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Posts published in “Day: April 13, 2011

Lives & Times of Valley Folks: Wes Smoot

Having had lunch with Wes and his companion, Marianne, at the AV Senior Center a couple of Tuesday’s ago, we adjourned and went over to…

Off the Record

AL WHITE of Husch Vineyards, Philo, was mentioned this way in the Press Democrat of Thursday, April the 7th: “Alfred White, a Ukiah grower who…

Has Trucking Saved Our Salmon?

With an ocean salmon fishing season set to open on April 2nd and fishery managers estimating that coastal waters currently boast more salmon than they…

Young Pot Moms

“Youth is wasted on the young.” — George Bernard Shaw When I and my middle-aged and elderly Mendocino Elk Albion Fort Bragg peers convene, talk…

Wind In The Plastic

Unremarked at last week’s Board of Supervisors meeting were several bracing personal snipes of the purely gratuitous type at a prominent Arcata-based PhD fisheries biologist…

Thanks For The Ride

I was asked to cover the weekly proceedings at Ten Mile Court in Fort Bragg. My vehicle was going to the shop so I had…

Continuing The Motion To Continue

If Mendo’s newest judge wasn’t so thrilled with the implications of the Wuerfel case, it would have been resolved by now. The new judge is…

Valley People

LIKE EVERYONE ELSE who knew Fritz Kuny, I'm really sorry to see him go. Another old logger who began his long life in the Mendocino…

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