Supervisors, Community Partners, and Interested Parties: The list of vacancies for County boards and commissions has been updated with new vacancies for the month of April. A complete list of all new and existing vacancies…
Posts published in March 2014
Fort Bragg, CA, March 24, 2014 – Last year, a group of staff members from Thanksgiving Coffee Company visited the farm of Alexa Marín Colindres, a member of the PRODECOOP Cooperative in Nicaragua. They toured…
Chaney Adrift;
Senator, Shrimp Boy in Hot Water;
Cancer Treatments;
Jimmy Carter on Obamacare;
God on Wind Machines;
Pot Doc Disciplined;
Fire Prevention Fee;
Sunshine Week;
Salmon Migrate by Truck
For the last week, between the hours of midnight and sunrise, the spirit of every noise pollution law ever written has been broken by the wine grape growers of the Anderson Valley. Why? How? Because…
Pretty much like today, those – like me – who lived in Anderson Valley from the 1950s through the 1980s depended on cars to get around, pickup trucks to handle hauling (except for logs, lumber…
The recent drought in Northern California made me think of the last one back in the mid-seventies when I was living about six miles up Sherwood Road on a friend’s 20-acre property without electricity or…
As opposed to Robert Frost's two roads diverging in a wood, it is often the convergence of two paths that proves just as unexpected and consequential. I have spent the last weeks of winter and…
Country inhabitants of the Ohio river valley have endured the most arduous winter in memory, at least for people 77 years and younger. While the blizzard of '77 lingers on in family photo albums, with…
John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath (Viking Press, 1939, 619 pp.) turns 75 this year, and for many decades it has been regulated to juvenilia, to high school students, to young people inept at work…