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Posts published in February 2015

Memo of the Year (1957)

A big right-hander and a pint-size lefty gave Marin County baseball fans some excitement to talk about last night in the opening of the fourth annual Marin County baseball tournament at Albert Field in San Rafael. Both pitchers had to work for their victories as the regulation games went over the seven inning limit.

Sebastopol v. Winery

After the Sebastopol City Council heard from two-dozen residents on Feb. 3 -- all of whom spoke against the huge Dairyman Winery and Distillery proposed for Highway 12 -- it unanimously and vigorously opposed the…

Mendocino County Today: Thursday, Feb 12, 2015

Citizen's Arrest in Potter Valley;
PUC Peevey Party;
Catch of the Day;
Downed Trees;
Pinoleville Confusion;
Lynching Map;
Hare Creek Appeal;
Timber Baron;
Bumperstickers;
Water Polluters;
Big Oil's Influence;
Ban Fracking

Building Solariums

The barometric pressure is falling on a Sunday afternoon. I can feel it in my bones as I gaze out the window at the evergreen holly branches dancing in the breeze. The skies darken. I've…

Letters (Feb 11, 2015)

This letter is to officially ask those of you who farm at night to cease creating noise that keeps your neighbors, including schoolchildren and other farmers, awake between the hours of 10 PM and 7 AM. We request that you cease all of these activities as they are a detriment to public health and are causing extreme anxiety, anger and frustration to hundreds of residents of Anderson Valley. Please respond to this letter with your intentions on these matters so that we may know how to best work together for the good of the valley.

Sailing the Cowpie to San Francisco (1970)

One of the more interesting women I met anchored out was Diane Allen from Memphis, Tennessee. I was enchanted by her southern accent, and I couldn’t resist her dimpled smile. She taught classes on how…

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