FAINT OF HEART, read no farther for there is not a single encouraging sentence in this column. THE BRITISH BROADCASTING Corporation will be here next week to do a program on Alice Walker. The entire…
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THIS PAST SUNDAY’S San Francisco Chronicle/Examiner featured a story on the dual collapses of Anderson Valley’s and Mendocino’s high school football programs. The two disasters were jumbled up in a manner that suggested substance abuse…
CITIZENS AGAINST POUND SEIZURE have announced they need additional signatures for the ballot initiative prohibiting the sale of County animals to alleged research centers in the Bay Area. Circulators of the petitions claim they have…
PEOPLE IN CITIES and suburbs must envy Anderson Valley’s annual head lice scare. how often does an urban have the opportunity to gossip about his neighbor’s personal hygiene? The urb doesn’t even know who his…
THANKS FROM AN INDEBTED editor to the 196 misguided souls who cast their votes for me for a seat on the school board. Your checks are in the mail. And double thanks to the anonymous…
REPRESENTATIVES of the timber industry, including the elected ones, are complaining that the proposed addition of the Smith River (Humboldt County) will somehow cost the area timber jobs. Senator Barry Keene has observed that the…
ELECTION WRAP-UP, or the things it really isn’t wise to say when you’re a candidate like I am. One thing that stands out from this campaign is the startling number of reverential references to “the…
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…
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?”…