Chris Jones, now a resident of Eugene, Oregon, says hello to all his friends, and is especially grateful to Morgan Baynham for Morgan's recent letter and gift, both of which I hand-delivered to CJ on…
Posts published in “Day: September 16, 2010”
At the end of August, Mendocino County's CEO informed the Supervisors that the good ship Mendo was still in the hole to the tune of $2.7 million for the current fiscal year. After two days…
Captain Fathom has gotten out of jail for the umpteenth time. He’d been accused of stealing a car, something completely out of character for the aging lefty. The Captain had become involved in a confused…
By the end of the week, the air was so thick with pieties about the need for tolerance and respect for all creeds that one yearned for the Rev. Terry Jones, mutton chop whiskers akimbo,…
ANNE MOLGAARD of the cigarette tax-funded First Five umbrella Do-Good organization, got off a completely unfounded memo earlier this week that has everyone who's seen it shaking their heads. “Dear Commissioners: I hesitate to tell…
CHARMIAN, like Cher and Madonna, achieved single-name renown on the Northcoast partly, perhaps, because her column in this publication seemed an anomaly, a little old lady writing little old lady prose in a weekly newspaper,…
Charmian Ruth Blattner passed peacefully in the early morning hours of September 9, 2010, at the age of 90, dying in Ukiah not far from where she was born on April 5th, 1920. The youngest…