Life and death on Oct. 26: How one day turned great joy into great pain, then great pain into great joy. Carolyn In 1965, 20-year-old…
Posts published by “Justine Frederiksen”
Something amazing happened when I went to get a new phone last year: I didn’t buy one, because instead of pressuring me to spend a…
There are already too many lists of things you should see, yet I’m going to make another: Sights that are so beautiful, they still exceed…
As many people driving past Ukiah on Highway 101 lately have noticed, a sturdy black fence is being built along the freeway north of Perkins…
During its last regular meeting, the Ukiah City Council approved the hiring of a Placer County firm to assist in the search for a new,…
At my first newspaper job after college I was on the night news desk, where your shift didn’t end until you checked the first copies…
When Laura Hopper was a kid, her mother had a friend who lived in a tree. “And I thought he was the coolest thing ever,”…
There are trees found only on the coast of Mendocino County. And if that weren’t cool enough, there’s a whole forest of them that can…
In 2017, Doug Mosel was harvesting rows of rye he planted just south of Ukiah. Nearly five years later, that locally grown grain is now…
Ukiah Valley residents have been advised to be ‘very careful’ when burning excess vegetation. An escaped burn pile Monday morning showed just how dry much…
My mother didn’t allow television or sugar in our home, so other kids’ houses were magical places with Saturday morning cartoons and Skippy peanut butter.…