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Posts published in December 2015

Mendocino County Today: Friday, Dec 25, 2015

Merry Christmas;
Hard Freeze Warning;
Holiday Mailbox Gang;
Asset Forfeiture;
Catch of the Day;
Kid Stories;
Concussion Movie;
Bargain Books;
Deportation Raids;
Steelhead Rebound;
KZYX Committee Assignments

A Holiday Noir

Down at the beach, waiting for Santa Claus. Well, not quite; I was at the beach because I love the beach and even more important,…

Mendocino County Today, Thursday, Dec 24, 2015

Eve Weather;
Colorful Leaves;
Legal Fees;
Physical Argument;
Fair Funds;
Privatizing Dispatch;
Liberal Cities;
Bigfoot Warning;
Water Conservation;
Secret Negotiations;
LakeCo Artifacts;
Trump ISIS;
Firefighting Funds;
Proposition Battle;
Disaster Loans;
Greenwood Burglar;
Apartment Fire;
Suicide Attempt;
Holiday Drinkers;
KZYX Dissidents;
Yesterday's Catch;
Techno Optimism

A Tweeker’s Christmas

The holidays approacheth yet again as is their inexorable wont and there's nothing you can do to stop them. Can't slow ’em down, can’t skip…

Dogs & Cats

Myra Eberhardt is a self-avowed cat person—the kind of cat person who finds dogs and most of their people wanting in grace and civility. A…

Red Roaster Roosters

Roosters crow almost 24/7, building from the pre-dawn hours into a crescendo at sunrise. We got too many cocks, not enough hens. One gallo is…

Fishing The Navarro River 

An interview of Francis (Frank) Ray & Geneva Linn Ray by Hillary Adams at their home ranch on Navarro Ridge Road west of the Grange, May 29, 1995 …

Panderings & Missteps

The current clan occupying the English throne came to it not through military conquest but the generally less trying expedient of marriage. The route laid…

An AV Kid Grows Up

Sitting here tonight, I am remembering a man of great vision, compassion and an entrepreneurial drive that transformed your community. This visionary developed a keen ability to build teams and connections that enlightened, informed and produced results for the common good. That man, Homer Mannix, as well as his wife Bea, and son Joe and daughter Sue. As I tell you this story, I want to frame it with why I was in Philo, and how my relationship with Homer developed.

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