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Posts published in October 2015

Death In Mendo, 1949

Sometimes the museum where I docent gets a donation that opens my eyes with amazement. The “Family Worksheets” for six months from late 1949 into 1950 from a local funeral home came into the museum’s…

Mendocino County Today: Thursday, Oct 15, 2015

Historic Ketch Visit;
Searching for Asha;
Dem Debate;
Animal Rights;
Nino Preparations;
Environmental Damages;
Shrimp Boy Trial;
Customer Service;
Yesterday's Catch;
Imperial Failure;
Moeller;
American Kulture;
Cancer Resource;
PA City Council

Last Rights

Californians have just won a right that we all hope we will never need to use: The right to physician-assisted dying. Governor Jerry Brown signed California’s End of Life Option Act last week after what…

Mendocino County Today: Wednesday, Oct 14, 2015

FB's Willits Water Option;
Water Carriers;
Roman Elliot;
Prop 172 Money;
Library Ripoff;
El Nino Estimates;
Catch of the Day;
Gun Nut Fantasy;
National Novel Writing Month

Panther Soccer (Oct 14, 2015)

As the Panthers made the two-plus hour journey to the “wilds” of western Sonoma County to play Tomales last Wednesday afternoon, they were looking to bounce back from two recent morale-sapping defeats. The situation was…

The Love Attack

Living in Southern California, you get used to humans visiting atrocities and depredations on one another. What else would you expect from a region that funds and shelters a terrorist organization like the Los Angeles…

Fin Again—Wake!

We just returned, Marcia and I, from a nine-day journey to Oregon, our motive operandi a visit to my brother and his wife in their new digs in Portland, they among the wave of humanity crashing onto Portland, which is now the fastest growing urban area in these United States. We stayed in Gold Beach and Yachats on the Oregon coast on the way up, two nights in the Portland manse with mein brudder und his wife, a night in Eugene with friends on the banks of the Willamette, two nights at the lodge at Crater Lake, a night with friends in Arcata and…

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