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Posts published in “Day: June 5, 2013

Mendocino County Today: June 6, 2013

HAMBURG CLAIMS DAMAGES FROM THE COUNTY Dan Hamburg's Claim Against Mendocino County [Attorney Barry Vogel's Letterhead] May 28, 2013 To: Thomas Parker, Mendocino County Counsel…

River Views

One hundred thirty-two years ago a Little Lake coroner’s jury reached a finding that my great grandfather’s horse had justifiably shot and killed Benjamin Frost…

James Dean Lives!

Marfa, Texas, of all places. Three hours southwest out of El Paso, Texas, of all places. Los Angeles, Paso Robles, Cholame, CA, Fairmount, IN, Manhattan,…

Prohibition ’37: The AMA Dissents

Continued from last week’s AVA, the 1937 hearing at which the House Ways & Means Committee considered marijuana prohibition.

Beyond Killing The Bees

As Spring merges into summer, our gaze turns to our lawns, and we are tempted to envision green carpets and lawnmowers… and poisons. Craneflies, those…

Worlds Collide

In search of good chicken for our once-a-week intake of animal flesh, I saunter into our magnifico Mendocino Market across the street from Mendocino’s blessed post office, my basket laden with the latest edition of the admirable Anderson Valley Advertiser, and I find the lovely little market and deli in the midst of a calm before the inevitable lunchtime arrival of legions of tempestuous teenagers and loquacious locals and inscrutable turistas.

Rod & Gun

During my years in Anderson Valley, which began in the late 1950s and continued to the late 1980s, the most popular local outdoor recreation was…

Valley People

JESSICA CEJA is a student at Anderson Valley High School where the school's Junior Prom was held last Saturday night.  Jessica, a gregarious girl popular…

Paris

Worst of all — although there can be some pretty bad among the rest — is the travel. Specifically, the airports and airplanes. The insanely…

Mendocino County Today: June 5, 2013

AS OF 3PM Tuesday afternoon, firefighters were having a heckuva time knocking back a grasslands fire in the area of milemarker 39, Yorkville. Breaking: The…

How CalTrans Sold The Willits Bypass

A few weeks ago, Julia French released a concise, well-crafted video called “How CalTrans Sold the Willits Bypass” that focuses on the ways in which the project is based from top to bottom on misinformation.

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