Due to the modern miracle (or curse) that is the Internet, and due to one of its miraculous (or demonic) offshoots, Facebook, an invention which allows people to broadcast their deepest feelings minute-by-minute to friends,…
Posts published in “Day: January 27, 2010”
Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably I shall begin. The much-needed rains continue and it’s very, very muddy out there but so far life in the Valley has been relatively undisturbed, certainly…
I met with Tom at The Boonville Lodge in the heart of Anderson Valley, the bar/restaurant he has owned and operated for the past four years but which has now had to close due to…
This summer Arnold Schwarzenegger mandated the legalization of greywater under emergency drought measures (his best deed ever). The Department of Housing and Community Development wrote the new emergency code. With a few changes it has just been made permanent.
The pastures in our part of the Valley are swarming with opportunistic robins as the soils are saturated and earthworms are strung out like junkies on the surface. “Looks like the robins just migrated into…
Ronald Lee Guenther passed away on January 22, 2010 at home with his family by his side.
Testimony continues in the civil trial of Point Arena School Superintendent Mark Iacuaniello, who's accused of “fraudulent inducement” — hiring principal Matt Murray to improve Point Arena's troubled elementary school then firing Murray after he'd successfully lifted the school from what amounted to state probation.
WHEN 128 COLLAPSED last week and stayed collapsed not far from the Sonoma County line for three days, locals got in and outtahere either by the Ukiah Road or via Mountain House Road through Hopland.…