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Posts published in September 2013

Mendocino County Today: October 1, 2013

DOUG MCKENTY has been fired by KZYX. An affable young family man who lives in Elk, McKenty was offed ostensibly because someone dropped the F-bomb…

Mendocino County Today: September 30, 2013

I'VE GOT IT! I know how to make the America's Cup an interesting event, an event for real boats and real sailors, not these water…

Mendocino County Today: September 29, 2013

JOHNNY PINCHES’ LAST ACT by Bruce Anderson Johnny Pinches has announced he will not run for another term as Third District Supervisor. Pinches, a Laytonville…

Mendocino County Today: September 28, 2013

HUGE TURNOUT Friday afternoon at the Fort Bragg Senior Center in support of the Center's director, Charles Bush. The four women who'd engineered Bush's dismissal…

Mendocino County Today: September 27, 2013

FORT BRAGG MAN MURDERED WEDNESDAY NIGHT IN SAN FRANCISCO. The following is reported by the Bay Area News Group: “The storied rivalry between the Giants…

Mendocino County Today: September 26, 2013

BACK-TO-BACK jive stories from the Press Democrat on Tuesday and Wednesday. Tuesday, Glenda Anderson reported from Ukiah that the SEIU one-day strike was a great…

Airstrikes & Organs

When I hear talk of air strikes I think of Dresden, and not just because, like so many American school kids I had to read…

Creatures Great & Not So Great

In my years in Anderson Valley, from the late 1950s to the late 1980s, I experienced plenty of local wildlife: a sea of baby toads…

Lauren’s Favors Local Flavors

One afternoon when I was eating lunch with Barbara Goodell at Lauren’s Restaurant I overheard Barbara and Lauren discussing a story that was to be…

Bird’s Eye View

Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably then I shall begin. So we had a little rain, eh? Got to be good news…

Why Do They Call You…?

There’s not a month that goes by that someone doesn’t ask me, “Why do they call you Chili Bill?” I feel the time has come…

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