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Posts published in “Year: 2017

Trippet Gets Her Due on NBC

On New Year's Eve, NBC San Francisco will air a documentary that gives Albion activist Pebbles Trippet proper credit for advancing the movement to legalize marijuana. Peter…

Bird’s Eye View (Dec. 27, 2017)

Well that’s Christmas/Whatever-you-call-it “done and dusted” and now on to Act 2: New Year’s Eve! Try to enjoy yourselves and if someone is behaving badly…

Mendo Mail & Maritime History

Between the late 1880s and the early 1930s mail was delivered to my grandparents home here at the Macdonald ranch simply by addressing their name…

Comptche Outlaws & The Unwritten Rule

Every once in a while it’s important to remind people in Comptche that we are outlaws. And we have been that way for quite a…

Mendocino County Schools In 1880

As an author in the midst of researching a new book on Mendocino County history I found myself perusing the “History of Mendocino County, California.”…

Stickup

By way of analogy allow me to exaggerate about how to rob a bank without a gun. First, you become an elected official—say, a Mendocino…

Listening To Fukushima

The dread sound of Fukushima hardly sets the joyous Christmas bell to ringing. But a recent disc bearing simply that name from the experimental jazz…

Mendocino County Today: Wednesday, Dec. 27, 2017

Missing Information;
Weather Oracle;
Toxic Abandonment;
Flooded Open;
Sanitation Negotiations;
Little Dog;
Mega Raise;
Willits 1937;
KZYX Answers;
Flimsy Movies;
Pot Bust;
Disaster Info;
Yesterday's Catch;
Lee's Decisions;
Unequal;
Tiny Housing;
Boysen Peak;
Germany;
Train Control;
Pianist Concert;
Amazon Delivery;
Alice Donovan

Supervisor Haschack?

In the days before the Brown Act passed in 1953, men (and of course they were all men) ran for County supervisor primarily to make…

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