This Week: Humboldt's dingbat brigade, SoCo's wine juggernaut, Low Gap's remodeling plan and much more
Posts published in February 2011
SUNDAY NIGHT about 8, there was a knife assault by one kid on another at the Lifeworks Group Home, Fitch Lane, Boonville. The 16-year-old aggressor attacked a much larger 17-year-old. The victim sustained several wounds…
NO TEARS FOR HERB Dr. Herb Ruhs, It is sadly disappointing that you blame your own error on the hard-working women providing an irreplaceable service to our community for what others choose to do around…
Members of a newly-organized group have vowed to stop the Richardson Grove realignment project and they’ve carried out their first act of civil disobedience. Six protesters who linked themselves together in metal lockbox sleeves were…
World-class violinist Joshua Bell played at Centennial Hall just a few blocks down the street in Tucson last weekend. Bell doesn't just play a mean fiddle. He is also a savvy marketer. His record company…
I met with René Murat Auberjonois (English pronunciation: oh-BUR-zhen-WAH) a week or so ago at his beautiful home with quite stunning Valley views from the foothills on Deer Meadow Road, east of Boonville. He kindly…
Halfway into his recent nonstop 2-hours-plus set at San Francisco’s fabled Fillmore, Willie Nelson eased into one of his more romantic hits, “You Were Always on My Mind.” Begging for another chance with a neglected…
Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably I shall begin. The Super Bowl Party at a large white house in Washington DC attended by the Valley’s very own Robert Mailer Anderson, included many…
“If a man love the labor of any trade, apart from any question of success or fame, then God has called him.” Robert Louis Stevenson So… some extremely wealthy and astoundingly unimaginative people have now…