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Posts published in April 2024

Mendocino County Today: Sunday 4/28/24

Sunny | Starts | Body Found | Covelo Towers | Hendry Case | Vet Forum | Successor Superintendent | Web Dew | Road Money | Pet Bobbie Sue | Still Relevant | Westport Shore | Wildflower Show | AVA Archives | Redwood Sap | Lydia Animals | Yesterday's Catch | Totally Available | Nursing Homes | State Farm | Marco Radio | Don't Flush | Warmongering Liars | Let's Eat | Draft Names | I'm Somebody | Tourons | Aprons | McKoy Twins | Native Plants | Student Protests | AI Reaper | Citizen Insult | Not Hired | Domestic Violence | Big Tree | Witch Trial | Peak District

Valley People (April 28, 2024)

IN PRAISE OF RENEE LEE. Anybody who's been around a newspaper will remember that paste-up meant printing out long columns of marching gray on a pre-cyber machine, rolling the backs of the cols with a…

Justice Court Adventures

Not long before the Anderson Valley Justice Court was folded into the County Courthouse, Ukiah, a young man charged with driving on a suspended license asked to have his case postponed until the courtroom had…

Mendocino County Today: Saturday 4/27/24

Sunny | Barn | Contested Station | Trash Boat | Author Talk | ABC Suspension | Grazing | The Observer | Songbird Busking | Celebrating Irv | Groundwater Study | Wildlife Discussion | Streetscape Forum | Grange Rental | Seabiscuit Statue | Ed Notes | Plant Sale | Palatial Bummer | Tribal Health | Useful Exercise | Rogue PG&E | Exit Date | Cautionary Tale | Throwing Money | Relapse Happens | SNWMF 2024 | Feeding Hummingbirds | Inner Jim | Yesterday's Catch | No Leaders | Think Tank | Marco Radio | Misfits | Mausoleum Marilyn | Mitt History | Social Slavery | Prefontaine Ran | Sunday Baseball | Forbidden Passion | Oppenheimer Omission | Rather Eat | Summer Fun | Fried Oreo | Not Antisemitic | Expensive Dames | Rushdie Interview | Smoky Lady

San Francisco Weed Week: A Personal History

When I grew marijuana in northern California from about 1977 to 1986, I did not once think or imagine that one day it would be legal to do so. I was not a cannabis activist…

Anderson Valley Roots: The Burgess-Prather Story

One of Anderson Valley’s earlier pioneers was William Prather, born on a farm near “old” Vernon in Jennings County, Indiana. His father, John Lloyd Prather, had been born on the same farm in 1801. William's…

Mendocino County Today: Friday 4/26/24

Showers | Hopping Elk | Oregon Suspect | Robert Calson | Tree Cutting | Student Volunteers | County Notes | Meth House | Ukiah Construction | Plant Sale | Train Plans | Petit Teton | Dos Rios | Ed Notes | Garden Tips | Newman Corrections | Liberty Swap | Best Weekly | Dust Bowlers | Depressing News | Yesterday's Catch | Bottle Bill | Dog Sense | Religious Confusion | Tucker Look | Dem Backfire | Plucking Chickens | Awesome Buffet | Fake Electors | Cancel Culture | Columbia Protests | Romani People | Yew Tree | Not Busy | Coke Plastic | Blowing Corn | NPR Crisis | Oxford Canal

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