With the return of sunshine, the acre or so of sand protected from wind by our wooded pasture lot, house, and barn, is heating, drying, and amazing me. Yesterday the official high for our area…
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In the past year, Kelisha Alvarez and Scotty Willis visited the Emergency Room at Ukiah Valley Medical Center 99 times.
On February 10th, on a misty morning at Rain Tenaqiya's permaculture demonstration site in the hills far above Ukiah, we gathered with four pillars of the local food movement for an in-depth discussion of their…
This Week: Sprinkle's parole; Paying for Bassler; Bath salts gone way, way wrong; and much more
WILL PARRISH reported a few weeks back on the case of Ramiro Hernandez Farias, a Ukiah resident originally from the southwestern state of Michoacan, Mexico, who has been living without papers here in Gringolandia for…
Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably then I shall begin. ‘Shine’ Tuttle, at 96, was the Valley's oldest resident at the time of his recent passing. Harold Perry, currently 95, now has…
Martin Murie died Jan. 28 after a brief illness. Biologist, teacher, writer, and ranter, Martin called himself a “varmentalist.” He was an activist for nature and wildness and against war and corporate domination. Anyone meeting…
The United States government's “compensation” to American Indians for past and present injustices typically amounts to what Groucho Marx called “a travesty of a mockery of a sham.” Case in point: In 1974, the California…
This Week: Mendo's big, empty buses; Home Invasion Season, 2012; A drunk driving death & a lenient judge; and much more