On October 6 the Board of Supervisors unanimously approved the 200-unit housing development project south of Ukiah known as “Garden’s Gate.” Ironists traveling Ukiah's State Street north of Garden's Gate will wonder where the garden…
Posts published in October 2009
Daring To Succeed The following is a letter written to Betsy Taylor AVID teacher at AVHS by Veronica Mendoza her former student. Veronica is a student who knew what she wanted and went after it.…
I met Speed Willy at a commune that I lived in. He was a good guy, but he was a late-comer to our commune and wasn’t into the more spiritual side of the commune. There were 120 of us at Harbin Hot Springs in 1969, and Willy was a realist, not spiritual at all.
On the day I arrived in the Bay Area I got to Berkeley just an hour or so too late to catch some films at Gilman presented by the multi-talented and ever-lovely Janelle Blarg, but…
THE STEAMIEST SEX case ever in Mendocino County kicks off Thursday with a pre-trial conference in Ukiah. Already, Judge Behnke is keeping media out, although so far as we know Christina Aanestad is the only…
Plant a wild habitat with California’s own native plants. Saturday’s sale will be held at the Mendocino Coast Botanical Garden from 9am to 2pm and is sponsored by the California Native Plant Society. Wildlife plants…
Some years ago I was working out Clow Ridge and as usual had taken a couple of my kids along. On leaving the job my eight-year-old daughter Dandelion wanted to ride her bike down the…
4/30/1980 — 10/8/2009 Dustin is remembered by his parents Michael Dilley and Bonni Davi and his brother Patrick Dilley who all reside in Boonville. He is also remembered by his aunt Patti Davi of Santa…
Mendocino County natives take for granted something outsiders consider intoxicatingly glamorous, adventurous, and outrageously profitable — the pirate’s dream of going to Mendoland and growing a fortune in weed. The image that many of these…