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Posts published in May 2015

Mendocino County Today: Saturday, May 23, 2015

Sagaiga Apprehended;
Jack Azevedo;
Macabre News;
Recall Letters;
Home-invaders Sentenced;
Yesterday's Catch;
Palace Memories;
California Counties;
War Poverty;
Wine Empire;
Oil Spill;
Dinnerstein;
Lost in Space;
Rogue Country;
Illegitimate Ruler;
Sobriety Checkpoint;
Farm Report;
Bird Hike;
PA Agenda

Mendocino County Today: Friday, May 22, 2015

Ernesto's Crash;
Blue Meadow Open;
Homeless Count;
Woodhouse Unspooled;
Yesterday's Catch;
Gang Activity;
Financing KZYX;
Human Consumption;
Public Transit;
Bail Prior;
Injustice;
Final Nag;
Art Works;
Extreme Energy

Baby Breaking Blue (It’s Bad)

I've always been a sucker for music. I don't mean that I love it, although I do; I mean I'm susceptible in the extreme to the power of music to sway, influence, manipulate and take…

A Memorial Day Massacre

It's a dramatic, shocking and violent film. Some 200 uniformed policemen armed with billy clubs, revolvers and tear gas angrily charge an unarmed crowd of several hundred striking steelworkers and their wives and children who…

Mendocino County Today: Thursday, May 21, 2015

Ernesto Contreras;
Abalone Checkpoint;
So Wrong;
Protest Dialogue;
Mendo Veto;
New Director;
Brill Found;
Woods Wanted;
Good Morning;
Salmon BBQ;
Mendo Democrats;
Yesterday's Catch;
Rogue River;
America's Infrastructure;
Standardized Testing;
What's Going On;
PA Lighthouse;
Oil Spill;
World Music

Resting Places

Anderson Valley has five cemeteries, though only four are in general use. All are old, all are still active, all have rustic character befitting the valley – no manicured lawns here — and all abound with historic family names, many that still had a strong presence in the valley during the years of my youth there in the late 1950s and 1960s. A few of those families remain in the valley today, others have passed on or moved on. Still, the cemeteries are snapshots of the valley, past and present.

Zecke the Bloodsucker

Buzzards swoop on the wind drafts in the draw that extends from below my house to the bottom lands next to the remains of Uncle Charlie’s cabin.  The same wind currents that provide the swirling,…

Hobbs’s Poisons

Apple Blossom School has a nice ring to it, as does the Orchard View School at its side. The nearby Tree House Hollow pre-school, with children as young as two and three years old, continues…

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