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Posts published in April 2022

Bondage at the Oscars

If ever there were steps of power that need storming by an angry mob, they are those of the Dolby Theatre on Hollywood Boulevard on Oscars Night. Truth be told, I don’t know if the…

Fraudulent Frisco

Have you ever felt like a fraud? Maybe you have at some juncture in your own life. Right now I feel like an imposter. I live in San Francisco, but I don't think of myself…

Mendocino County Today: Saturday, April 9, 2022

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Mendo’s  First ‘Aliens’ & POWs

If readers were ever curious about how WWII effected Mendocino citizens, here’s one answer. While many people are familiar with the internment camps for people of Japanese ancestry that the government established during World War…

Boonville’s Booklovers Bonanza

Right in the heart of downtown Boonville is a jewel hidden in plain sight. If you are a lover of books this is one jewel you must discover for yourself. Park next door to Boont…

Mendocino County Today: Friday, April 8, 2022

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Walking Home in the Rain

The sheriff’s dispatcher gave exact coordinates over the phone, out to seven digits I believe, so we knew exactly where the hiker was in relation to other planetary objects. But from where we stood at…

Sixty Dozen Eggs

On January 20, 1913, the Albion Lumber Co. ordered sixty dozen eggs from the J. T. Farrer Store in downtown Boonville. The eggs were packed in two wooden egg cases, which each held thirty dozen…

Huelga! Anderson Valley’s First Strike

CESAR CHAVEZ'S BIRTHDAY was Thursday the 31st. As we remember the crucial movement Chavez launched, we remind persons interested in Chavez and the UFW that the best book on Chavez is Frank Bardacke's Cesar Chavez…

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