Given the UDJ’s series on the homeless-mental health-substance abuse issue, I thought it would be timely to take a look at one chapter of mental health history in California that I’ve written and spoken about…
Posts published in “News”
Some Mendocino County students were asked to do the “unthinkable” this week when school began — put their phones away all day. “I saw students walking and talking instead of with their heads down and…
In 1974 I was trying to get my house plans through the Mendocino County Building Department for a building permit. I had presented my drawing of a two-story house to be constructed of redwood logs…
One sunny day more than a few years ago, Don Pardini was working in Evergreen Cemetery when a couple of odd-looking bones caught his eye. They weren’t hog bones, deer bones, dog bones, cat bones,…
The news we’ve all been waiting for has arrived: The causes and cures of homelessness are no longer a mystery, and in fact are simple. Those in charge need more money to fund innovative program…
The AV History Museum has boxes with actual copies of the Anderson Valley Advertiser from November 1954 through December 1985. Individual copies were sold for 7¢ with a year of weekly papers subscription price of…
Carolyn Short was born on June 28, 1931, to Benjamin Thomas Ashley & Janet Gaines Goff Ashley, in Amity, Arkansas. While attending Amity High, Carolyn was a varsity basketball player, along with her childhood friend,…