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Posts published in March 2013

Naked In The City

Last Saturday about a half dozen naked men came biking down the street towards Golden Gate Park. Two had skimpy jockey shorts on, another had…

River Views

The dog that wouldn’t die and the dog story that won’t quit — that’s what is currently bedeviling the Fort Bragg Police Department. The good…

Route 66

As I peruse the many articles decrying the ruination of towns and independent businesses by big box stores such as Walmart, and I read about Ukiah groveling at the feet of Costco and wasting millions of precious dollars to bring that destructive horror show to town, I recall that the largest assault on the remarkably diverse and egalitarian America of the 1960’s (egalitarian compared to America in 2013) was the construction of the Interstate Highway System

The Beauty Of Nature

Soon after we arrived in Anderson Valley in 1957, my father nailed a couple of elk horns onto the trunk of an oak tree in…

The Thrill Of The Now

It was fitting that Rafael Puyana, the Colombian harpsichordist who died on March 1st in Paris at the age of 81, should have made his…

Mendocino County Today: March 20, 2013

SUPERVISOR JOHN PINCHES, according to Willits News staff writer Linda Williams, told the Brooktrails Community Services District last Tuesday that at least one supervisor favors…

Bypass Blockades Continue

In the past three weeks, construction crews employed by CalTrans on five occasions have rolled out big machines with the intention of installing construction fencing,…

Year Of The Concentrate

The Winter/Spring 2013 issue of O'Shaughnessy's came out with a page-one article by Jeffrey Hergenrather, MD, under the headline “Use of 'Dabs' Gaining Popularity.” It…

Off The Record

ABOUT 75 PEOPLE opposed to Caltrans’ plans for a bypass around Willits responded to a “high alert” call from Save Little Lake Valley to show…

Valley People

DEBORAH SARSGARD has had to resign from her position as CSD trustee while she fights off cancer. Ms. Sarsgard is presently resting at a nursing…

Crime & Punishment

The week started out with two jury trials on Monday, but by early Tuesday both cases were out the window. The first one was a DUI wherein the defendant, Joshua Pollard, had reached across from the passenger seat and grabbed the wheel while his girlfriend was driving, causing a crash into another vehicle.

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