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Posts published in March 2014

Joyce Murray

An elegant, unfailingly pleasant woman, Joyce Murray, lived a long and full life, some of which Joyce, who passed away last week, shared with Steve Sparks and the readers of this newspaper in 2009. In…

Mendocino County Today: Thursday, March 13, 2014

Naval War Games -
Stornetta Dedication -
Hound Hunting -
Goldeneye Slurping -
Need For Plausibility -
Missing Airliner -
Galletti Runs -
Probation In Jeopardy -
Feinstein Doesn't Like It -
Tunnels? Frack No!

Bird’s Eye View (Mar 12, 2014)

“The Turkey Vulture has landed,” as someone very famously once said. And I’m very pleasantly shocked to see how green everything is! When I left these shores a few short weeks ago all was brown and dry.

God Helps Those…

Adventist Health System West runs hospitals. Like Frank R. Howard in Willits. And Ukiah Valley Medical Center. “We reflect God’s love to our community” its tax returns claim. “By providing physical, mental, and spiritual healing.”…

Mountain Outin’ To Yellowstone

There’s no sensation like being rocked to sleep in a berth on AMTRAK as the miles fly by to put a relaxing end to a vacation. The fact that the trip featured snow, rain, icicles,…

Hollywood Space Cadets

There is no more oxygen-hungry corner of the cosmos than Hollywood on Academy Awards night. Consumption of the life-sustaining substance reaches dangerously high levels each year on the first Sunday evening of March in the…

The New Yorker

When I was in my twenties I sent dozens of my short stories to The New Yorker with no success, and when I was in my early thirties, after my first two novels garnered stellar reviews in the Briefly Noted section of The New Yorker, I was emboldened to resume sending them my short stories through my agent, the incomparable Dorothy Pittman, and again I had no success.

CANDIDATE LIST 2014

The County has posted a list of all candidates for the June 2014 elections as of the closing date last week: http://www.co.mendocino.ca.us/acr/pdf/CANDIDATE_LIST_Final_June_2014.pdf

REPUBLICANS TO MEET IN FORT BRAGG

The Mendocino County Republican Central Committee will meet Saturday, March 22, 2014, 10:00 AM  - 12:00 Noon at the Moura Senior Housing, 400 South Street, Fort Bragg, CA 95437.  For further  information contact: Stan Anderson,…

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