A small town priest is killed. A suspect is apprehended. Then all hell breaks loose.
Posts published in January 2017
Between Storms;
Woodhouse Resigns;
Attempted Murder;
DA Award;
Pleasing Dad;
Skaggs Springs;
Little Dog;
Bypass Effects;
Undercover Transient;
Nelson Retires;
Standing Rock;
Yesterday's Catch;
Democratic Stables;
Laminated Timber;
Criminal Neighbor;
Cornball Empire;
Three Poets;
Broadband Meeting;
Hyperreality;
Deadbeat Treat;
Dam Release
MOST ENCOURAGING ELECTION: Fort Bragg City Council, Mayor Lindy Peters. LEAST ENCOURAGING: Point Arena where city councils new and old think a part-time city manager at $50,000 a year is necessary to run a town…
Just south of Healdsburg on the east side of Highway 101 was the Campbell Ranch. Almost every resident of Healdsburg and many on the North Coast knew the ranch with the friendly two-story house sitting…
So many cubes of braised tofu, countless Hunan broccoli specials; turned out they could legitimately be written off and called research. Frequenting of Sino-American eateries, from an IRS perspective, had been strictly recreational — until…
In my mind’s eye, I see Jerry running along the fence line, snapping at the tolerant Malamute neighbor. An incongruous pair, Jerry is a 12-pound short-legged Jack Russell with a coat somewhere between broken and…
The internet cannot convey how big the New York Times played the story headlined "Beneficiary of Electroshock Therapy Emerges as its Leading Evangelist" in the January 1 print edition. The top half of the page…
Prisoners, like the elderly and latter-day Luddites, are traveling way, way off the information superhighway. Me even employing a zero-currency term like “information superhighway” tells you just how far off the beaten path me and…
Having been a subscriber and avid reader of the AVA for the past 26 years, I’ve read my share of batshit crazy letters from people in the Letters to the Editor Section. I’ve even written a few myself.