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Posts published in January 2013

Rewriting Kerouac

“Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.”  — Jack Kerouac More than fifty years after his novel…

The Bear Hunt

One time many years ago Augie, Frank and I were hunting in Trinity County. We started north of the small place named Xenia but there…

‘We Don’t Negotiate With Terrorists’

Back in 1997, Warner Bros applied for a permit to make a movie on the Mendocino Headlands, a state park. According to the summary of…

Off The Record

MENDOCINO COUNTY has seen plenty of bad Supervisors, and we mean “bad” in the conventional sense, the sense that they 1. routinely put their personal…

Boonville To Briceland

It was the longest night of the year, the last night as well, according to the venerable old Mayan calendar, and it was an eerie…

Valley People

GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN: Alex Cockburn Efren Mendoza Vern Piver Aletta Hollister Bruce Longstreet Walter ‘Shine’ Tuttle Arline Day Bobbie Hiatt Jim Isaac Cleo Hixon…

River Views

The newspaper that William and Augie Heeser published for nearly 90 years, The Mendocino Beacon, has become nothing more than a profit margin on the ledger of the corporate conglomerate, Media News Group.

Blam!

'Tis the season for mass murder, fa la la. Nuts and loons go on full auto with weaponry the Founders would not likely have approved…

Mendocino County Today: January 2, 2012

THE FAUX MEDITERRANEAN VILLA that seems to have suddenly materialized near the foot of Nash Mill Road has locals wondering who the lavish phantasmagoria belongs…

Mendocino County Today: January 1, 2013

THE AVA's Steve Sparks and Mendocino County Sheriff Tom Allman have been working together for the last year on a book providing a detailed account…

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