High school hit me right between the eyes. Where does a freshman fit in? At the bottom of the ladder, of course. Within a student body of well over a thousand individuals, I ran smack into a social class mentality that seemed to pervade the entire experience, the elite spending their time looking down their noses at those beneath them, each class assuming a position of authority over the underclasses.
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THE AVA PRESENTS! THE BEST & THE WORST OF MENDOCINO COUNTY, 2013 ABSENTEE OF THE YEAR: Winter. Where did it go? 2013 was the driest year in Mendocino County ever. MIA OF THE YEAR. Mendocino County…
As we enter the New Year I believe we should acknowledge a couple of very special folks in the Valley: our most senior of seniors. The oldest Valley resident is 95-year old Freda Fox (born in 1918) who will be turning 96 in March, while our second eldest resident is Ross Murray (also a new born baby of 1918), who in September of this year will turn 96 years young.
AMTRAK has handled the black-porter/white-porter issue very deftly. Their logo — or at least the one that appears on the tissue covering the head rest — depicts a porter standing erect in his sharp uniform,…
GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN: Steve Williams Henry Hill Alyce Falge Harold Perry Raul Malfavon Deborah Sarsgaard Robert Tomkins Clyde Price Mike Langley Elizabeth Carson Leo Howard Brian Blumberg Bert Schlosser & Tom Croak Diane Zucker…
I was among five people from inland Mendocino County who stayed with elder Dine' (Navajo) families at Black Mesa, an uplands mountain plateau on Navajo/Hopi reservation land in the high, frigid (especially at this time of year) northeastern Arizona desert. This expansive area, roughly sixty miles in diameter, has sustained continuous human occupation for thousands of years.
The Medical Marijuana Patients Union has been picking up other people's garbage on California highways for 10+ years. We presently have two sites, one on 128 from Philo to the outskirts of Boonville & the second on Highway 101 north of Cloverdale at the Sonoma/Mendo County line.
We are currently in the midst of a local drought that coincides with a state drought that coincides with a regional drought that coincides with the global climate change crisis that more and more scientists believe is now irreversible