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Posts published in “Day: October 23, 2013

Mendocino County Today: October 24, 2013

TWO BROTHERS, 8 and 6, were killed near Fort Bragg  about 6:30pm Tuesday when the 8-year-old driver lost control of the ATV he and his…

Letters To The Editor

BARGAIN SAFETY TRAINING Editor- The Anderson Valley Ambulance and Mendocino County Office of Education are sponsoring a 16 week training leading to certification as an…

Heeeeeeeeeeere’s Dino!

This is Dino from somewhere in Mendocino. I might be nuts but I'm no dummy. I'm sure you've seen the Daily Journal of October 10…

Comes Now Epidiolex

In response to urgent need expressed by parents of children with intractable epilepsy, the US Food and Drug Administration is allowing Investigational New Drug (IND)…

The Zeni Ranch

When asked to do this story, I was hesitant as to where to start. So let us start at the beginning. The year was 1894, when Eduino Zeni was granted 120 acres on Fishrock Road, by the U.S. government for homesteading. After clearing the land he built an outhouse and two-room cabin, then planted a vineyard and a small orchard containing figs, apples, and cherries. He then sent a letter home to Austria telling his mother, “I have accumulated a few dollars, bring me a bride.”

The Snapback

Well, at least the poobahs cleared a path to the annual orgy of Christmas, which, along with the S&P 500, have become proxies for the…

Mendocino County Today: October 23, 2013

WE'VE ENJOYED the recent presence of a high school kid, Ms. Mayte Guerrero, as an “intern.” The Anderson Valley Education Foundation paid Ms. Guerrero to…

North To Alaska

After two weeks spent exploring the northlands I think the funniest thing I saw was a bumper sticker that said “I drove the Alaska Marine…

The Fort Bragg Mill Site

For the last dozen years, the Fort Bragg Mill site has been little more than 415 acres of “off limits” shoreline on the town’s western…

Loyalty

My brother, a software systems analyst and project manager, sent me the following quote from the book Gurus, Hired Guns, and Warm Bodies by Stephen…

Poison Oak

In my articles chronicling Anderson Valley from the late 1950s through the late 1980s, I have detailed a variety of native flora and fauna; from…

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