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Posts published in March 2021

The Hon. Thomas Langley Carothers

The terms in office at that time were for two years and he served one term (1875-1876). He did not hold a California State Bar number because State Bar numbers had not yet been developed…

Lawrence Ferlinghetti – A Veteran For Peace

In 1962 a group of San Francisco veterans of World War II and Korea - knowing the Viet Nam war was looming - marched unofficially at the end of the annual Veterans Day Parade under…

Mendocino County Today: Sunday, March 14, 2021

Cold Rain | 4 New Cases | Pet Willy | Potato Part | Senior Health | Big Hands | Sheriff Byrnes | New Surcharge | Tier Equity | Suburban Coyote | Lady Cardinals | Old Paver | Phase 3 | Posted Rules | California Code | 101 Gauntlet | Ed Notes | I'm Yours | Snipe Hunt | Yesterday's Catch | Corpse Bandages | Colonel's Reckoning | Kitchen Shop | Donor Card | World Rivers | Second Growth | Broken Dream | Progressive Agenda | Barbaric Practice | Smart Juniors | Unsafe Refuge | Integrity Benefit | Like Dogs | Royal Racism | Information War | America First | Useful Idiots | Wills Trucking | Marco Radio | Shortest Day

Marguerite’s Floodgate Bar Rules of Law

As I've described previously Floodgate Store was a complex retail business operation with long daily hours.  During the day Marguerite Avery was the sole attendant at the deli, convenience goods, bar and gas pumps part…

Seventh Heaven: The Year of the Worker

Bridgewater, Massachusetts, February 28, 2021 – At the end of February, I went to Gillette Stadium about 20 miles west of home in Bridgewater, Massachussetts, and got my vaccination, first round. Sunny day with a…

Mendocino County Today: Saturday, March 13, 2021

Mostly Sunny | 2 New Cases | Restrictions Loosened | Not Exercise | Land Grabbing | Hendy Hiring | The Woods | Godot | Hopland Bust | Sedan Rammer | Duke & Diz | Tier Busting | Tracking Brittany | Refuseniks | Cops Indicted | Low Tide | Skunk Rumor | Mendo Brand | Bags | Streetscape Update | Yesterday's Catch | Repubs Bad | Stimulus Numbers | Cheap Cigars | Soviet Style | Richardson Grove | Trump Rumor | How Stupid | Fancy Dining | Soft Totalitarianism | Doing Things | On Gates | Restricting Speech | Chauvin Trial | Marco Radio | USA Failing

Dr. Wheeler’s Arrest

After the ambush of October 15, 1879, that killed two civilian members of a posse, the four outlaws escaped into the forest east of Mendocino. In town, suspicions spread. About half of the original twenty-one…

Stranger Mendo Things

Strange doings down in the County Seat recently. Let me amend that lead. Stranger doings than usual down in the County Seat recently. While we could look at any number of issues, I’ll confine our…

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