Travel back again on the wayback machine into the Anderson Valley of my youth and young adulthood from the late 1950s into the 1980s. The…
Posts published in August 2012
Garberville —Pot growers are hauling water early this year, as regional tributaries to the Eel River are drying up ahead of schedule; that is, a…
“I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me.” —…
As an inveterate, sometimes professional, forager, scanning wet sand and gravel for colorful fragments of glass is routine stuff. As far as that goes, I…
CAL FIRE said Tuesday afternoon that the Pass fire burning northeast of Covelo had destroyed four homes and seven outbuildings and had grown overnight by…
For as far back as Clayton Duncan can trace, the maternal side of his family has belonged to the land in and around Robinson Rancheria:…
LAURA WOOD has died at age 64. Laura was sister to Charlotte Triplett and mother of Alex Wood, both of the Anderson Valley. Laura lived…
On August 13, 2012, Mr. Dennis O’Brien, of the Mendocino Environmental Center, filed a $10,000 claim against Mendocino County “for actions of Detective Andrew Whiteaker,…
The supervisors strolled down memory lane at their mid-August meeting, straining to recall that in 2009 they'd received $28,000 “for the creation of a report…