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Posts tagged as “local”

Off The Record

VERN PIVER died Monday in San Francisco at the UC Hospital. He was 78. I'll have a full obituary in next week's paper. A native of Fort Bragg, Vern was among the Mendocino Coast's best…

Bird’d Eye View

Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably then I shall begin. I’ve been a little under the weather this week so I’ve not been out-and-about as usual and have been hunkered down here…

Nasty School

In the past year, Kelisha Alvarez and Scotty Willis visited the Emergency Room at Ukiah Valley Medical Center 99 times.

Valley People

ANDERSON VALLEY is in line for an easily accessible recycling operation at the Boonville Fairgrounds run by Solid Waste of Willits. According to this week’s Supervisor's agenda: "Pursuant to the terms of the Memorandum of…

Food Localization, Mendo & Beyond: A Dialogue

On February 10th, on a misty morning at Rain Tenaqiya's permaculture demonstration site in the hills far above Ukiah, we gathered with four pillars of the local food movement for an in-depth discussion of their…

Off The Record

This Week: Sprinkle's parole; Paying for Bassler; Bath salts gone way, way wrong; and much more

Bird’s Eye View

Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably then I shall begin. ‘Shine’ Tuttle, at 96, was the Valley's oldest resident at the time of his recent passing. Harold Perry, currently 95, now has…

Martin Murie

Martin Murie died Jan. 28 after a brief illness. Biologist, teacher, writer, and ranter, Martin called himself a “varmentalist.” He was an activist for nature and wildness and against war and corporate domination. Anyone meeting…

A Travesty Of A Mockery Of A Sham

The United States government's “compensation” to American Indians for past and present injustices typically amounts to what Groucho Marx called “a travesty of a mockery of a sham.”  Case in point: In 1974, the California…

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