I've known a lot of nuts in my life. What's the polite term? "Mentally ill"? "Emotionally disturbed"? "Has issues"? Nah, nuts. That's the catch-all word for…
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Ever wonder why you don’t hear about child abuse until the kid’s dead? After looking into a child-abuse tip that came into the AVA I…
No one among my early seventies local history educators ever mentioned town-wide sports in Navarro. In my generation the Navarro Clams slow pitch softball team…
1978 was the year I got my teaching credential from Sonoma State University, bought a little house in Willits for $15,000, and was hired that…
June, 1908, proved a record breaking month at the Albion mill. San Francisco was still rebuilding after the great quake of '06. The mill and…
Note to TTH August 17, 2000: Assholes in the Outfield… A fan ran onto the field and mooned the crowd at a Giants game. Mike Koppel…
While a White Man President raved in front of dead White Man Presidents in South Dakota, a couple of those same stone faces were re-animated…
Matt Turner built schooners, brigs and barkentine vessels on California’s north coast 120 years ago to transport lumber and general merchandise. Why is this interesting?…
Have you ever heard your doctor openly criticize another Ukiah doctor? Has your doctor ever told you a local medical professional is incompetent? It just…
For those of us lucky enough to live here in The Valley one of the enjoyable pieces of reminiscence among friends and neighbors is the…
I hadn’t seen Natalie for a couple of years before her death. More and more, she was a no-show at family gatherings, and in any…