Zeke Grader;
Budget Hearing;
Saturday's Game;
Police Reports;
Yesterday's Catch;
Riveting Presentation;
Whistleblower Workshops;
Picking Poems;
Asphalt Creek;
Stop Privatizing;
Mad Sociopaths;
Minimum Wage;
Huff's Decision;
Colbert Review;
Corporate Masters;
Families & Addiction
Posts published in “Day: September 9, 2015”
The overflowing Blanco River tears the heart out of the community.
If prison has taught me anything — and it damn well better have, representing at this point about 23% of my life thus far, a…
Hot Week;
Nino Signs;
Cross Planted;
Bleecker Update;
Fair Entries;
Divide FB;
Ukiah Acres;
Bramstedt's Experience;
Living Different;
Banned Books;
$5/Day;
Climate Optimism;
Outage Survey;
U2 Magnet;
Fresco;
Yesterday's Catch;
Seed Bombs;
Museum Sale;
Global Wine;
Radio Documents;
Power Grab;
Jim Fest;
Packed Out;
COP 21
PHILO HAYWARD has died. The well-known musician made his home in Comptche, but died in La Cruz, Mexico, Sunday afternoon following heart surgery. Hayward lived…
We have a very significant birthday celebration coming up this weekend here in Anderson Valley. Our community’s oldest man, Ross Murray, will be turning 97 years of age. Yes, Ross was born on 16th September, 1918!
I have been using herbicides to control hardwoods, including tan oak, in my redwood forest in Comptche since 1985. I also do thinning and pruning of young trees, and logging, all of which produce dry fuel that can easily burn if ignited. All these forest practices I employ also serve to reduce the potential of a wildfire moving rapidly through my forest because they improve access and break up fire fuel continuity. Every fire season, I am intensely concerned about the possibility of a wildfire, and do what I can to prevent such an event.
Last Wednesday the County Courthouse was something of an old-fashioned media circus. Media ghouls, always keen for second hand blood, were drawn from near and…
“Droughts come and go,” Stroeh tells me on a hot dusty August afternoon. “They’re part of the way we live, though now we also have global climate change, along with extremes such as floods and droughts.” Michael McCarthy, the author of the Man Who Made it Rain, and Stroeh’s biggest fan, argues that there are two obvious truths about hydrology today: “water is the new oil”; and “when water becomes a commodity, wars start.” Wars haven’t broken out yet in Marin but skirmishes have. This summer deputies from the Marin County Sheriff’s office raided commercial pot farms in Nicasio where growers purloined water from adjacent farms and diverted it from streams and springs to irrigate their crops. Then, too, several years ago, residents of Marshall nearly came to blows when Hog Island wanted to dig a new well on the uplands across from highway one.