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 school teachers and churchgoers, parents and children, all of them…
Posts published in August 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 he lived in Anderson Valley. Don died last week in…
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 the school swore with such fluency and vehemence I was…
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 where she had SoCo's criminal scumdogs quivering in their paws.…
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 with the proposed cuts there’s been lots of talk at…
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 pagan early harvest holiday, Lughnasa — a good way to…
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 and tendriled charges instead. Scoffing at amateurs who swear by…