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Posts published in June 2021

Swearing, Language Of Morons

A couple years ago I was melting my brains while adding to future melanoma woes at Spring Training in Phoenix. It was scorching hot, or did I already say Phoenix? I was a few rows…

Mendocino County Today: Sunday, June 27, 2021

Cool Coast | Pet Pups | Forest Rally | Boobs Protest | Ordinance Repeals | Water Issue | Double Elimination | Outage Fire | Noyo Fireworks | Fiddleheads Finale | Hopland Pastoral | Mileage Mistake | Frontier Days | No Answer | Ukiah Fjords | Eel Diversion | Albion Mill | Mental Contract | American History | Caspar 4th | Ed Notes | Velvet Bandit | Sonoma Water | Yesterday's Catch | Wooden Carousels | Drought Data | Tattoo/Do | Building Socialism | Major Hub | Large Font | Eviction Moratorium | Too Boring | Creepy Joe | Homicide Spike | Weapons Biz | Ivermectin | Knight Riders | Backyard Oil | Not Freaks | Dem Meeting | Gualala 1937

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 land to settle on, sink your roots, work hard, create…

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 quiet. Every now and then though, a bum gets in…

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 commissioner to pursue their collective interests and be their mouthpiece.…

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 Valley; fascinating, unusual and slightly bizarre. Over its 150-year history,…

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 a mile outside of the Butte County community of Nimshew.…

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