The frigid summer trough held steady over this valley as of the weekend, with my neighbors' crops of white corn from Michuacan barely busting out with tassles and silks at a time of August when…
Posts published in August 2010
Skuntown/Willits — Mark Scaramella’s report on the County Supervisors August 3 meeting in Covelo was right on target — a reality-based, bullshit detecting analysis in a few concise paragraphs. The Mendocino National Forest has been…
Contrary to Thomas Wolfe’s dictum, you can indeed go home again. It’s just that there’s no guarantee home will be anything like the way you left it, if in fact it’s still there at all.…
Last week began with a murder trial, but all the excitement was in civil court. Why? A dog. An adorable little dog, so adorable people steal him, go to court over him. Nutmeg is an…
FOR YOUR CRUMB BUM FILES: Boonville High School's newly appointed principal, Jim Tomlin, told Dan Kuny and Rick Wyant they could sign up prospective junior varsity football players the first day of school. Tomlin was…
This week: Tim Lincecum and his pipe, Yo Mama's Big Fat Booty, Mendocino County's man-beater of the week, and much more.
I went to get my hair cut the other day in the town of Fortuna and waited ten minutes while the elderly barber finished buzz-cutting a young Mexican American. After the young man had exited…
DEAR DAN Dear Editor, I'm addressing this letter to a man of stature in our community, former United States Congressman, Mr. Dan Hamburg. He is currently a candidate for the Fifth District Supervisor seat of…