WHY DOES our soccer team have to forfeit three winning matches at the very beginning of a promising season? Short answer: Because two players were academically ineligible to participate. Long answer: Because two players were…
Posts published in September 2012
TWO WEEKS AGO, as the North Pass Fire raged northeast of Covelo, CalFire received a frantic afternoon call from “a non-English speaking male” who said he was about to be consumed by fast moving flames.…
My aunt and uncle had a small orchard outside the house where I now live and in that orchard are two plum trees that occasionally deliver some of the tastiest plums around - green gage…
FERNDALE HIGH SCHOOL'S football team is on probation this year for fan behavior. On several occasions, oafs have shouted racist insults at visiting teams and their coaches. Ferndale's school superintendent has reacted to the probation…
GREETINGS FROM MIKE & SUZANNE Dear Friends, I thought someone might be interested to know that our insane state prison system has decided that serial killers are not maximum-security inmates. I was convicted of first-degree…
NORTH PASS FIRE UPDATE, as of Saturday, September 8, 2012. CalFire reports that the North Pass Fire remains at 41,983 acres. Containment is steadily increasing and is now at 81%. Firefighters continue to strengthen and…
WITH APOLOGIES TO JENNIFER POOLE of The Willits News who was assigned to announce the town's interim school boss, the kind of assignment that can drive a reporter cross-eyed. DEBRA PEARSON, former superintendent for uninspiring…
FOR THE SECOND DAY running, the North Pass Fire, northeast of Covelo, has remained at 42,000 acres. Containment was holding at 68% Thursday morning, according to CalFire. Lightning started the fire on August 18th some…
ALICE BERNICE CARRISON, 62, hometown not confirmed, died Wednesday at about 11:30 when she jumped, mid-span, from Fort Bragg's Noyo Bridge to the river mouth below, a distance of nearly 100 feet. Ms. Carrison's body…