For many years four parcels of land drew water from springs on Sam Prather's Indian Creek Road property. The water was piped into a tank…
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I watched the movie ‘Need For Speed’ over the weekend. Yes, willingly. I was not strapped into a chair with my glazzies pried open a…
Mendocino, CA. July 17, 2017 — It had all the trappings of the shopworn and thread-bare 1980-something NBC-TV mellow-drama “Murder, She Wrote.” Strange stuff indeed. …
For a long time I lived among educated middle class English who had a passion, verging on sickness, for Panhellenism, a nostalgic look back to classical Greece (without the slaves and bad drainage) as a “second home”.
I was reading at the Headlands Café, waiting for six o’clock to roll around as city councilmen started trudging in one by one to get…
When I get home from my Spanish conversation class, there is a message on my answering machine informing me that my operation time has been changed from 7:00 a.m. on Thursday, May 25 to the same time on Friday, May 26.
As the teenager of liberal, civic-minded parents in the mid-1960s I spent every other Saturday afternoon volunteering at Napa State Hospital. Those mornings I piled…
See if you can spot the common thread from the following selected quotes about marijuana regulation enforcement in northern California. From a Nevada County News…
I woke up this morning with the following phrase rattling around in my head: in the absence of rabbits. I don't know where it came…