I met with Bob at his home on Guntley Road between Philo and Navarro, nestled among vines just above the Valley floor off Hwy 128. We each drank some water and shared a plate of…
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The primary mandate of the California State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB), a division of the California Environmental Protection Agency, is to ensure adequate water for California's fish populations. Its actual function, however, has proved…
Last Tuesday, the Mendocino County Board of Supervisors spent more than half an hour aimlessly discussing Mendocino County's “Legislative Platform.” O mi o my o how can we get federal and state agencies to pay…
The morning of July 23rd I woke up with a stomachache. By noon the stomachache was bending me in half but, like a true child of the 50s — no blood, no injury — I…
THE MOST INTERESTING THING about former SoCo winemaker LaMarion Spence’s idea to help wine tasters avoid DUI arrests (not mentioned in the Press Democrat’s story last week, of course) is the de facto admission that…
Last Wednesday night the Community Services District board convened to hear public comment on the healing center proposed by Laura Hamburg for downtown Boonville. Most Boonville people, if not all of them, believe Ms. Hamburg…
“This is the most repulsive case I have ever seen,” Judge Richard Henderson declared as he took up the sordid matter of Steven J. Henry, lately of Laytonville. Henderson, pushing 70, is the oldest judge…