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Posts published in “Day: January 8, 2014

Off The Record (Jan 8, 2014)

THE US NATIONAL WEATHER Service has posted a photo of an empty Lake Mendocino. A drought of the 1975-76 magnitude is upon us. TUESDAY, the Supervisors, led by Carre Brown and John Pinches, declared a…

Valley People (Jan 8, 2014)

THE NEW YEAR used to be celebrated in Boonville with gunfire and low intensity explosions commencing, it always seemed, at nightfall. No more. We're a pretty tame bunch anymore. The anarchic sectors of The Valley's…

‘At No Cost To You’?

Exactly one week before Christmas I received a bill in the mail from the Mendocino Coast District Hospital for $2,635.47. Immediately after arriving home from the post office, I called the hospital’s billing department. I spoke at some length to two women who worked there.

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