It was awesome. Last week we decorated Sugar Skulls at the Caspar Community Center. This week there were alters in many of the shops around town and a large display at City Hall. The little…
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A NEIGHBORHOOD ASPHALT PLANT Editor, Coming to a Location Near You: an Asphalt Plant. Citizens of Mendocino County should be aware that the County Board of Supervisors is contemplating a zoning change that would allow…
In 1970 editor Dwight Macdonald in Tales of Hoffman referred to the 1969 trial of the Chicago Eight as "the most significant kulturekampf of our time." The Tales book was essentially a copy of the…
A steel bench on an old prison bus, 400 miles of bone jarring in leg irons and chains. A couple of mystery meat sandwiches that had to go down with spit around an inescapable bouquet…
Returning to the farm on Friday afternoon I was surprised to discover a flock of maybe two dozen seagulls lining the ridge of the roof of the barn. I had not noticed seagulls in a…
An opportunity came up for me to go help with the cholera outbreak and I took it. Two other people from All Hands and I went up north to St. Marc and helped in a…
I met with Dick at his home at the Cheesecake complex a mile or so down the Philo/Greenwood Road and after he had served up some fine pastries and a hot cup of English Breakfast…
When my mother died late on a recent night, I knew I would not be getting any sleep anytime soon, and so went out to walk in the dark. In my semi-shocked state, the next…
Last Wednesday afternoon, the Panthers drove down Hwy 101 to play the Broncos of Geyserville in what would be the final road game of the regular season. In the earlier meeting AV had dominated the…