Press "Enter" to skip to content

Posts published in January 2022

First Settler Descendant: Bob ‘Chipmunk’ Glover

Bob Glover’s ancestors were true pioneers in the Euro-American settlement of Anderson Valley.  And the fact motivated his personal ambitions and worldview since his youth. After the 1849 Gold Rush seven Swiss-German families left their…

Ralph’s Wandering Days

Ralph Bostrom has been writing Letters to the Editor to the Anderson Valley Advertiser for years. Now in his 90s he’s an involuntary resident of a senior assisted living facility in Willits. For being an…

Mendocino County Today: Saturday, Jan. 1, 2022

Cold Sunny | Conga | Arrest Video | Hoak Ranch | 2021 Deaths | EMT Course | Pot-Admin Expansion | Crab Feed | Moorman's Decision | Noyo 1880 | Kelp Harvesting | Mouth Open | Yorkville Appeal | Albion 1904 | Apocalypse Eve | Afterparty | PV-Flow Requests | Yesterday's Catch | Eureka Is | Grammar Worksheet | Maxwell Prosecution | Cold Blood | Omicron OMG | Orientation | 2022 Prognostication | MacCallums | Denial & Complacency | Hoover Undercover | Marco Radio | Betty White | Happiest Possible | Shriner Seance

Joan

Before I had any idea of who she was, I had seen Joan Didion on the stairs of the four-story Manhattan walkup where we both lived. It was a creaky old building that had somehow…

The History of the Emerald Cup

The Emerald Cup was founded in 2004 from a fledgling few weed growers who gathered informally at Area 101 in Laytonville to share their grow tips and buds on the down low without public knowledge,…

-