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The Beauty Of Nature

Soon after we arrived in Anderson Valley in 1957, my father nailed a couple of elk horns onto the trunk of an oak tree in front of our house. As elk weren’t part of the…

The Thrill Of The Now

It was fitting that Rafael Puyana, the Colombian harpsichordist who died on March 1st in Paris at the age of 81, should have made his debut — on piano — in 1945 at the Teatro…

Mendocino County Today: March 20, 2013

SUPERVISOR JOHN PINCHES, according to Willits News staff writer Linda Williams, told the Brooktrails Community Services District last Tuesday that at least one supervisor favors removing Brooktrails completely from the Teeter plan, but that he,…

Bypass Blockades Continue

In the past three weeks, construction crews employed by CalTrans on five occasions have rolled out big machines with the intention of installing construction fencing, cutting trees, and clearing brush along the route of Big…

Year Of The Concentrate

The Winter/Spring 2013 issue of O'Shaughnessy's came out with a page-one article by Jeffrey Hergenrather, MD, under the headline “Use of 'Dabs' Gaining Popularity.” It explained: “The popularity of high-THC 'dabs' — also known as…

Off The Record

ABOUT 75 PEOPLE opposed to Caltrans’ plans for a bypass around Willits responded to a “high alert” call from Save Little Lake Valley to show up Monday morning starting at 7am at the tree-sit site…

Valley People

DEBORAH SARSGARD has had to resign from her position as CSD trustee while she fights off cancer. Ms. Sarsgard is presently resting at a nursing care facility in Oakland in between rounds of chemo-therapy at…

Crime & Punishment

The week started out with two jury trials on Monday, but by early Tuesday both cases were out the window. The first one was a DUI wherein the defendant, Joshua Pollard, had reached across from the passenger seat and grabbed the wheel while his girlfriend was driving, causing a crash into another vehicle.

The Need To Proceed For Speed

Ms. Dillon is a briskly smart, attractive young woman with an important job. She not only has to secure venues ranging from where to park the equipment trucks to film sites, she's got to cool…

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