Sally Schmitt, who with her husband, Don, opened the French Laundry, the now famous restaurant in the Napa Valley of California, in 1978, and in doing so helped solidify the valley as a food-and-wine destination…
Posts published in March 2022
Hatred for Russia is surging. A University in Italy even cancelled a course on Dostoevsky, one of Russia’s famous writers of the nineteenth century. Looked at differently however, Ukraine is actually turning turning into a…
A friend has two kids in public school, so I apologized to her for the education they’ll not receive, and she went on to tell me what they do when classes let out: Video games. …
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What Happened to the Public Safety Advisory Committee? Remember all the hullabaloo in 2020 and 2021 in the aftermath of the George Floyd murder and the Ukiah PD's awkward encounter with the naked tweaker in…
Ukiah Valley residents have been advised to be ‘very careful’ when burning excess vegetation. An escaped burn pile Monday morning showed just how dry much of the vegetation is in the Ukiah Valley, where local…
The Anderson Valley School Board has placed a school renovation bond, Measure M, on the June 7 ballot. The elementary school, built in 1948 and the High School, built in 1957, have served generations of kids…
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IN A LOT OF WAYS, Mendocino County is like Catherine the Great’s Potemkin Villages, fake-front villages erected on her majesty’s path whenever she went on the road, the idea being to assure Her Greatness that…