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Posts published in May 2012

Letter of the Week

STONED DOGS Dear Editor, There is truth to these stories about “stoned dogs,” temporarily disoriented, unable to move normally. But it's not a dangerous situation, as stated by Glenda Anderson in the 5/17/12 Press Democrat:…

Letters To The Editor

NO SUPERBINKIES Hi Bruce Well I am overjoyed that Japan is going off the absurd nuclear power track. Nuclear is the great hope, banking the planet's future on a toxic power source that really is…

Modern Day Pinkertons

San Francisco's Financial District has been a major locus of mobilization for the Occupy Movement. West Coast Occupy actions began in September of 2011 with a call to “occupy” the downtown because of its geographic…

Austerity

“When we deeply understand that actions bring results, it can motivate us to take active responsibility for our actions and our lives.” — Joseph Goldstein Planting time: kale, lettuce, carrots, peas, beets, broccoli. Hearty potato…

Lives & Times Of Valley Folks: Marvin Schenck

Marvin was born in 1947 in San Francisco, the third of four boys born to parents Fred Orville Schenck and Agnes Anderson. Older brothers Gary and Bill were born in 1940 and 1941 and it…

Obituary For The Mendocino Marijuana Museum

The Mendocino Marijuana Museum is dead. It would have probably died of neglect and lack of funding sooner or later, but its bank preemptively killed it off. It was supposed to be a place where…

River Views

Recent River Views recounted the feud between the Frost and Coates families of Little Lake, the 1867 gunfight that killed Elisha Frost and five Coates men, and the subsequent violence of Frost family members. Mart…

The Luck Of The Iris

I was on the scary side of 65 when I started noticing newsprint a bit blurry, as if my lens was smudged. So I’d clean my glasses, thinking these plastic lenses are nice and light,…

Valley People

A LOGGER was killed early Monday morning at the Navarro end of the Masonite Road. No details of the accident have been released, but we have learned he was employed by Shuster Logging, he 50…

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