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Posts published in June 2021

Another Frontier Icon: Lyle Luckert

George Zeni’s family represented, in my explorations into American family sagas, one pattern of immigration and settlement in our country.  Find the best piece of…

Clarity

Today they close early, I have to keep that in mind. Here at the library, I can easily fall asleep. Everything is so peaceful, so…

Mendocino County Today: Saturday, June 26, 2021

Hot Interior | 6 New Cases | Water Meetings | Asian Salad | Big Heat | Philo Farmstand | Saving JDSF | Ducks Crossing | Preserve Forest | Elections Report | Far Side | Russian Dwindle | Molgaard Directive | Crop Water | Muralist Sinnott | No Oversight | Coast Wildflowers | Ineptocracy | 1907 Stagecoaches | Fire Trap | Reggae Grange | Evacuation Passes | Field Guide | Ed Notes | Stolen ATV | School Street | Streetscape Update | Yesterday's Catch | Big Sturgeon | Tower Demolition | Struggling Dummy | Transgender Weightlifter | National Collapse | Diabetes Help | My Outage | Silence Dome

Mark Stein Tries to Dunk on LeBron James

On sports pages and websites, “the league” and ”the NBA”  refer to the billionaires who own the franchises — not the athletes they employ. The owners appoint a…

The Saga Of Yorkville…The Town That Moved

A reader of this publication recently asked about the history of Yorkville. The answer to this innocuous question is a tale that is pure Anderson…

Mendocino County Today: Friday, June 25, 2021

Hot Interior | 6 New Cases | Robert Tognoli | Albion Bridge | Excessive Heat | 2021 Fair | Boonville Farmers | The Om | Jackson Standoff | Velvet Bandit | Willits Train | Truly Awful | Chuck You | Ed Notes | Plea Deal | Alcoholic Spirits | Gun Talk | Thaddeus Kerns | City Booth | Lar & Lu | Wild Fish | Rape Whys | PG&E Programs | Suzi Art | 707 Overlay | Persson Sculpture | Hope Falling | Yesterday's Catch | Sham Budget | Nonworking Breed | New Pavement | Woke Offense | Human Frailty | CRV Scam | Fool Hill | Still Dead | Condo Collapse | Nina Fear | Radioactive Story

Mendocino Outlaws: And Then There Was One

At dawn on Friday, December 5, 1879, Mendocino County Sheriff Jim Moore, Deputy Doc Standley, a stage driver, and twenty-one-year-old Clarence White surrounded a cabin…

Rumor Mills & Windmills

According to an AVA post by Rye N Flint, “Local rumor mill has it that Jim Shields permitted 24 out-of-county water trucks to fill up…

Mendocino County Today: Thursday, June 24, 2021

Scattered Thunderstorms | 11 New Cases | Fire Water | Buoy Tender | Capping Cannabis | Adoption Event | Budget Notes | Ancient Tree | Ed Notes | Point Arena Lighthouse | Mendo Water | Baron Buy | Gun Trafficker | Choice Illusions | Yesterday's Catch | Hedy Lamarr | Wretched 60 | Fresh Eggs | Comments | Lookout Tower | Bluebird Lady | All Screwed | Eviction Moratorium | Butter Good | Maddow Fiction

The Salt, The Sea, The Smell, The Software

The Fort Bragg City Council held its third face-to-face meeting with the public Monday night, after more than a year of lockdown Zoom democracy.  There…

County Notes (June 23, 2021)

REMEMBER THAT SILLY DISCUSSION the Supervisors had on Tuesday, June 9th about holding department heads personally responsible for budget-overruns in their departments?  AT THE TIME,…

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