Greetings! If you are sitting comfortably then I shall begin. It was a very fond farewell party at the Philo Post Office last Tuesday as Post Master Joe Dresch called it a day and retired…
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Back in the 80ʼs Bob Klindt responded to an ad in a home winemaker newsletter that listed Redwood Valley Chenin Blanc for sale. By 2010 he had bought winegrapes from 15 or more different vineyards…
Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably then I shall begin. A significant event this coming weekend in the Valley is the celebration of Paul Titus’s 90th Birthday. Paul informed me that he…
Item W on the Board of Supervisors Consent Calendar last Tuesday read: “Approval of a five-year agreement between the Sheriff's office and BI Inc. and authorization for the Sheriff to sign for an additional three…
They don’t have a playhouse in Covelo. Theater lovers have to travel to the courthouse in Ukiah to enjoy Round Valley's summer rep. “It must be a slow news week,” Justin Petersen said. He was…
For most of its history, Mendocino County has functioned both economically and culturally as a kind of colony, subordinate to centers of industrial capitalism like San Francisco. Consider, for example, the following extremely limited and…
Coralee Whitsett, a marine biologist currently managing the aquarium at the Point Cabrillo lighthouse north of Mendocino, has a surprising mission in life — raising Tibetan yaks. “What do you do with them?” is the…
From a ridgetop knoll on Bald Hill, in Anderson Valley's “Deep End,” the Rancho Navarro home of Elaine and Mike Kalantarian affords a generous view of the wooded hills to the northeast. They share the…
I met with Sharon last weekend at her lovely and peaceful home on Guntley Road on the Holmes Ranch at the northwest end of the Valley. She served up a delicious garden salad on what…