I don’t know if Aaron Vargas, the Fort Bragg man who was scheduled to go on trial this month for killing his longtime sexual abuser, is by baptism a Roman Catholic. But I suspect during…
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No--just an AVA fan, confessing their love in the bathroom stall of The Peg House. Courtesy Hank Sims, North Coast Journal.
THE LOCAL JUSTICE SYSTEM is a crap shoot, front to back, and the matter of The People vs. Glenn Sunkett illustrates the point. As does the matter of The People vs. Kenny Rogers. Sunkett first.…
In a recent story I wrote about Jeanne Huckins--a Fort Bragg woman who was found dead in early January and whose death was recently ruled a suicide--I quoted, and paraphrased, a Fort Bragg police sergeant,…
“JOHN SCHARFFENBERGER: A Man and His Garden.” is the theme for a fundraiser for the local Ambulance Service. Scharffie's splendid Philo acres have been featured in Martha Stewart Living, Garden Design magazine and the SF…
“Cleopatra's nose, had it been shorter, the whole face of the world would have been changed.” So wrote Pascal, remembering how Caesar and Mark Anthony, those mighty generals of the Roman Empire, were captivated by…
Last Monday’s long-anticipated Budget Workshop began with 40-plus people wanting to tell the Board of Supervisors to spare certain services from the budget axe – the Willits library, the County Museum, the Coast Animal Shelter…
Six black rappers in Covelo? On Chicken Ridge? It's kind of complicated. You've got Darvel Blackwell, Clifton Jacobs, and Marquis Walker on one side of the beef, with Troy 'T' Sims, Jackie Slade, and Robert…
WRONG MISTAKES Dear Dr. Zack, Where have you been? I've got another problem that's keeping me awake at night and I could use your help. I try to learn from my mistakes, so I don't…