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Posts published in January 2014

The Rebel

When I was 18 years old a bookseller in Valencia clandestinely offered me, under the counter, a red-covered copy of Camus’s book Summer, which had been printed in Argentina. It came wrapped in brown paper and I read it in a hammock surrounded by the sound of cicadas and the odor of pine needles, sweltering in the summer heat.

The River & The Thread

Rosanne Cash’s last CD was called The List; an album of covers released in 2009 and drawn from a list given to her by her father of his one hundred essential country songs. The Man…

Pete Seeger Dies

Tributes have poured in honoring American troubadour, folk music singer and activist Pete Seeger, who has died in New York aged 94. Musicians, fans, campaigners and activists paid tribute to the singer of Where Have All The Flowers Gone and Turn, Turn, Turn, honouring his dedication to fighting for environmental and anti-capitalist issues.

Mendocino County Today: January 28, 2014

A STORM blowing over the Pacific Ocean is expected to hit Northern California late Wednesday, bringing about a quarter inch of rain to the Northcoast over two days, according to the National Weather Service. "It's…

Mendocino County Today: January 27, 2014

THE FIRST REAL RAIN in nearly two months could hit later this week, ending an otherwise bone-dry January, forecaster Mike Pechner of Golden West Meteorology said Sunday. Pechner said the Northcoast could get as much…

Mendocino County Today: January 26, 2014

DROUGHT NOTES: It is easy to forget that the only natural force over which we have any control out here is water, and that only recently. In my memory California summers were characterized by the…

Mendocino County Today: January 25, 2014

SO MUCH WATER is moved around California by so many different agencies that maybe only the movers themselves know on any given day whose water is where.

Mendocino County Today: January 24, 2014

WILL PARRISH TAKES TWO-YEAR INFRACTION PLEA DEAL by Tiffany Revelle Willits bypass protester Will Parrish took a plea deal in Mendocino County Superior Court Thursday in the trespassing case against him stemming from his 11-day…

Mendocino County Today: January 23, 2014

WILL PARRISH is due in Mendocino County Superior Court Thursday morning where, it appears, an announcement will be made that his case has been settled.

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