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Posts published in May 2021

Mendocino County Today: Sunday, May 16, 2021

Spring Weather | Thunder/Lightning | Barn Swallow | Pet Pearl | Father B | Wolf Denied | Weed Fines | 1909 Bragg | Red Wanted | Ed Notes | Spring Poetry | Pinot Weekend | 128 Delays | KFC Coop | Fixer Upper | Lauren's Building | Cut Trees | Old Friend | Repeal Ordinance | Yesterday's Catch | Big River | Martian Helmet | Desalinate | Sun Ra | Local Dems | Herald-Tribune | Southern Man | Free Palestine | Israeli Apologists | Gaza Rubble | Unvax Tax | Calle Gatazo | Apple Tree | Ridiculous Hypocrites

‘Highload’ & His Mythic Gyppos

Sometime during the Summer of '73, after the unionization strike dust had settled at Philo Lumber, and I had resettled into the routine pulling strips at The Point, Sammy Prather, leader of the Green Chain…

Mendocino County Today: Saturday, May 15, 2021

Scattered Showers | 7 New Cases | County Tiers | AVFD Insurance | Yorkville BBQ | AV Library | Vaccine Clinics | Hill Scraping | Jack Sharkey | Weed Funding | Coconut Luck | Cannabis Enforcement | Inglenook 1892 | Police Reports | Donkeyphone | Streetscape Update | Yesterday's Catch | Reading Together | Blues Feeling | Sacred Things | Iris Garden | Hoover Says | Wool Wagon | Shopping Experience | Cloverdale 1900 | Water Injustice | Wash Tank | Digital Revolution | River Otters | Tesla Owners | Corrupt Arrogance | Mountaintop | Ecology Song | Philbrick Truck | Israel Outrage | Free Palestine | Memory Hole

Correcting Political Correctness

California Governor Gavin Newsom may be an empty suit and Corporate Liberalism personified, but those trying to recall him are much worse. A prospective Republican challenger is Caitlin Jenner, the Olympic decathlon champ formerly known…

Mendocino County Today: Friday, May 14, 2021

Low Pressure | 8 New Cases | Bypass Fatality | Dry Year | Vaccine Events | Petrol Baggies | Ed Notes | Noyo Racetrack | Suicide Attempt | Stoner Proofing | County Notes | FB Aviators | Conflict Intervention | Velma's Farmstand | Flea Market | Yesterday's Catch | Slow Genocide | Touring Cholula | Median Wealth | Political Truth | High Wire | Frightening Place | Leo Tolstoy | Organic Farming | Gas Lines | Warming Consequence | Pro Maskers | Childcare Providers | Base Defense

The Mendocino Outlaws: Dr. Wheeler’s Escape

John Wheeler and James Anthony escaped from the county jail in Ukiah in the dinner hour of November 7, 1879. They employed a Babbitt metal key to unlock their cells and a door to the…

Coast Notes

Fort Bragg: Boar's Nest update: James Lindsay got a 60-day reprieve in Ten Mile Justice Court last Thursday. Sixty days to finish clearing out his yard — or more accurately, the quarter acre of 20th…

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