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Posts published in September 2021

Valley People (September 15, 2021)

THE HOPKINS FIRE that broke out near Calpella north of Ukiah Sunday afternoon was declared “forward progress stopped” about 10pm Sunday evening and evacuation orders were reduced to warnings. Fire size was estimated at 275…

Mendocino County Today: Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2021

Hot Haze | 130 New Cases | Hopkins Fire | No Goats | 2 More Deaths | Color Coded | Flexible Mandate | Black Sheep | 101 Fatality | Bridge View | Ed Notes | Dihydrogen Monoxide | Trans Issue | Dark Cheney | Snake Eyes | $15 Eighths | Generous Cashier | Yesterday's Catch | Societal Breakdown | Jiffy Lube | Wireless Control | Wolf Pup | Comments | Big Indian | Overcoming Militarism | Freedom After | Embarrassing Bill | Happens Next | Wildly Effective | Worst Behind

Melville, Our Contemporary

I spent a good part of August 1, 2019, the 200th anniversary of the birth of Herman Melville, by doing what every red-blooded American ought to have done: I re-read “Moby-Dick,” that “staggering work of…

And Still They Howl

There was a time, and some of us remember it, when nightly howls echoed about the neighborhoods of Ukiah, howls intended as loud shouts of support for front line workers in the pandemic of 2020.…

Mendocino County Today: Monday, Sept. 13, 2021

Heating Up | 101 Fatality | Hopkins Fire | 1913 Parade | Forest Defenders | Boonville 1920 | Strong Recommendation | Horse Troopers | Grange Display | Highrollers 2014 | Big Fine | Precipice Parking | Ed Notes | Dog Out | Slow Mail | Hi-Fi | Tommy Texting | Greenville Speed | Client Liability | Yesterday's Catch | Preventing 911 | Ultimate Battle | Broken Heart | Mad Brute | Wrenching Poem | Day Shift | Marco Radio | Beach Censor | Solar Conversion | Poison Dinner | Afghan Women | Bernardo Provenzano | Bruising Statistic

My Life In Laytonville

As a fugitive from justice with regards to a 600 pound bust in Baltimore, I managed to purchase 160 acres of prime Woodman Creek property in the name of “Ryan Lee.” It was a sweet…

Woodrose Scenes

The iconic Woodrose Cafe in Garberville, California started in 1977 and was our unofficial community center for forty years, a local institution which is still going strong. At her thirtieth birthday party the owner and…

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