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 title of this installment is an ambiguous expression that dates…
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 more or less taken for granted schedule, established by growers…
“I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me.” — Woody Allen So…Melky Cabrera, the star outfielder of our San…
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 grew up pawing through heaps of sea glass, at Fort…
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 about 3,500 acres, bringing the total acreage consumed by the…
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: a federal Indian reservation off Highway 20 near Nice, grudgingly…
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 in the Anderson Valley for many years before moving to…
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, failure to process timely complaint by Captain Randy Johnson, failure…
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 on the technical assistance and financing needs of business and…