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Posts published in February 2014

Bright Eyes, Good Brain

It’s said that Shirley Temple is responsible for one of Graham Greene’s least good but most Catholic novels The Power & The Glory. In the late 1930s an impoverished Greene, scrounging for rent money, became the…

The Brotherhood Of The Grape

“California vineyards bring in record crop."  — New York Times, Feb. 16, 2014 (Scene:  Dinner gathering of wine industry business honchos) "OK, good job this year everybody and thanks for turning up here tonite, but…

Mendocino County Today: Wednesday, February 19, 2014

LONG-TIME BOONVILLE RESIDENT, BRUCE HERING, HAS DIED. Bruce was perhaps best known for his portrayals as Uncle Sam at Anderson Valley's annual 4th of July celebrations.

Valley People (Feb 19, 2014)

FOR THE FIRST time since 1958, Shorty Adams is not behind the wheel of a Boonville school bus. Last week, without any announcement from the district, Shorty suddenly left the job he's held for 56…

Assaulting An Officer?

For as far back as Douglas Alan Duncan, 58, can trace, the maternal side of his family has been tied to the land in and around Robinson Rancheria: a federal Indian reservation near the sleepy…

AV Hoops

Well, another week of basketball has come and gone and it should be considered a successful week for the men and women Panther cagers.

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