This will be the last time Mendocino County Fairgoers and entrants will see beloved staffer Cecilia Pardini — a familiar face at the front desk of the County Fair office. Pardini is retiring after 42…
Posts published by “Carole Brodsky”
Nearly everyone in Mendocino County has encountered a rattlesnake. Though bites are rare, California's Northern Pacific Rattlesnake is worthy of healthy respect and is the subject of much misinformation. Identifying the Pacific Rattlesnake is challenging,…
Rural Californians Internet needs are largely ignored by major carriers, which focus on high-density population centers, according to the Broadband Alliance of Mendocino County and Access Sonoma Broadband.
Old-timers remember Malvina Reynolds's satiric song, "Little Boxes." Penned in 1962, the song heralded the coming suburban blight, where poorly constructed houses "were made of ticky-tacky and they all looked the same." How times change.…
Doug Fine paid a return visit to Mendonesia last weekend promoting his latest book and lending support to some of the individuals and organizations he chronicled while living in Mendocino County, as he followed the cannabis industry from seed to patient.
“Grab your applehead, get a new hedge, and get out of that can kicky mood! We're having a tidrick and it's gonna be a beemsch!” smiles Jenny Burnstad, Treasurer/Fiscal Director of the Cloud Forest Institute…
“I got sick to death of this five years ago. We live in the state that invented what the Internet is all about — Google, Apple, Cisco. Yet here we sit,” says Jim Moorehead, chair…
The first portion of this two-part series investigates how Mendocino County and rural America are impacted by the lack of universal broadband service. It was a busy afternoon at the Mendocino Coast Hospital. Mendocino County…