonville…

Is Mendo Imploding?

Watching the Board of Supervisors’ blasé attitude toward the County’s core function of property tax collection it’s hard to escape the sense that Mendo is on the verge of imploding and nobody has any idea…

Coast Hospital District Fund Transfers

On February 23rd, with two members absent, the Mendocino Coast Health Care District (MCHCD) Board of Directors heard an emergency agenda item. The bottom line for this item was that the board treasurer, Jade Tippett,…

Mendo Winemaker Paul Dolan

A Mover and a Shaker in Mendocino County Wines Lived a Life of Deep Roots and Forward-Thinking, Legendary North Coast vintner Paul Dolan died at his home on June 26, 2023. His life traced back…

County Notes: Behind The Curve

A large and uncharacteristically loud contingent of County employees showed up at the Supervisors meeting on Tuesday, June 20 to demand some kind of pay raise or at least a partial cost of living increase.…

A Jubilant Juneteenth In San Francisco, 2023

“It’s Juneteenth everybody,” Kevin Dublin, an African American poet, said to the downtown poetry enthusiasts at the upscale Kimpton Alton Hotel in San Francisco near Fisherman’s Wharf. Indeed, it was June 19th, time to celebrate…

25 Years of Change in Anderson Valley

The people, the businesses and the activities in the Anderson Valley have changed substantially over the past 25 years. In 1998 more people who were either born here or raised their families here were in…

The Radioactive Rose Garden

My young friend Katharine is studying to be a doctor. When I told her that a number of public places in the San Francisco Bay area have unusually high levels of nuclear reactor waste, she…

The Return Of Sierra Nevada World Music Festival

“All kinda people come a dance” – Sugar Minott My first musical experience at the Anderson Valley Fairgrounds came in 1971. I was part of a pickup band of musicians camping at the mouth of…

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