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Posts published in June 2010

Valley People

SATURDAY NIGHT, June 12th, Anderson Valley's Community Chorus presents its annual Spring Concert at Lauren's Restaurant, 9pm. If you get out to one event all year, you won't go wrong with this one. LAST THURSDAY…

Off the Record

IT'S NO SURPRISE that the County's retirement system is in trouble. Years of fishy accounting practices, more years of the fundamentally false assumption that capitalism would make more money for everyone forever, lavish payouts to…

Mendo’s Quirky Early Vote Totals

There were some interesting things about Tuesday's very preliminary election results which should not go unnoticed.

Letters to the Editor

SOFTPOCALYPS NOW Greetings Editor: News From An Alien Planet: Certain signs of the upcoming “soft-pocalypse.” It's sort of like the future “Hard Apocalypse,” but with training wheels. • Increased energy bills but less energy. •…

Happy Birthday CSD!?

By some counts this is the 40th anniversary year for the Anderson Valley Community Service District. Last winter directors approved a celebration of the event. A committee was formed. Ideas were solicited. The event turned…

Farm To Farm

The hay fever kicked in this year before I started mowing hay, the lateness mostly due to the rains. They originally said we were supposed to get six inches last Friday, then three inches, then…

Lives & Times of Valley Folks: Karen Ottoboni

As I drove up the Yorkville Ranch Road to the upper reaches of High Roller country the scenery became increasingly spectacular. At the very top I could see into three counties and, if it had…

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