AS A LONG-TIME RESIDENT of America's intoxicants capitol, Mendocino County, where cannabis, wine grapes, wine, beer, methamphetamine, heroin, and pure delusion reign, local journalists who mount their high horses to fulminate against the predictable consequences…
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MENDOCINO COUNTY CLERK ready for same-sex marriages Mendocino County Clerk Sue Ranochak said Wednesday morning that she is fully prepared to issue marriage licenses to same sex couples in Mendocino County as soon as she…
WILLITS POLICE are investigating the death of Danny Lawrason, 77, found dead in his home on East San Francisco Avenue on Sunday June 16th. A press release from the police was ambiguous. It said that…
THE DREADS LANDED. The Sierra Nevada World Music Festival packs them in every year, and Mendocino County's most happening venue, Boonville, radiated peace, love and good vibrations all weekend, as Mendo's very own rasta-groover, Sister…
BYPASS: A MAJOR DISSERVICE Editor, "Papa, I want to play!" The first time my daughter said those words during our drive it was easy to smile and let her know that Willits was just ahead,…
JUST IN FROM THE GUV'S OFFICE: Press release from the governor’s office below: After years of struggle, the US Supreme Court today has made same-sex marriage a reality in California. In light of the decision,…
One of my favorite stories from Joseph Campbell is of a wise man introducing his young son to one of the great mysteries of life. They are sitting together under an enormous banyan tree, which is a tropical fig tree, and the man asks his son to pick a fig and cut the fruit in half.
KNOW YOUR NEIGHBORS. Black Bird Farm is still mostly known locally as Highland Ranch, ancestral home of the late Charmian Blattner, the Redwood Empire's longest-running print columnist. When Charmian was a girl, Highland was a…