For 46 years I’ve been married to a “ferroequinologist.” Know what that is? A person who loves any and all aspects of railroading. They are…
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Oracle Park is where the Giants play in San Francisco. (It used to be PacBell Park. Can’t tell the corporate sponsors without a scorecard.) Unite…
She is high off the ground, far higher than is comfortable for most people, as she begins to let go. Her hands are chalked to…
In 1934 the French government banned six varieties of wine that had been created years earlier by crossing native varieties —merlot, Cabernet sauvignon, etc— with…
It’s been tough sledding for newspapers the past 30 years. Allow me to elaborate. The first two newspapers I worked on were The Plain Dealer…
Long ago, the apple industry coined and popularized the slogan, “An apple a day keeps the doctor away.” A recent study concludes that the available…
August 4, 2021, Anderson Valley Advertiser: The Boonville Waste Water Treatment Update written by a local Boonville real estate person states: “Of particular interest is…
The last of the Mendocino Outlaws to be captured, George Gaunce and Harrison Brown, stood trial in Santa Rosa in the first week of December,…
Everyone in the northern California cannabis world knew of Frenchy Cannoli who proselytized tirelessly for hashish and who provided a living link to Europe and…
We should start asking ourselves what our limits might be regarding traveling criminals who have found Ukiah an agreeable place to squat. I’ve not been…
My mother got out of brain surgery and after a couple weeks in rehab she went home. One sister traveled five hundred miles north to…