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Mendocino County Today: Friday, Oct 10, 2014

Meacham/Matthews;
Abortion Services;
Catch of the Day;
Trespass Judgment;
Gibbons 70;
Caltrans/McEwen;
Columbus Day;
Home Invaders;
Judgment/Mistrials;
Vote Holly;
New Doctors;
AV Weekend;
Prison Death;
Heavy Metal;
Intelligent Design;
Consumer Justice;
Cancer Walk;
Our Summer;
Literature Nobel;
Prop 1 Money

Mendocino Talking: Charles Martin, Renegade Farmer

Charles Martin and his wife, Catherine, ran a small, organic/biodynamic farm for many years near the coast in Comptche, supplying their neighbors and local restaurants including Cafe Beaujolais. They also operated a nonprofit health foundation. They co-founded the Ecology Action/Golden Rule Bio-Intensive Intern/Apprentice training program with John Jeavons, and Charles was active as Vice-President and Farm Reviewer for the Mendocino Renegade eco-label program of the Mendocino Organic Network. They now live in active retirement near Willits, California.

My Summer Of Dope

When I returned from vacation, the field separating my house from the cottage was filled with marijuana plants, 22 in total, and they were all about six feet in height. The smell, in the warm summer air, was quite potent.

Mendocino County Today: Thursday, Oct 9, 2014

Iacuaniello Blank;
NYTimes on Playoff Giants;
Redwood Valley Lurker;
Catch of the Day;
Willits Detour;
ISIS Crisis, Biden Blurt;
Redtag Palace;
Amy & Katrina;
Halloween Party;
Maunakea Telescope

What Shall We Do?

Congress has just voted to cut nine billion dollars in food stamps for poor Americans while voting to spend an initial sum of twenty billion dollars to bomb people in Syria and Iraq. That’s twenty billion on top of the trillion dollars Congress gives the Pentagon every year to, you know, bomb people all over the world.

Mendocino County Today: Wednesday, Oct 8, 2014

Giants Win;
Eyster Rips Losak;
Principal Busted;
Lunar Eclipse;
Ebola Crazed;
Water Conservation;
Pot Business;
Catch of the Day;
Covelo Quake;
Corporate Dictatorship;
Costume Contest;
Jewelry Making;
Solar Parties;
Senior Social;
Local Food;
Gordy;
Hazmobile;
Old Man;
Bernie Sanders;
Poor Part of Town;
Howard Ennes;
Stehr Zone

Going Back To College

Going back to college to get my degree and a teaching credential after dropping out nine years earlier was tough in a lot of ways. The first was that the closest college to Willits was…

AVA Recommendations for the Nov 4, 2014 Election

UKIAH CITY COUNCIL: As inland people are sooooo fully aware, at long last the silliest of the silly people are gone from the Council. No more Little Benj, no more Mari Rodin, no more Landis. Incumbent Scalmanini, like town mayor Red Phil, has silly tendencies, but so far, other than an impulse to nitpick, Scalamini, a PC sorta dude, has been on task and, as an appointee, he’s not up yet for election. The fifth councilman, Crane, has been a veritable rock of commonsense, but he’s not up for re-election, and when he does come up should be returned.

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