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North Of The Golden Gate
Dave Helvarg is the author of a number of books, the most recent The Golden Shore: California’s Love Affair with the Sea, a fascinating account of Helvarg’s travels from one end of California’s coast...
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Follow This Finger, Deputy
Aaron Long “Need for Speed,” the infantile flick filmed in Anderson Valley and other Mendo locales last spring, drew small crowds of onlookers wowed by the automotive stunts Hollywood enacted on our...
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Is Sonoma County Stealing Mendo Water?
Supervisor John Pinches’ proposal for the Board of Supervisors to form an “ad-hoc committee” to look into Russian River water rights got off to a stumbling beginning last Tuesday when the titular...
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Crazy Vatos Controlas!
Ivan Sanchez & Richard Olstad The Fort Bragg gang problem doesn’t seem to be getting any better. The idiot wars between the red and the blue, the north and the south, the Norteños and the Sueños,...
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Life In A Wick Drain Stitcher Part 3: Unseasonal Rain
Life in a wick drain stitcher. The past 160 years have involved the utter destruction of the vast majority of perhaps the most ecologically important natural communities there are here in California:...
View ArticleIn Judge Brennan’s Courtroom
When Fort Bragg Police Chief Scott Mayberry comes to the Ten Mile Court and stays for over an hour and his name isn’t on any witness or subpoena list, then something is up. When Judge Clayton Brennan...
View ArticleNameless, Faceless Helplers
Last week some local newspapers published what was essentially a press release from Mendocino County’s Health and Human Services Agency (HHSA). The article opens with the line, “Responding to ‘local...
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Crazy Vatos Dos
Ivan Sanchez Fort Bragg gangster Ivan Sanchez survived an effort to indict him on the attempted murder of his girlfriend last week. The indictment failed — not due to any impression of innocence...
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Supes To Factory Neighbors: Shut Up
In a purely symbolic move on Tuesday, November 5, the Mendocino County Board of Supervisors discussed a “Right To Industry” ordinance that would tell anybody living near industrial activity in the...
View ArticleYoga Is Freedom, Not Hippy Dippy Hocus Pocus
In June, I will have the pleasure of calling this Valley my home for 40 years — 40 years of hard work, splitting firewood, chain sawing, T-post driving, motorcycles, horses, humping plywood, sheetrock,...
View ArticleRemembering Pat Grim
On August 9, 1994, Patricia Ruth Bernard Grim jumped off the Golden Gate Bridge. Doesn’t that bother you? What a strange word that is… bother. But still I can’t think of another word to describe the...
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Defense Of Necessity
In the predawn hours of Monday September 16th of this environmentally catastrophic year, Peggy Backup, 64, of Willits, a former plant pathology researcher at UC Davis, and Lucy Neely, 27, an organic...
View ArticleGood Fences
One of the things from the past that we pass by every day and pay very little attention to is our fences here in Anderson Valley. Many are over 100 years old and still doing a good job enclosing...
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Crabs Before Christmas? Maybe Not
Photo by Darya Pino via Flickr. According to the Department of Fish and Wildlife, starting tonight at midnight, crab pots could legally go in the water and succulent crustaceans could be headed to...
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The Paul Hobbs Wine Empire Strikes Back
Paul Hobbs Winery. Photo by Jameson Fink via Flickr. The Watertrough Children’s Alliance (WCA) — mainly mothers with students at schools near where yet another apple orchard is being converted into a...
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The Boonville Hotel & Table 128
This article is by Brennon, Krissy, Johnny, Katie & Melinda At the Boonville Hotel and Table 128 we all share a love for beauty and food. It is what has brought us all together. We are a group of...
View ArticleHoly Shit! I’m A Hash Judge
It’s true. I am on the front lines of marijuana as a concentrates judge for the 2013 Emerald Cup. That’s right, I am taking one for team LostCoastOutpost (LoCO). Actually, if we’re talking in terms of...
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Shots Fired
It was an exciting night that crisp February 25th of this year, so exciting that Walter K. Miller’s performance is playing again in Mendocino County Superior Court. Miller, 43, of Ukiah, is accused of...
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Cannabis Ironies & Hypocrisies
“Legalize pot!” What was once hippie heresy has become a bandwagon. This past weekend’s “Emerald Cup” in Sonoma County has just been covered by the San Francisco Chronicle and other media as if the...
View ArticleImmigration Law & Its Casual Cruelties
This is the story of Rafael Morales, a Mixteca native of the State of Oaxaca, Mexico who “sneaked” into the United States, and eventually landed in Healdsburg, California, where after 8 years he...
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Kiss This, Dick Tracy
Miller, Skaggs & Cox I generally lie to parole officers and law enforcement… It’s just what we — men like me… it’s what we do. — Walter Miller * * * Walter K. ‘Kris’ Miller took the witness stand...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: December 23, 2013
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