He loved the sounds and the heft of words, though the first words he heard were not English words. Mais non. They were joual, the dialect of working class French Canadians spoken by his parents…
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Mendo's Drought Task Force Proposes New Drought Policy: ’Think Rain.’ That’s how Thursday afternoon’s Mendocino County Drought Task Force meeting ended. ’Think rain’ pretty nicely captures the level of (in)activity of Mendo’s Drought Task Force…
Jan. 27 was the largest turnout ever for public comments at a California Public Utility Commission meeting.…
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RECOMMENDED VIEWING. I never thought Bill Cosby was funny — all that cutesy mugging — and only caught glimpses of him over the years, not being a sitcom guy. The whole Cosby phenomenon passed me…
GOVERNOR NEWSOM’S Clean California Initiative will include some money for the “Central Boonville Beautification” project, specifically art, crosswalks, and street trees. ART? Uh oh. Could be dangerous to The Valley’s psychic well-being if by “art”…
On February 15th, the California-wide mask mandate is expiring. This allows people whose vaccinations for COVID are current to be indoors in public without a mask. Unvaccinated persons still must be masked. This does not…