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Posts published in October 2021

Balls to Masks

He had oil in his beard and defiance in his eye. Both gleamed in the October sunshine streaming through the windows at the back of the immigration hall at Heathrow Airport Terminal 2. The meticulously…

Two Days in Frisco

I moved to San Francisco from Santa Rosa in Sonoma County on May 15, and for the first two weeks I sat in my one-bedroom apartment and listened to the screeching sounds from the N-Judah…

Meth & Molotovs

(MCSO Press Release by Sergeant J. Wells) On 10-10-2021 at about 10:50 PM the California Highway Patrol (CHP) requested an agency assist from the Mendocino County Sheriff's Office (MCSO) in the area of Mile Post…

Mendocino County Today: Monday, Oct. 18, 2021

Dry Returns | Yesterday's Rainfall | Dawn | Covid Slowdown | Flu Shots | Weed Fans | 1632 Casualties | Heart Events | Fog | Ed Notes | Book Throwing | Blossoming | Walk/Ride | Catamount | Sky Hawking | Yesterday's Catch | Landmark Case | Comptche School | Reparations | Just Because | Water/Housing | America Fun | General Grant | Conspirituality | Snow Angel | Podcast Tips | Classified Transport | Summer Shower | Country Road | Beloved Braxton | Covid Powell | Republicare | Spook Love | CVFD 2013 | Big Asteroids

Visiting with Ray

This morning was all about my old sports buddy Ray. First I was dragging my tax info out of a shelf and found the donation envelope for “Nick's Interns” that I hadn't sent in yet.…

Book Review: Losing It

Morningside Heights by Joshua Henkin Pantheon Books, 2021; 292 pp. $26.95 Of all the dreaded afflictions that affect the human mind, the one that has come to be known as “Alzheimer’s Disease”* is surely among…

Mendocino County Today: Sunday, Oct. 17, 2021

Wet Ahead | Pet Dude | Policing Challenges | Wild Pigs | Anti-Vax Fee | Bobcat | Dog Stories | Pigeon | Dredging Question | Bear | Ed Notes | Yesterday's Catch | Loo Ado | Enough Drink | Electric Waste | Living Wage | Riot Consequences | SkyCot | Reporter's Alert | Streetlight Maintenance | Marco Radio | Ukiah Snow | Goodbye America

The College Kid Runs the Ukiah Auction

So to wrap up the Ukiah Sale sheep auction management saga, here’s a description of what a grueling summer day out in the dusty sheep pens and corridors felt like to a forty year old…

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