I met Anne Fashauer at Mosswood on a wet Saturday last month for morning coffee and ancestors story-telling. We consumed about two hours of her recollections, along with a political discussion about real estate commission…
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Just because I'm authoring this narrative, please don't expect I will tell you what the Reboot (found in the subject line above) is all about. It is not to be found here. I have no…
You’ve all driven past it, that intriguing shop at the old Floodgate building in Philo on the 128, a couple miles east of the Navarro Store. It was always the dinosaur statue in the front…
A Measure B Repayment Plan? Item 4b on next Tuesday’s Board agenda is “Discussion and Possible Action Including Direction to Staff Regarding the Proposed Loan Repayment Plan for Funds Borrowed Against Measure B Fund as…
She wrote about politics and the patriarchy as a left-wing writer, then alienated her compatriots with exposés critical of the Black Panthers and the environmental movement. Kate Coleman, an iconoclastic Bay Area journalist who began…
The Apple Hall at the Fairgrounds was beautiful: long runners decked with fresh flowers on every table, carefully assembled themed displays, hundreds of photos of Tyler living life to the fullest with his young family.…
For decades “tear it down” has been a popular local mantra surrounding the Palace Hotel, Ukiah's most significant historic landmark. Community naysayers say it is time to level the 19th-century structure, listed on the National…
That recent incident with the door falling out of a Boeing passenger jet in flight was attributed to “missing bolts.” According to the NTSB the door had been removed to repair some rivets; after the…
In the fall of 1851, three young men, trailing a wounded elk, walked out on the rocky point above the spot where Boonville now stands, and looked with delighted eyes at the prospect of a…