My good friend, Englishman Steve Sparks, is in the UK at this time and has filed this report on last week’s hugely impactful referendum on Britain’s membership of the European Union. I just thought you might like to read it.
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ACCORDING to a letter in the ICO from Mary Mobert, the Gualala precinct she worked boasted an impressive 75.5 percent turnout. Boonville? Anecdotally, good turnout but no specific numbers yet. THE RASTAFARIANS have come and…
I continue to enjoy the Annual Birds of Prey Convention over here in the United Kingdom of Turkey Vultures, Buzzards, and Lesser Birds of Prey. The country is engulfed with three huge topics of conversation.
I blame yellowjackets. If they hadn’t stung me two years ago this week I’d never have become an EMT, sitting long shifts every week in the Anderson Valley Ambulance Barn waiting for impermanence to flex…
GUN BATTLE ON PEACHLAND. Last Wednesday, a little after midnight, shots were heard in deep Peachland. Soon after, a couple returning to their home was startled by the sudden appearance of "two unidentified white males"…
The third weekend in June each year means music festival time in Boonville, in the form of the Sierra Nevada World Music Festival. The SNWMF is so titled as it began 23 years ago in…
I am in the “Big Heart of England.” Birmingham, the second largest city in Britain after London, and enjoying a pint and a steak and kidney pie and chips at The New Inns, a classic old pub built in the early 1900s.
On Tuesday, May 24, 2016, Boonville grape grower Deborah Kahn, civil engineer David Coleman, Boonville Hotel co-owner Roger Scommegna, Boonville resident Xenia King, Community Services District Trustee (and Boonville resident) Kathleen McKenna, Fifth District Supervisor…
ANDERSON VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL graduation is Thursday night, 7pm, at the high school gym. Expect a full house and, we hope, a cool evening. We finally extorted the graduation pictures from mysterious high school procedures,…