Previously, Edward Livernash, prodigy of the legal and journalistic worlds in Northern California, uses hypnotic somnambulism to explain away an arrest then in 1892 he is apprehended after shooting Cloverdale businessman Darius Ethridge multiple times…
Posts published in October 2019
This 30th anniversary of the quake has provided the Chronicle and Bay Area media with a week's worth of reminiscences
Walking into Ralph’s Shoe Repair on North State Street took me all the way back through the years to my five-year-old self listening raptly as my mom read Pinocchio to me. I imagined Master Geppetto,…
Last month we asked the County for the paper trail on the County's buyback of a vacant parcel on Ukiah's Orchard Avenue. The property has been under consideration for a Crisis Residential Treatment facility for…
(Life Magazine – November 12, 1951) Ten years ago, like many childless couples, Carl and Helen Doss began their family by adopting a boy. When they went back to the agency for more, they were…
SUPERVISOR GJERDE WRITES: “Between now and March, all of us on the Coast need to grapple with the future of the Mendocino Coast District Hospital, when we will vote on affiliation with Adventist Health. At…
DONALD HARRIS 58, of Philo drowned while surfing early Sunday morning off Point Arena Cove. According to the Mendocino County Sheriff’s Department’s Shannon Barney, “Another surfer paddled out to check on him and found him…
Three and one-half short weeks ago, I was benching my weight and doing 15 pull-ups at a go. Granted, I don’t weigh much more than a jockey holding a lapdog, but still. My steps were…