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Posts published in May 2020

MCT: Thursday, May 28, 2020

AV Testing Results;
Hot Inland;
Bottled Kniphofia;
B Fuddling;
Missing Man;
Brooktrails Mill;
Caspar Curiosities;
Log Boom;
Russian River Request;
Playing Through;
FB City Council Meeting;
Skunk Tunnelers;
Lovesick Alien;
Blossoming Cacti;
Ed Notes;
Boonville Hiatts;
Shots Fired;
AV Sunset;
Larry Spring Museum Grant;
Navarro By The Sea;
Yesterday's Catch;
Willits Oil Rig;
De-Industrializing Food

Lockdown Stress

I don’t believe anyone would be surprised to know that there has been an increase in police calls associated with mental health since the Shelter-in-Place orders went into effect. Verbal and even physical disputes between…

Letters (May 27, 2020)

Much has been written about how removing Scott Dam on the Eel River will provide miles of fish habitat. I have not read anything about what will happen when the mercury and cinnabar mines that are currently sealed under the lake are exposed.

Coast Notes (May 27, 2020)

FOOD BANKS across the country are groaning under unprecedented demand during the COVID-19 lockdown. The Redwood Empire Food Bank in Santa Rosa, the North Coast's hub for emergency food distribution, made an appeal last week…

Off the Record (May 27, 2020)

MEMORIAL DAY MEMORY. As a kid I always had a paper route. At the time, Frisco published several dailies and plenty of news to deliver. I remember carrying the afternoon SF Call-Bulletin and the morning…

Corona Music

Spring has been slow to come to Upstate New York. There have been snow flurries in April, and the yearned-for arrival of green in the landscape has been halting. Like the humans, the leaves seem…

A Tale of Two Viruses

The lesson of COVID-19 is that nature demands respect. If we continue trying to dominate and commodify nature, we will pay dearly. “Rampant deforestation, uncontrolled expansion of agriculture, intensive farming, mining and infrastructure development, as…

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