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Posts published in December 2016

Mendocino County Today: Wednesday, Dec. 28, 2016

Ingram Cemetery;
Bruce Campbell;
Little Dog;
PA Sex Crimes;
Kit Carson Book;
ICO Wildlife;
Local Water News;
Yesterday's Catch;
British Welfare;
Moducks;
American Pathologies;
Gun Sales;
Water Workshop;
DAPL Resolution

Coast Hospital: The New Administration

Mendocino Coast District Hospital held a special meeting of their Board of Directors three days before Christmas. With five board members, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Bob Edwards, Chief Financial Officer (CFO), Wade Sturgeon, and…

Neither Snow Nor Rain Nor Random Physical Assault…

The scene of the crime was the upscale Park Place Apartments, alongside shady Orr Creek bridge at 621 North State Street. The time was 2:30 the sunny afternoon of October 8th. At this address, a…

My (Almost) First Wife

I thought long and hard about it, and I eventually concluded that yes, it was time to start those bells a-ringing again. No, not those bells, not the kind I told you about recently whose…

Report From Standing Rock

I have lived in Boonville since 2009, but I grew up in North Dakota. I recently returned from a month long stay there. My time was split between visits with family and work at the…

‘Jew!’

Reading the anti-semitism piece in the Dec. 20 daily Mendo County Today, I was reminded of the time I learned about the practice (belief?) of Jew-hating. I grew up in central Connecticut, a place where…

Letters (Dec. 28, 2016)

In response to Todd Walton's article "The Greater Good" - Proposition 13, at least as I understand it, was originally supposed to allow old people on fixed incomes to keep their homes.

The Local Angle

Craig Anderson was a "patriotic deserter" from the US Navy in 1967. As recounted sympathetically by John Glionna in the New York Times December 22: He and three other Navy seamen [John Barilla, Richard Bailey…

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