THE ALARMING NEWS that we could lose our Boonville-based County Fair has us all thinking about strategies to make up the lost state subsidy, an amount of some $200,000 a year. Our first thought was…
Posts published in November 2012
Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably then I shall begin. Thanksgiving is upon us! My favorite holiday of the year when all you have to do is eat, drink, and be merry,…
As reported last week, the 2012 high school boys’ soccer season ended in the “ultimate victory” for Anderson Valley — the post season Championship. However, as regular fans/readers will be well aware, it was a…
Jim Jones's most ardent supporter in San Francisco press circles was Steve Gavin, the San Francisco Chronicle's city editor. A Baltimore native, he joined the Chronicle in 1969. Life in San Francisco agreed with Gavin,…
BONES ROADHOUSE employees are reeling after their beloved, fabulous, authentic, iconic, local money-generating bar-b-que restaurant was closed twice this weekend under a “keeper's levy” through the efforts of the owner of the Shoreline restaurant. This…
THE MENDOCINO COUNTY FAIR, aka The Boonville Fair, is on the ropes, running on fumes, life support, dying. The annual state subsidy of about $215,000 has been cut from the State's budget. Unless the Fair…
ROAD NOTES: North For the Winter; Redux. By Jeff Costello Early morning, a donut shop in Ukiah. I half-stumble from my room at Motel 6, hoping a large coffee will set my internal latitude and…
ACCORDING to an announcement signed “Beacon Staff” or “Advocate Staff,” depending on which of the interchangeable papers you were reading, Connie Korbel is retiring as editor of the two weeklies and former editor Kate Lee…
NOTE: The following press release from the feds earlier this year is related to last week's arrests in Mendocino, but no announcements on the Mendocino arrests have yet to be issued. KANSAS CITY, KAN, July…