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Posts published in May 2021

Mendocino County Today: Monday, May 31, 2021

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Lake County Gen-Xer Apologizes

I was born in 1970. That makes me a textbook Generation X poster boy. My parents were honeymooning in Italy during Apollo XI’s landing on the Moon. I was born during the time Sticky Fingers…

Mystery Launch in Mendo Bay

A drifting skiff and an attentive night watchman kicked off one of Mendocino County’s strangest maritime mysteries one quiet afternoon in 1921. Around 3:30 p.m. on Sunday, November 13th, had you been looking out to…

Paul Meilleur

RUSS EMAL WRITES: Sadly I report the death of a long time valley resident, neighbor, friend, Paul Meilleur. Paul was killed in an off road accident on his four wheeler. While not fully apprised of…

Mendocino County Today: Sunday, May 30, 2021

Inland Heat | Musical Gatherings | ATV Fatality | Ray's Resort | Pet Maggie | Corrections | AV Brewing | Lunar Eclipsing | Parking Validated | Ed Notes | Belt Recommendation | Bostrodamus | Braxton Bragg | Meth Men | F-Booking | Large Bust | JDSF Gathering | Missing Philbrick | Peleliu Marine | Emerald Cup | Yesterday's Catch | Infant Mortality | Germ Bags | Sandhill Trestle | Ocean Water | Two Thieves | Getting Old | People Nowadays | Southern Poverty | Ten Mile | Marco Radio

Gone But Not Forgotten — By Pop

Unlike the days following Osama bin Laden’s death on May 2nd, 2011, the tenth anniversary of his killing passed without hoopla in the American Homeland. A decade on from death of America’s arch enemy, no…

A Place to Throw a Pot, and Up

Ukiah was among California cities hardest hit by the pottery craze of the 1970s.  Ukiah suffered crippling waves of pottery fevers until they lessened and broke circa 1985. Smaller, less toxic crafts-borne plagues were reported…

Mendocino County Today: Saturday, May 29, 2021

Dry Days | 5 New Cases | Mendo Surge | Yorkville BBQ | ATV Fatality | Firesafe Meeting | FB Stagecoach | Mask Giveaway | PV First | CW Locomotive | Crisis Van | Assistant CEO | 408 Plants | Wine Tip | Fiddlehead Fees | Khadijah Mural | Tribal Grudges | US Capital | Ed Notes | FB Trestle | Streetscape Update | Yesterday's Catch | Model Balaclava | Newborn Welcome | Israeli Shield | Dark Eyes | Skunk Line | Human Cliche | Sun Worship | Pot Not | Charles Coward | White Boston | Fleas Fled | Felon Once | Transformational Joe | Free Choice | Stress Fractures

Cool Gray City of Love

No culture in the Sun? In France not long ago, a French professor of literature wore a bemused expression when I told him that California was my home, though I was teaching American literature in…

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