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Posts published in May 2025

Keep Movin’

I was born with control. I take two awful hot baths a day. I keep movin’ all the time on the diamond — and I eat nothin’ but fried food. Why does my arm last…

Mendocino County Today: Monday 5/5/2025

Sunny | Bacon Caught | Bomber Caught | FB Protest | Awards Ceremony | Art Exhibit | AVUSD News | Jazz Band | Drum Circle | BBQ Boonville | Ed Notes | Blues Festival | The Mackerrichers | Benefit Dinner | Yesterday's Catch | Weed or Wine | Fat City | Cinco de Mayo | Making Contact | Shorty Works | Rand Books | Uncle Puckie | Venceremos | A Cow | Stay Alert | Warriors Win | Giants Win | Alcatraz Dream | Original Joe's | Digital Newspapers | Kezar Stadium | Roosevelt Legacy | Sex Ed | Southern Myth | Portrait | Maga Base | Lead Stories | Qatarland | State Media | Camo Box | Journalists | Budget Proposal | Kinda Corny

Announcements 5/5/2025

UNITY CLUB NEWS by Miriam Martinez April showers bring May Wildflowers; just in time for the annual A.V. Unity Club's Wildflower Show May 3rd & 4th in June Hall at the Boonville Fairgrounds.  Doors open…

In The Lower Deserts [August 2001]

Cactus Smuggling and Other Adventures… I stood alongside two Mexican tourists looking through a chainlink fence at an enormous hole in the ground. Somewhere near the New Mexico/Arizona line it was maybe half a mile…

Mendocino County Today: Sunday 5/4/2025

Northerlies | Spencer York | Ukiah Concerns | Noyo Turtles | Old Wound | Local Events | Pet Bingo | Library June | Shred Event | PD Blindsided | Mural Project | NPR/PBS Cuts | Ocean View | Marco Radio | Walton Merch | Ed Notes | Bigfoot | Yesterday's Catch | Helpless Slaves | Eat Whatever | Dave Brubeck | Nazi Treatment | Bee Plea | Direct Action | SF Wildlife | Shasta Geology | Too Much | Giants Win | Political Judgment | Garden Gate | Couple Bachers | Seven Nighthawks | Groupthink Bureaucracy | Papal Don | Rushing Matters | NYT Analysis | Banjo Man | Physical Therapists | Lead Stories | Self Respect | Bridge Collapse | Keyboard Energies | Scaffold

Valley People 5/4/2025

AV BREWING CO. We’re excited to support the 40th Annual Boontling Classic 5k Footrace, coming up this Sunday, May 4th, at 10am! The race starts and finishes at the Anderson Valley Elementary School, and proceeds…

Cry Me A River: Bach’s Sustainable Hydropower

Water is a frequent image in Bach’s music. Placid rivers sing the praises of enlightened monarchs. Other streams rush by, murmuring their eternal truths of earthly life’s fleeting nature. Elsewhere, storms rise up, from strafing…

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