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Posts published in August 2021

Attention & Other Stories

It's all about attention: we all want it, we all need it, so how we gonna get it? There is a finite amount and social media is sucking up most of it. Thousands of engineers…

Mendocino County Today: Saturday, August 7, 2021

Warm Again | Another Death | River View | Water Emergency | Free Concert | River Cleanup | Schoolbus | Crisis Log | Albion 1950 | Silly Disputes | Italian Grocery | Healdsburg Bakery | Bobcat | Referendum Bad | Larson Inn | Gun Brandishing | 1904 Stipps | Ed Notes | Opera House | Special Meeting | Streetscape Update | Yesterday's Catch | Ukiah High | Welcome Pyrocene | Sultan Says | Apple Lilac | Mummy Sale | New Path | Stengal Success | Common Sense | Covelo Cows | Raising Pigs

Brotherly Love

As an adult, the smartest thing my mentally ill and drug-addicted brother did was to move to the City and County of San Francisco. I was there the day it happened. I had just picked…

Richard (Rich) Arnold Johnson

A resident of Novato, Richard Arnold Johnson died of kidney failure on July 22nd. Born in San Francisco on December 26th, 1939, Richard moved to Marin County when he was 6, and was thereafter a…

Old Town’s Not The Same

That’s the name of a song which reminds me of Ukiah. I needed to visit an appliance store on the north end of town. When we finished leaving a cooler for repair and turned south,…

Mendocino County Today: Friday, August 6, 2021

Warm | 36 New Cases | Vax & Test | Sally Gearhart | Barn Sale | Rich Padula | Mendo Outbreak | Immunization Registry | Sunflowers | JDSF Balance | Haiku Walk | Lange Talk | Water Curtailments | Buffalo Bill | Bearproofing | Record Drought | Cannachat | Grant Workshops | Philo Farm | Produce Exchange | Foil Wrap | Crop Drop | Undercover K9s | Ed Notes | Undercover Cop | General Government | Ammo Love | 5 Felonies | Yesterday's Catch | Carpool Lanes | Zoomerang | Louis Firetail | Political Extremes | Last Claim | Redtail Hawk | Recall Election | Frikkin Love | Mexico Sues | Shareholders First | Tethered | Small Skulls | Republicans Bad | Autograph | Nuclear Bailout | Sacto Salmon | Suffrage Parade | Useless Parties | Trapeze Swinger

Local Angles

Last week Willits made the front page of the AVA and the obituary section of the New York Times, where the death of Sally Miller Gearhart  was acknowledged. The farewell by Annabelle Williams described Gearhart as “a feminist, lesbian…

Dr. Wheeler Cheats The Hangman?

On May 13, 1880, a visiting Sonoma County judge sentenced Dr. John F. Wheeler to death by hanging for his role in the ambush slaying of two Mendocino City men in October, 1879. Deputies returned…

Ukiah Mural Repeatedly Vandalized

After one small figure in the sprawling historical mural being painted along one block of West Church Street was vandalized three times in one week, artist Lauren Sinnott said she plans to change it. “One…

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