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Last Week In Ukiah

Intricate and costly legal maneuvers delay proceedings in the high-stakes criminal case Mendocino County District Attorney David Eyster filed last Fall against a fellow elected official, county Auditor Chamise Cubbison. Because of a new Eyster-triggered…

Recollections of Fort Despair

The original AVA compound, aka Fort Despair, was the Boonville headquarters of the America’s Last Newspaper, but also ground zero for an ongoing social experiment featuring a non-stop parade of visitors, victims, concerned parents, perpetrators,…

Pear Sheds

One night in 1954, I was coming out of my driveway and could see a red glow in the sky to the south. As I came closer to the town of Hopland, the red glow…

Eradication & Cultivation

The title probably caught your eye thinking this would be a great story about Cannabis!! Haha. This is actually a perspective on the eradication of outdated ideas about mental illness, addiction & homelessness and the…

The Christening of the MV Mendocino [September 2001]

Things were about as exciting as they get in Mendoland on Friday, July 20th, 2001, when the MV Mendocino was officially christened at Noyo Harbor in Fort Bragg. A band played, people cheered, Mendo poobahs…

The Fashauer Family In The Valley

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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