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Posts published in “Day: October 17, 2012

Sports Notes

The SF Giants defeated the Cincinnati Reds, 3-2 in the Divisional 5 game series last week. Interestingly, the Giants lost the first two games at…

Bird’s Eye View

Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably I shall begin. What better place to start than to announce that it gives me great…

Old Home Week At The NORML Confab

Trim, white-haired Tom Hayden gave a talk at the NORML conference in Los Angeles last week. NORML is the National Organization to Reform the Marijuana…

River Views

The first white people to settle this place alongside the Albion River were treated with kindness by the Pomo who periodically camped on a portion…

Autodelusion

In 1950 the journal Mind featured a curious proposal for determining if a computer could think. Submitted by code-breaker and computing pioneer Alan Turing, the…

Inventing Ourselves

“You don’t have to suffer to be a poet. Adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.” — John Ciardi My last few trips to the village…

The Struggles Of Local Sacred Sites

It was 520 years ago this week that a lost Italian seaman flying the Spanish flag washed ashore on the Bahama Islands, three-quarters of a…

The Night Jamal Died

In his opening statement Tuesday in the murder trial of Billy Norbury, Mendocino County District Attorney David Eyster described for the jury the “nightmare” scenario…

Citizen O’Brien’s Right To Petition

I, Dennis O’Brien, hereby declare: My name is Dennis O’Brien. I am a resident of Mendocino County, at least 18 years of age, and a…

Off The Record

A FEDERAL TASK FORCE raided the Potter Valley family property of Mendocino County Under-Sheriff Randy Johnson last Thursday (October 11th). The raid team included DEA,…

Valley People

RYAN J. WALLIS, 32, of San Francisco, has been arrested for suspected drunken driving and vehicular manslaughter in the death of his younger sister in…

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