THE GIRLS of my youth never looked like this! Boonville hosted the Sierra Nevada World Music Festival this weekend, as if you could have missed shoals of half-clad rasta-babes in central Boonville. Or quarter-clad. Or,…
Posts published in June 2014
A new political action group that will advocate on behalf of local medical marijuana growers held its first public meeting Monday, June 16, at the Laytonville Grange. The leaders of the Mendocino Cannabis Policy Council…
Shortly before George W. Bush ordered the invasion of Iraq in 2003 to topple our former ally Saddam Hussein, a Sunni strong man, George invited a few learned English-speaking Iraqis to Washington to talk to him about the country he was soon to invade. One of the Iraqis explained that it was essential George understand the ancient enmity between Sunni and Shi’ite Muslims that underpinned every aspect of political and social reality in Iraq and throughout the Middle East. To which our commander-in-chief famously replied, “There’s more than one kind of Muslim? I didn’t know that.”
There is a rumor spreading around town that the location which was the former home of The Boonville Lodge in central Boonville is soon to re-open as an up-market shoe store. Apparently, property owner and #1 on the Valley’s Most Wanted List, Dave “I’m Not Greedy” Johnson, is in negotiations with a couple of San Francisco gentleman who feel there is a need for high-end alligator-skin shoes, crocodile-skin boots, and lizard-skin moccasins etc. These fellows have a secret source for such materials and feel the Valley is the ideal place for their enterprise.
Buckway Arrested;
Negotiators Busy;
Catch of the Day;
Fan Removal;
Navarro Trickle;
Health Center Questions;
Sick Screen;
Copper Campbell;
Deacons for Defense;
Cause and Effect;
Drought Legislation;
Om Om Om
Rasta Report;
Renee's Got It;
Yorkville Life;
Philo Salmon;
Singing Telegrams;
Bigger Brother;
Television Apparition;
Austerity for Kids;
Catch of the Day;
War Pig;
Cannabis News;
Frack Attack
The following link is a PDF copy of the "Notice of Permit Suspension" from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to the California Department of Transportation: WillitsBypassSuspend20JUN2014