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Posts published in August 2011

Bird’s Eye View

Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably then I shall begin. Coming up on the ballot in November will be the election of new school board members. There are already some very interesting…

Farm To Farm

Grandpa and Grandma stopped by our little homestead, rolled up the driveway in their luxury sedan, all spiffed up in Sunday duds to offer my teenaged son, Craig, and I a ride to church. “Lupe,…

Flow

“Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting what you are doing. This is the ultimate.” — Zhuangzi Something happened to me a few days ago the likes…

A Memoir: The Fortunate Son, Part 17

My attorney finally showed up and filled me in on what was going on. The feds had convened a grand jury to hammer my old friend, BL. The rat in this instance was “Cricket,” a…

The Struggle For Rattlesnake Island

The oldest human remains so far discovered in California belong to the Elem Pomo Nation who have lived on the eastern and southern shores of the Clear Lake basin for at least 10,000 years, also…

Horoscopes

Laura Hamburg’s application for her Boonville pot dispensary has shot her father in his Supervisorial foot; it has removed the Pot Brigade's most pot-friendly Supervisor from the rule drafting process.

Community Services District: No Pot Store Next Door

CSD Director Kirk Wilder was adamantly opposed to the dispensary idea, forthrightly describing medical marijuana as “a bunch of crap” — meaning that he thinks most “medical” marijuana smokers have no real medical condition that pot will help.

Inviting Trouble

The union rally on the Courthouse lawn last Thursday nearly turned into a brawl. The Service Employees International Union Local 1021, representing Ukiah Courthouse employees, had brought in a circus tent and a DJ and…

Valley People

LILA KNIGHT has died. Lila, the last of the Anderson Valley Pomos, was the wife of the late Art Knight. The Knights lived for many years near Lemons Market in Philo. Art Knight worked for…

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