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Posts published in September 2021

Portrait of a Marijuana Widow

War makes women into widows. In fact, war is called "the widow maker." Football also makes some women into widows, especially during football season, which has started once again with a vengeance in high schools,…

Mendocino County Today, Sunday, Sept. 19, 2021

Clearing Sky | Summer Over | Holmer Retires | Fair 4Hers | Cop Culture | Dinosmokes | Look Force | Blackbear Apprehended | Swimming Hole | Trail Talk | Hubby Horse | Public Zoomed | Mendo Doughboys | Ed Notes | Madrone Branch | Eel Dry | Yesterday's Catch | Petro Corruption | Billionaire Debt | Creek Beds | Degas Drawing | Purification | SF Hobo | Abusing Arabs | Patdown Fan | Hart Attacked | Marriage Logic | Stoner Purge | New Neighbors | Animal Rights | American Teacher | One Destiny | Last Steelhead | Rain Light | Stagnant River | Dangerous Delusions

Peacock Perils

I am a mom through and through, and not just to my two kids Kodiak and Cassidy, who turned out to be wonderful human adults. I’m also mom to an array of rescued animals. The…

Mendocino County Today: Saturday, Sept. 18, 2021

Rain | 24 New Cases | Yorkville Market | BOLO Blackbear | Fiscal Obfuscation | Fair Shots | Vaccine Efficacy | Past Fairs | Essential Tremor | Little Tremor | Hopkins Meeting | Editor Pugh | Chauncey Gardiner | Water Heroes | Asset Management | Freaky Fruit | Not Okay | Ed Notes | Arson Plea | MCN Scam | Yesterday's Catch | Misery Profit | Headshapes | Hirschman Memorial | Midair Revelation | Prices | Sherman Wrap | Park Degradation | No Unicycles | American Divide | T-Baller | Let's Go | Feel Useless | Game Changers | JFK 1960 | Remember Me

The Last Days of the Redwood Record

I was hanging around The Redwood Record in Garberville, California toward the end in 1995 and that place was a zoo: stoners, neurotics, alcoholics, and freaks — I guess I fit right in. There was…

Mendocino County Today: Friday, Sept. 17, 2021

Rain Coming | 49 New Cases | County Fair | 1959 Fairgrounds | Ballot Counting | Recall/Covid | Toxic Lake | Apple Bowl | Cannabis Repeal | Octopus Hill | County Scofflaw | Free Stuff | Witter Ranch | Glancing Fireballs | Ed Notes | Slatten Spree | Tax Gown | Price Fallout | Pink Flameter | Abandoned Vehicles | Profit Outlook | Climate Wine | Yesterday's Catch | Final Entry | Antietam Diary | MCN Birth | Mill Workers | Bogus History | Garden Therapy | Public Education | Vaccine Questions | 1965 Parade | Short Staffing | Free Speeching

911

“David and Nelson’s twin tombstones” is what Jack Newfield called the Twin Towers, which were rising steadily in the winter of 1970/71. They cast rectangular shadows over more and more of Lower Manhattan in the…

Mendocino County Today: Thursday, Sept. 16, 2021

Cooling Trend | 51 New Cases | Ballot Count | BOLO Covelo | Delivering Water | Fair HQ | Hopkins Fire | Apple Display | Chief's Report | Bull Rider | Darcy Art | Sheep Dogging | Westport Homicide | Arson Plea | Llama Lady | Beyond Desperate | Mother's Meth | Fighting Words | Ed Notes | Other Place | Probation Visit | Pilgram Popped | Yesterday's Catch | Adventurous | Battling Pandemics | Covidmandering | Feckless Congress | Young Customers | Bad Cops | Morning Glories | Moderate Sellout

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