The fairest of course! The Anderson Valley Mendocino County Fair and Apple Show is the “Mother of all Mendocino County People Watching Events.” If you missed it this year come with me on a selective…
Posts published in September 2012
ROBERT PARKER, Deputy Director of Mendocino County’s Transportation Department, addressed the Supes last week on behalf of “Rediscover Freedom,” making it clear that he was speaking on his own time. (As a top County bureaucrat,…
The physical geography that First Nations people have historically inhabited conveniently remains a mystery to most people in the dominant society. Seemingly, those willfully ignorant of such knowledge would include everyone in decision-making positions at…
ALL THE RECENT fires in Lake and Mendocino County have been fully contained, CalFire has reported. MISSING PERSONS Kathy LaMadrid and David Neily will be featured Friday afternoon (21st September) 1pm in Mendocino at the…
TWO DEATHS of prominent citizens have cast a pall over the Anderson Valley. Bruce Longstreet passed away early Tuesday morning at his home in Philo, and Efren Mendoza died in Mexico on Friday, August 31st.…
A senior female paused to look at the AVA shirts we were selling, reading out loud to herself, “Fanning the Flames of Discontent.” Then she asked, “What am I supposed to be discontented with?” A…
The first part of last week’s Board of Supervisors discussion of this fiscal year's budget involved a lengthy review of California’s new “criminal justice realignment” and its effect on the County departments. Realignment assigns lightweight…
Juan Orr, 26, maybe of Chico, has libeled two Albion men every which way. Not only libeled them, got them arrested, thrown in jail and, briefly, charged with major felonies. It all started when Orr…
Spotting an acquaintance in an airport can be unsettling. Should you say hello or disappear wordlessly down the concourse? It’s especially awkward when you spot that friend lurking among the smut section in a bookstore/giftshop…