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Posts published in August 2021

Dying Culture

What is seduction? It's when you aim to persuade someone to have sex with you, whether they want to or not. But maybe it's lots of other things. I’m open to that idea, though right…

14-Year-Old Dies in High Speed Pursuit

On 8/7/2021, at approximately 0130 hours, the Ukiah Police Department attempted to make a traffic stop on a gray 2017 Volkswagen Beetle within the city limits of Ukiah. The Volkswagen failed to yield and began fleeing…

Mendocino County Today: Monday, August 9, 2021

Milder Temps | Sunset Colors | Greedy Kulaks | Boonville Hills | Gualala Strained | Whiny Dolt | Climate Refugees | Ukiah Mural | Generation Gap | Animal Rescue | Mouseketeer | Preserve Nature | Levi Loose | Lollapaloozing | Spirit Animals | Sheep Shearing | Idahohos | Our Own | Symbolic Frivolity | Bucklesby Bench | Ed Notes | Human Traffickers | False Division | Yesterday's Catch | Powerplant Offline | Stay Put | Obama Mansion | Tax Dollars | Ready Teddy | Rigged Race | Recall Votes | Installed On | Global Greenhouse | Ukulele Song

Georgiana Hathaway

Georgiana Hathaway entered the world in early December, 1887, at Point Arena where her parents had resided for years after emigrating from Maine and Massachusetts. Her father, Robert Hathaway, possessed a beard that grew to…

Al Erle: The Man To See

Picture a slim, beardless ruddy-cheeked Swedish Santa Claus in a slate blue business suit and brightly striped bow tie with the rough, gnarled hands of a catcher. It's Al Erle, the benevolent czar of semi-pro…

Butt Washers & Other War Stories

I pinched another one out of my motorcycle seat recently after I made a right turn, and afterwards failed to cancel my non-self-cancelling turn indicator. An oncoming driver understandably anticipating I was about to turn…

Mendocino County Today: Sunday, August 8, 2021

Slightly Milder | Tom Cahill | $300 Rabbits | Gathering Canceled | Cactus Flower | BBQ Canceled | PG&E Firestarter | Repent Ye | Water Curtailments | Wine Brick | Algal Mats | Vertiginous | Pet Blaze | Comptche PO | Reno Rodeo | Ukiah 1933 | Curtailment List | Delta Dining | Coastal Water | Table Scraps | Deputy CEOs | Constant Criticism | Yesterday's Catch | Jesus Reminder | Lawrence Ferlinghetti | Riding Shotgun | Glen Ford | Painted Mask | Growing Old | Interest Free | Disturbed Minds | Child Allergy | Covid Response | Isms | Completely Symbolic | Summer Day | Collective Suicide | Key Opened

Hounds & Hogs, Men & Truffles

Among the most alluring of cross-species collaborations is truffle hunting, a pursuit that brings dog—or, more rarely these days, pig—together with man. Women, it seems, are as uncommon as swine in this field. Unearthing culinary…

Pacification

The pacifiers were sold one to a package. I asked for a dozen—maybe $20 worth back then. “That's a lot,” the clerk said. “You don't know this baby,” I told her. Bill H. was one…

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