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.
Posts published in June 2013
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 fishing and hunting. Camping and backpacking were my primary outdoor…
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 with her classmates, had previously bought a single ticket to…
Worst of all — although there can be some pretty bad among the rest — is the travel. Specifically, the airports and airplanes. The insanely long “security” lines are now even longer, as personnel has…
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 fire was knocked down shortly before 5pm before it spread.…
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.
Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably then I shall begin. It’s going to get very warm. I could be wrong of course, and my weather guru Dave Gowan is no longer around…