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Posts published in August 2021

Mendocino County Today: Monday, August 23, 2021

Pleasant Weather | 57th Death | Snowless Shasta | Weed/Water/Fire | Join Us | Ristorante Closing | Homeless Sparks | Drive-thru Fire | Spangled Supervisor | Agenda Notes | Mendo Water | Found Dead | Love Bite | Al Weger | Ed Notes | Future Vision | Wonderful/Dismal | Tanoak Park | Lake Sonoma | Yesterday's Catch | Fed Students | Vaccine Freedoms | Fox Headline | Downton Tabby | Clearlake Refugees | Kitty Trim | Frenchy Cannoli | Diet Talk | Covid Frontline | William Whipple | Rejected Invaders | Jack Hirschman | Wash Like | Bad Recall

Shropshire In New York

An early August road trip heading east from the city of Ithaca across New York State promises calm, pastoral progress.  With farming in steep decline…

$1500 Pig’s Feet

My wife and I are both great supporters of the Junior Livestock Auctions held at local fairs. Recently we attended the pig auction at the…

Mendocino County Today: Sunday, August 22, 2021

Pleasant Weather | Streetscape Update | Wells Failing | Picnic Concert | Farm Report | Pet Alice | Garden Workshop | Flicker Time | Shark Bit | Masonic Interior | Ed Notes | Blue Moon | Yesterday's Catch | Forests Closed | Electric Conundrum | Agrarian Cassandra | War Economy | Country Store | Code Red | Zohnerism | Rotten Edifice | Mendo 1934 | Unfair Recall | Mendo 1882 | Divine Garlic | Arboreal Handoff | Escalating Violence | Ashamed | Camp Piercy | Fire Water | Henri Landfall

The Subprime of Ms. Jane Brody

We are coming up on the 25th anniversary of the Election Day on which California voters legalized marijuana for medical use. Expect a wave of…

Ravens Join the Healing Parade

Two swallowtail butterflies are again fluttering in my backyard, bringing me cheer for about the 20th year in a row. It remains a mystery whether…

Mendocino County Today: Saturday, August 21, 2021

Smoke Clearing | 51 New Cases | Yorkville Market | Wendling 1905 | Cider Festival | Work/Play | GJ Homelessness | Old Ukiah | Advocate Gone | School 1890 | Jail Bug | Palace 1880 | Denny's Covid | Howard Street | BOS Directives | PA Agenda | Longvale Station | Streetscape Update | Donohue Hotel | Phone Scam | Yesterday's Catch | Piercy Station | Deep Rot | No Fly | Presidential Decrees | Jesse James | Recall Postcards | Falling | Marco Radio | Poppies | Water Order | Babe 1925 | Flophouse Farms | Alas | Elder Interview | Days Ago | Dems Bad | Semper Fidelis | Historic Peace | Lone Ranger | Intellectual Animals | Heebie Jeebies

The Vanishing Legacy of Barack Obama

On the road from stirring symbol of hope and change to the Fat Elvis of neoliberalism, birthday-partying Barack Obama sold us all out  It is…

The Good, The Bad & The Horrific

Marijuana was the surprise ingredient in the economy of the backwoods in the mid-seventies and made a lot of twenty-something dirty hippies, slackers, and university-educated…

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