Reports are circulating that former city mayors Mari Rodin and Mary Ann Landis have been contacting potential financial backers in an effort to purchase the…
Posts published in September 2014
Recently, there was a reunion of my high school class, a recurrent traditional all-American event I'd always ignored, but for whatever reasons the peer pressure to attend this time came on strong and at the last minute, against my intuition and convictions, I succumbed, bought a plane ticket south, and went. I half-expected frightening reminders of collective aging, puerile nostalgia, embarrassing alcohol-enabled displays of long-repressed urges, ego-fueled career one-upsmanship, excruciating "sharing" of family pictures, and a general outburst of collective regret and confusion.
The Mendocino County Fair and Apple Show 2014 has come and gone. As always I went all three days and what a pageant and procession…
Black Fire Contained;
Redwood Valley Meeting;
Ho School;
Mosswood Layaway;
Welcome Rain;
Travel Budgets;
Local Food Events;
AVHC Board Meeting;
Catch of the Day;
Life Lessons;
911 Truths;
Fiber Crime
Presented by The Mendocino College Agriculture Department and Horticulture Club. Featuring:, Drought tolerant perennial color, Fall Vegetables, California natives, Shrubs and trees, Heirloom and hard…
September 19 - November 13, 2014 Artists' Reception Saturday, September 20, 2014, 5-8 PM Featuring Resident Artist: Robin Burgert Artists: Robin Burgert, Laura Paine Carr,…
I started out to write about something more benign this week, but I can't stand it any longer. Wake Up, Dan Hamburg! Wake the freak…
Madison Bumgarner, the Giants’ formidable leftie known as Mad Bum or simply Bum, stands tall atop the mound on a cool Friday night in September—the…
For the Winnemem Wintu people of the McCloud River watershed (a mighty tributary of the Upper Sacramento River, formed by the southeastern drainage of Mt.…