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Posts published by “Malcolm Macdonald”

Reminiscence On Berry Picking

The end of July and the beginning of August always reminds me of berry picking time, blackberries that is. Until the extinction of rotary phones…

Life & Death in Mendo, 1905

Examples of the abrupt nature of life often pop up close together. Mendocino County has been no stranger to such occurences. The town of Mendocino's…

Local Vets & Their Legacy

As the calendar marks the dates for D-Day, Flag Day and on through Independence Day, my thoughts often turn to men I knew in younger…

Hospital Parcel Tax Vote Recount

An Albion area resident has paid a $2,900 deposit to the Mendocino County Clerk's Office to start a recount on Measure C, the $144 per…

Highway Robbery (Part 2)

When Mendocino County Sheriff Jeremiah “Doc” Standley arrested twenty-two year old Joseph McKay at the Burns Hotel of Santa Rosa in late November, 1891, it…

Highway Robbery

About 8 a.m. on the morning of November 15, 1891, Charles Lambert, driver on the Eureka to Ukiah stage run, guided his team up a…

Tim Moellering & The Movie “Quest”

Tim Moellering, history teacher and baseball coach at Berkeley High School, died on a Tuesday in 2011, after a lengthy struggle against cancer. Moellering's Berkeley…

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