Clint Smith's lawyer, Mark Kalina, asked, “Everyone here for Clinton Smith please stand.” Almost everyone in the packed Willits courtroom last Tuesday, stood. There were…
Posts published in “Day: August 12, 2009”
MANY LOCALS will remember Don Pierce, and remember him fondly as a friendly, neighborly man who always made time for his community in the years…
Last week the Anderson Valley High School was tagged in two brazen raids that left many locals spitting mad. One custodian I spoke with at…
CHIEF DEPUTY District Attorney Jill Ravitch, pronounced Ravvvvvvitch! with teeth bared through the v's, Mendo’s most experienced trial attorney, came to us from Sonoma County…
Mendocino County is broke, and broker by the day. All branches of County government, including the Sheriff's Department, have been forced to cut expenditures. Along…
POLKABILLY IN THE REDWOODS Editor, Scotia's fourth annual “Rock-a-Billy in the Redwoods Festival” the first weekend of August had a Celto-Slavic theme celebrating the ancient…
Professional gardeners are a peculiar lot who often seem to make up for their failings at friendship with fellow humans by turning to their mute…
We are now at the high tide of the summer tourist season in Mendocino, the streets of the village awash in visitors from more populous…
Six members of the AV Future Farmers of America represented the chapter well both in and out of the show ring. The six boys showed…
My grandfather had a thing for peanut butter. He ate it by the spoonful. It couldn’t be just any peanut butter. It had to be…
In retrospect we can see what a lucky fellow Barack Obama was to have had, during his run for the presidency last year, a radical…