LINCOLN: These are the facts as I know them. Belle Rodriguez was my niece. She was 21 years old. She was killed on May 25 of last year. She was a straight A student in…
Posts published in April 2015
It was a bad day. A monumentally unpleasant, seriously discommoding, entirely disagreeable sort of day. In the Bad Day annals of the Bad Day pantheon, it occupied an honored spot on a tasteful display, dramatically…
Free Fox Terrier. 8 years old, Hateful little bastard. Bites. … Free puppies. Mother is a Kennel Club registered German shepherd; father is a Super Dog, able to leap tall fences with ease. … Cows and calves for sale: Never bred. Also 1 gay bull for sale.
You must sometime experience the irrepressible charm and extensive knowledge of Katy Tahja if only to stand around pretending to look at the books of the Gallery Bookshop in the town of Mendocino while she…
A campaign to end intolerable levels of nocturnal noise entered a new phase in Anderson Valley today, as a citizens group called the Anderson Valley Red Eyes announces the Campaign for Quiet Nights.
Last Friday morning, Judge Richard Henderson opened Mark Scaramella’s frost fan temporary injunction hearing with the usual pro forma, judicial assurance that he'd be fair: “I know that many of you in the courtroom this…
THE SANTA ROSA PRESS DEMOCRAT'S account of Friday's hearing stated that "frost fans have been idle for years." Untrue. The fans were not in place until last year. They are newly introduced. The judge, of…
While the Mendocino County Small Farmers Association, a marijuana group of unclear purpose, has made claims it is also a non profit group, The Willits News could not locate any such registration and a spokesman…
The day before Opening Day of Baseball Season 2015, Lon Simmons died at the age of ninety-one. Lon and his broadcasting partner Russ Hodges were the San Francisco Giants radio announcers when I was a boy and a teenager, and Lon’s voice and laconic style are etched in my memory as deeply as the voice of any close relative.