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Looking Back, Part 5

My 2nd grade year in Mrs. Hickey’s class (the only one of my first four years in school during which my mother did not teach…

Bird’s Eye View

Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably then I shall begin. This month’s Birthday Greetings go out to Jeanne Nickless, Shirley Harris, Judy…

Campeones!

On a sunny but cool Wednesday afternoon, the AV High Schodol boys’ soccer team hosted the semi-final of the play-offs in which they faced the…

Lives & Times Of Valley Folks: David Jackness

I met with David on Anderson Valley Way where he lives with life-partner Regine Schwenter. We enjoyed a refreshing cup of tea and sat down…

Defending Ten Mile Court

Dear Coast Attorneys, I wanted to add some food for thought for the upcoming meeting on Thursday. As you all know, Mendocino County has a…

River Views

Last week’s column touched on Pomo sites near Fort Bragg, which in turn sent me to Samuel Alfred Barrett’s The Ethno-Geography of the Pomo and…

A Bumper Crop Of New Pot Laws

Like corn in Iowa or potatoes in Idaho, the price of certain key crops indicate the economic health of a region. For better or worse,…

Musical Weapons Of Mass Destruction

The Romney “Believe in America” bus may have been on the road right until the end, but in the last weeks of the campaign it…

We All Need A Higher Minimum Wage

Election's over, the good guy won, so what now for working people? Labor's wish list for our re-elected president and the new Congress is long,…

Nature Bats Last

“Deer have been around for five million years and must know what they’re doing.”— Elizabeth Marshall Thomas Our new home turns out to be a…

Off The Record

EMERGING SCANDAL, with more fairly prominent Mendocino-area people also about to be rounded up. Arrested last week by a task force raid team led by…

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