I still don't know why I blew through that checkpoint outside Mazatlan on my last drive North up through Mexico even though the police went out in the middle of the road with his machine…
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Just arrived in the mailbox is a book called Dangerous Grounds, which recounts how coffeehouses set up near Army bases became hangouts for soldiers during the Vietnam War era. I started the first such enterprise with Donna Mickleson and Devorah Rossman —the UFO coffeehouse in Columbia, South Carolina— in the fall of 1967.
As many readers of this paper probably know there has been great turmoil within the California Grange system fomented by the head organization, the National Grange, who wanted California to not be so damned progressive. National de-Granged California and turned all previous Granges into Guilds. Did so even though California was the only state in the nation to show a reversal in the precipitous decline in Grange membership.
DUDE FEST has come and gone. Thousands of beer drinkers descended on the Anderson Valley for Saturday’s crowded event at the Boonville Fairgrounds and, by Sunday night, they were gone. Quite rare in these times…
A boon in Boonville? Debatable. Well the 21st Annual AV Brewing Company’s Beer Festival in Boonville has come and gone with plenty of fanfare and thousands of visitors. and like most years, virtually every one…
Bud & Breakfast;
Rena Moore;
Greasy Martinez;
Little Dog;
Strong-armed Anderson;
Grange or Guild;
Candyman;
Rough Talk;
Ukiah Workload;
Split-rail Fence;
Immigrant Distinctions;
Yesterday's Catch;
Protest Rights;
Idiot Clinton;
Swamp Thing;
Hippie Invasion;
Icelandic Teens;
Mendo Greems;
DNC Fraud;
Library Events;
Marco Radio;
Artist Presentation;
Naturalist/Gardener;
The Madrones;
That Man
At an April 25th Finance Committee meeting, Mendocino Coast District Hospital (MCDH) Chief Financial Officer Wade Sturgeon and Chief Executive Officer Bob Edwards introduced a proposed budget for the 2017/2018 fiscal year that will be…