LONG-TIME FIRE DEPARTMENT VOLUNTEER and Boonville battalion chief Jim Minton has retired. Fortunately for us, he will continue to be involved in an advisory capacity and remain available for special projects. This modest man has been a stalwart volunteer for many years of selfless service to Valley residents via all-hours medical aids and fire responses. He has been a gift to us all. At a minimum Minton deserves a plaque on the Fire House wall.
Posts published in January 2018
There have been more than a few paragraphs in this organ devoted to tales of my criminal ineptitude, and that phrase can be interpreted both ways: I am both criminally inept, and a laughably inept…
Stormy Weather;
Last Days;
Basketball Rivalry;
Sunset;
EMS Options;
Little Dog;
Ed Notes;
Ursula Le Guin;
Legal Greed;
Chief Leave;
Kiwis;
Silver Coverage;
Yesterday's Catch;
PG&E Bills;
9/11 Conspiracies;
Lemme Out;
Watershed Caps;
Help Al;
Soccer Academy;
System Collapse;
Old Tunes;
Abalone Song;
1906 Dinner;
Lake Economics;
World Inequality;
Planning Agenda;
Sculpture Ranch;
Immaculate Reconception;
Mr Hearst;
Wastewater Dump;
Medical Ethics
IT TURNS OUT, Mendo is wasting a lot more than $50k on their pot regulation planning/zoning consultant. And it’s more of a waste than we thought. The County is paying $142,000 to Michael Baker International…
LEE HOWARD, the outspoken Ukiah Valley contractor who has been keeping an eye on the Redwood Complex fire clean-up project, wants to know why he was arrested for simply photographing the debris cleanup being done…
Ryan Maxstadt of San Jose was found guilty of attempted murder on a peace officer late Friday afternoon for taking two shots at CHP Officer Ty Lewis near the end of a high-speed pursuit from…
By a 4-0 vote in December the California Fish and Game Commission decided to close the 2018 recreational abalone season because of “ongoing environmental conditions that have significantly impacted the abalone resource.” The closure affects…
Boston, 1967 — My band called The Ones was playing a regular gig at the Brown Derby, five nights a week or something like that. We had been reviewed in a new trade paper called…