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Posts published in April 2021

Mendocino County Today: Monday, April 5, 2021

Joe Wildman | Persistant Ridge | Hop Pickers | Brand Revival | Discarded Mail | More Outages | Cloverdale Blacksmith | Magdaleno Brother | Pomo Basketweavers | Fish Demise | Cloverdale 1890 | Ruining Baseball | Cloverdale Indians | Police Reports | Yesterday's Catch | Bittersweet Day | Judgement Day | Sick Mind | Juicy Question | True Terror | Probate Hell | Plow Boy | Writing Therapy | True Believer | Welfare Lies | Brothel Etiquette | Buffalo Roam | Frank Fiegel | Boehner Book | Gray Encounters

Wrap Your Cellphone In Tinfoil

The internet is the land of a million tongues and a thousand truths, many false. It’s a brightly lit shadowy world where facts are sometimes factual, political agendas are everywhere and everything is coated in…

Mendocino County Today: Sunday, April 4, 2021

Cooling Trend | Fatal Rollover | Pet Moon | Easter Tattoos | Mendo Covid | 37 Plymouth | Drift Boats | Snakes Easy | Cannabis Expansion | Young Otter | McClarifications | Booking Photo | PPP Numbers | Sheep Dog | Mendonoma | Pomo Family | Dominoes Falling | Fast Better | Ed Notes | Yesterday's Catch | Nguyen Novels | Mountain Pass | Bostrodamus | Indian Portrait | Sickly Bears | Overpopulation | Harley Adventure | Chants Meeting | Dock Siren | Monterrey Bound | Marshmallow Test | Wood CalCare | Speed Dial | Marco Radio | Found Object | Maladjusted

The Newmans of Comptche’s Keene Summit

Local history explorations often start with something as simple as a piece of paper. Walking into the Comptche store recently owner Belinda Pollack handed me a sheet of paper and asked “Who was Amanda Newman?”…

Mendocino County Today: Saturday, April 3, 2021

Cloudy Cool | 2 New Cases | Yorkville BBQ | 1950 Cloverdale | Phase 3 | Smith Story | Murray Jailed | Dusky Hills | Ed Notes | Morning Chase | Goldeneye Gig | Political Hypocrisy | Streetscape Update | Yesterday's Catch | Guerneville 1910 | Wetback Stories | Skeleton Lineup | Counting Coup | Avoidable Pain | PA Meeting | First Lowrider | EV Power | Leaning Anarchy | USA Last | Mighty Ira | California Map | Marco Radio | Pomo Indians | Paradigm Failure | Rebel Education

Lucky Claud

As the stock market was rising to ever-higher heights in the summer of 1929, Claud Cockburn got assigned by The Times to its New York office. (Whereas The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times,…

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