WE OFTEN HEAR of furriners other than Mexican nationals growing dope deep in the hills of Mendocino and Humboldt counties. These furriners are often accurately identified as Bulgarians, and how exciting for our tiny, outback population to be so globally villaged! Bulgarians! There was a nest of Bulgos in Covelo that was busted up by Mendo’s famous lawman, Peter Hoyle, a few years ago, around the same time a multi-national trimmer crew — Italians, Swedes, Spaniards, Japanese, and Chinese — was discovered near Laytonville. They were all young and seemingly recruited out of a Bay Area youth hostel. The Italian consul even dispatched a couple of lawyers to defend the Italians against the rubes in the County Courthouse. And just the other day a couple of girls, one a Brit, the other an Argentinean, both of them looking awfully upscale by outback dope standards, were arrested on dope-related charges in Willits.
Posts published in “News”
So that was it. With the Labor Day weekend over, summer has officially been and gone, although the desperately needed rainfall is still some way off, assuming we get some!? The holiday weekend saw the usual influx of tourists, many of whom were polite and respectful, but some found the need to treat our roads like racetracks and I saw several instances of their “footprints” in the form of the above average amount of road kill.
(Or is it the other way around?) Crossover Hit Quartet San Francisco to Play at Parducci, Sep 6 UKIAH, CA—August 29, 2014—Saturday, September 6, Parducci Wine Cellars welcomes Quartet San Francisco to the Acoustic Café…
UKIAH, CA—August 29, 2014—Saturday, September 6, Parducci Wine Cellars welcomesQuartet San Francisco to the Acoustic Café stage. Non-traditional in their delivery, Quartet SanFrancisco redefines the sound of chamber music. “When the music says swing, we…
September 27th & 28th If you have never been to the Ukiah Artists Studio Tour now is a good time to make plans for this free event! Mark your calendar for the last weekend in…
Everyone in Mendocino County has heard the old adage, “Whiskey is for drinking and water is for fighting over,” and with the ongoing drought the old adage has rung truer than ever. Recently much attention…
When is it reasonable to spend precious moneys to confirm the obvious? Phillip Dow, the head of the Mendocino Council of Governments (MCOG), insists that any initiative, such as the Valley Trails Initiative, must put…
This coming weekend will see the annual Labor Day festivities, which have taken place at this time as a Federal holiday since 1894 and viewed by most Americans as the symbolic end of the summer. This event celebrates the American labor movement and is dedicated to the social and economic achievements of workers, so in these days of decline in the power of the unions perhaps I should remind you why you will be enjoying your beers and BBQ this weekend by referring to the influence and importance of labor unions with some appropriate Quotes of the Week.