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Posts published in October 2013

Mendocino County Today: October 16, 2013

STRONG TYPHOON HEADING FOR JAPAN AND FUKUSHIMA NUKE SITE News-Asia/Agence France-Presse in Tokyo — A typhoon described as the “strongest in 10 years” was closing in on Japan on Tuesday, on a path that will…

I Have Always Been Afraid Of Men

When I was a child, I wrote “I hate Daddy” on the flowered yellow wallpaper above my bed in my room in Baltimore. When my friends asked why and how I'd gotten away with this,…

Valley People

A PAIR of smash and grab car break-ins Sunday evening, one in central Boonville in front of the Hotel, one on Anderson Valley Way at the apartments. Deputy Walker said the two robberies occurred “sometime…

The Fight Is Everywhere

This past December 22nd, more than a month before The Warbler began a 65-day occupation of a Ponderosa pine in the southern part of the boggy town of Willits, CA, British forest defenders occupied trees…

Tweakers & The Women Who Love Them

The DA’s ace trial lawyer, Matt Hubley, has resigned. He has removed his services, himself and his handsome family to Sonoma County where he will be working for his former associate here in Mendocino County,…

River Views

For the past couple of months this column has been following a young man from the Mendocino Coast named William and his encounters with Mendocino County’s mental health system. William suffers from schizoaffective disorder and…

A KZYX Manifesto

My name is Doug McKenty and I have been volunteering at KZYX for the last seven years. I began as an engineer for my Tai Chi teacher on a program called “Mind, Body, Health,” which…

Showtime At KZYX

The October 7th meeting of the KZYX Board of Directors took place at the Anderson Valley High School before a standing room only public audience. The 25 people crowded into the small classroom included a…

Off The Record

MENTAL HEALTH ACTIVISTS are appalled that the County's recent privatization of mental health services, always problematical in Mendocino County, seems to have eliminated mental health services in Fort Bragg. The Ortner Management Group, based in…

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