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Posts published in August 2015

Valley People (Aug 5, 2015)

CON CREEK disappeared this week. Ordinarily, the little stream that flows out of the Peachland hills, past the north side of the Boonville Elementary School and on into Anderson Creek sustains at least a trickle…

Bird’s Eye View (Aug 5, 2015)

In today’s world, it seems that we all know too much about each other. Social media has some benefits certainly, but in terms of human development and interaction it’s dumbing us all down, in my humble opinion of course. Do we really need to be constantly reminded what a fantastic time someone is having while eating a ham sandwich?

The Stony Lonesome: Here Kitty

There is a particular type of addict known colloquially as a "garbagehead." I might more appropriately say that there's a general rather than particular stripe of enthusiast known suchly, because the hallmark of a garbagehead…

Hoefest 2015

For several weeks we've had nothing but blue skies, breezes, and low humidity in the Ohio Valley, and the ten-day forecast calls for more of the same. Our climate seems to be headed in a…

Jenny’s Giant Burger

As most locals will know there is a wonderfully unique little burger joint in Fort Bragg at the North end of Fort Bragg called Jenny’s Giant Burger. But many probably do not know the history…

Mommy Dearest

Last Tuesday, July 28th, in what might be called a local sign of the apocalypse, joint child molesters, Charles Griswould and Jacqueline Vanbezooyen-Scarlet, were both, at long last, put away at the end of a…

Off the Record (Aug 5, 2015)

MENDOCINO COUNTY firefighters have filed a citizen initiative to address the danger posed by millions of trees killed and left standing in the forest. ALBION-LITTLE RIVER fire chief Ted Williams explains: "This initiative safeguards firefighters…

Sea Tales

The whaler, Dauphin, cradle-rocked under full sail off the Chilean coast that February morn. Then in the length it takes a breath to spark a babe or silence a codger, the vessel settled. “She's gone…

Water & Power In The Valley Of The Moon

In Roman Polansky’s Chinatown — arguably the coolest movie ever made about the murky political world of H2O — private eye Jake Gittes never nails the man who murders Hollis Mulwray, the chief engineer for…

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