This year marks the 25th annual version of the Sierra Nevada World Music Festival, and its 13th year in Boonville. Begun in 1994 in the…
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Yes. Eventually. An actual water and sewage disposal system is well into the planning stages, and we learned last Thursday evening (June 7th) where it…
For the last two years, I have, like most folks, immersed myself in the daily (political) news, steeping in the vile stew and concocting a…
Tim Moellering, history teacher and baseball coach at Berkeley High School, died on a Tuesday in 2011, after a lengthy struggle against cancer. Moellering's Berkeley…
It was the summer of Woodstock, and Henry and Patsy were going. They asked Sheila and me to go but we heard the weather was…
The Big Red pickup truck. Bright red with huge wheels that lift it high off the road. Guy moves in next door with this monster,…
Mendocino Coast District Hospital (MCDH) held a Board of Directors meeting on the last day of May. The agenda contained some of the usual, such…
In late March of this year, it suddenly dawned on County CEO Carmel Angelo that Juvenile Hall was badly overbudget. Her initial reaction was to…
Beginning in the 1980s but gathering steam in the mid-to-late 1990s, American doctors turned millions of their chronic pain-suffering patients into opiate dependents. There was…
Time travel has become a familiar enough subject to us by way of innumerable fictional treatments that we're all pretty conversant with the (contrived) ins…
Academia is one of the last places on earth where one can expect innovation on the subject of marijuana. Still, this Spring, Sonoma State University…