Last Wednesday at approximately 12:30 p.m. Joan Burroughs, school secretary, arrived at her Manchester Road home for lunch to discover her home had been burglarized. The robbers, believed to be two adult white males, apparently…
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I’M ALWAYS AMUSED WHEN STRANGERS drop by with business for the Advertiser. They walk cautiously through a gauntlet of fighting and screaming children, knock timidly on the door and ask, incredulously, “Is this the newspaper?”…
THIS IS OFF THE RECORD, OKAY? It’s just between you and me. I know I can trust you to keep a secret because if these remarks were to get around my chances of being elected…
CAMP raiding parties seized 63 marijuana plants from the Maple Basin area of Philo last Wednesday. The plants were discovered in three separate gardens and a number were reported to be twenty feet tall. Philo…
TRYING TO ENJOY A PEACEFUL HIKE up the Manchester Road the other evening, I was accosted by the leader of the Manchester Road Freedom Fighters. The Manchester Road Freedom Fighters are committed to freedom of…
WANDA THINKS GLOBAL Dear Mr. Anderson: RE.: The world news story of Oct. 1 about a bombing of Tunisia by Israeli jets, called “A criminal action” by Arab states, and “illegal” by the U.S.A. government:…
I GREW UP a hundred miles south of here, or at least I got bigger, agreeing at least partially with the feminists who maintain that American men never really grow up but remain forever boys.…
Officially called the Mendocino County Fair, most of the effort is committed by Anderson Valley people. The Redwood Empire Fair, held annually in Ukiah, is more representative of the County, having moved from being merely…