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In Search Of Bach’s Brain

Bach was buried on July 31, 1750, three days after his death, on the south side of St. John’s church outside the walls of the city of Leipzig. So-called “extramural” (outside-the-walls) burial became the norm after the introduction of the Lutheran Reformation in Leipzig in the 1530s.

Mendocino County Today: May 29, 2013

MAN BEATER OF THE WEEK: Ms. Miranda Mullins of Willits. Miranda, 18, is a large, attractive young woman whose bail was set at the minimum $10,000 for an allegation of domestic violence. Big women, like…

Off The Record

RICHARD POOLE JR. and Scott Anderson came by the Boonville office the other day. They’d driven down from Willits where Poole owns property at 195 E. Oak, a couple of blocks from Main Street. Poole…

Valley People

MASSIVE ABALONE interdiction in Boonville Monday morning. A large number of Fish and Game wardens set up a roadblock at the Boonville Fairgrounds. Through traffic was diverted into the Fairgrounds parking lot for thorough vehicle…

Road Notes: San Francisco-Denver

Picnic on Donner Pass — No meat. Plaque I'd like to see at the Donner Summit: “They Bit off More Than They Could Chew” In Sausalito we had lunch with a friend of M's late…

Mendocino County Today: May 28, 2013

EULOGY FOR A VETERAN (Author Unknown) Do not stand at my grave and weep. I am not there, I do not sleep.   I am a thousand winds that blow. I am the diamond glints…

Mendocino County Today: May 27, 2013

A SENIOR TICKET to see the Terracotta Warriors at the Asian Art Museum costs $16 bucks; once you're inside you're informed they are five life-size facsimiles, but what the hey, what's one more little swindle…

Mendocino County Today: May 26, 2012

RICHARD POOLE JR. and Scott Anderson came by the Boonville office the other day. They’d driven down from Willits where Poole owns property at 195 E. Oak, a couple of blocks from Main Street. Poole…

Mendocino County Today: May 25, 2013

IT TOOK US a while to figure out the specific nature of the scam at the North Coast Railroad Authority. There’s no way a railroad that runs almost no trains can be financially viable even…

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