The third weekend in June is upon us, and for the past decade in Boonville that means the Sierra Nevada World Music Festival kicks off…
Posts published in June 2014
THE BOONVILLE GRADUATION drew a large crowd for Anderson Valley, the largest I've seen. Children of Mexican immigrants made up a large majority of the graduates, and the Mexicans turned out in force. The class of 2014 struck me as serious, mature even, especially for high school kids, perhaps because Mexican kids, in the Anderson Valley anyway, are raised in strong, intact families solidly aware of the decadent seductions presented by their adopted country and have worked to inoculate their young against them.
Bryan Kann was so amped on methamphetamine that it would be whole days and many lost nights before he could sleep. And there was nothing at all to do but bounce endlessly around the house, waiting for whatever tweekers wait for. At 3am, Kann found something to do.
COUNTY CEO Carmel Angelo has included a $45,000 remodeling project at the County Jail in the 2014-15 county budget. The re-do will house a dog…
Humboldt County is proposing what’s been described as a down-to-the-bone budget with a $2.7 million deficit and unless new revenue sources emerge, the situation will…
The whole trek would have proved relatively uneventful except for the last two hundred yards of the trail. I was in the lead of five other backpackers, returning to the trailhead. The hiker behind hollered, “Do you see the car?”
Do you shudder at the sight of low-life trailer-trash crankheads driving around in their beat-up Camaros? Do you nod solemnly when one of the big tv news actors presents a piece on how methamphetamine is now the Number One Drug Scourge of the United States? Are you shocked at video footage of police and firefighting personnel in radiation suits removing chemistry lab equipment from innocuous rural dwellings? It's everywhere, isn't it?
Moorman Reversed;
Caltrans Scheduling;
Brown the Knife;
Haight 1967;
Translating Mack;
Library Budget;
Young Son Asking;
Sheriff’s Agreement;
War Racket;
Catch of the Day;
Domestic Violence;
Brazil Protest;
Fred Ross, Organizer;
Why Iraq?;
Grasping at Buds
Aquaponics Using Applied Permaculture--Workshop June 28-29 at Solar Living Institute A self-sufficient system: Weekend workshop provides introductionto exciting new field The Solar Living Institute continues…