When I first reached the age of reason and started considering possible career paths, and having abandoned my childhood ambitions of becoming a tiger or a candy manufacturer, I set my sights on two possibilities:…
Posts published in June 2018
Facing questions on potential changes to the Reggae on the River music festival due to new management, boardmembers of the Mateel Community Center have told county planning commissioners that the event’s focus will be on…
Last April, I emailed the editor of the Anderson Valley Advertiser (AVA) and asked if he knew of a place “that makes and serves hippie food.” He replied, “The mother of all ‘hippie food’ emporiums…
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The murder trial for Joshua Ruoff got under way last week after three days of intense jury selection, due to a reluctance on the part of those summoned to spend two weeks of their summer…
MENDO is banking on a wildly improbable time frame and a ridiculous cost to increase the capacity of Lake Mendocino while the much, much larger Lake Sonoma goes virtually untapped.
THE ANDERSON VALLEY is shocked at the sad news that Jason Abbott has died of complications following surgery in San Francisco. A graduate of Anderson Valley High School, Jason, a logger, was injured in a…
Readers of the Anderson Valley Advertiser may remember my “Odd Tree Out” article back in April, which detailed discovery of some young examples of the rare California nutmeg tree west of Philo. Several commented on…
I’m going to WomanUP!® in LA this week. I haven’t done anything like this in a long time; in fact, not since I worked at Century 21 and went to a one-day event. That was about…