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Posts published in June 2022

KZYX Retrospective

KZYX was committed to community news from the very beginning. Bruce Herring, I believe, organized a patch-work of local news - getting people from around the county to contribute news from their areas. The mission…

Mendocino County Today: Sunday, June 5, 2022

Showers | Unity Officers | AV Events | School Events | County Code | Pet April | Ed Notes | Noyo 1868 | Fantasy Train | Woman Angler | Scattered Seams | Amendment Lesson | Budget Notes | Rigging Sled | Sales Tax | Not OJ | Sako Unfriended | Ed Freathy | Madam Defund | Yesterday's Catch | Ukraine | Lucy Corker | Swamp Gas | ADD | Depp v Heard | Race Relations | Piccolotti Kids | Invasive Species | Texas Tacos | Guadalupe Hidalgo | Fordlandia | 1913 Harley | Mister Whim | Great Beyond | Socialist Verses | Hot Lips | Scarry Classroom | Marco Radio | Jackscrewing | Hello Monkeypox | Reynard | NY Weedrush

Outgrowing the Guns

My dad was raised a Midwestern hunter and military man and had quite a few guns, which he had me trained to use at our local firing range. In the NRA-sponsored Junior Marksman course, I…

The New Errors of Downton Abbey

The crux dozen minutes of Robert Altman’s Gosford Park of 2001 unspool at the pace of parlor song. A real historical character—the matinee idol and songwriter, Ivor Novello, portrayed to elegant and resigned perfection by…

Mendocino County Today: Saturday, June 4, 2022

Rain Tonight | Farmers Market | School Updates | Streptocarpus | Tax Proposals | Philo Bridge | Vendors Sought | Road Cleanup | FFA Awards | Vote Right | Rockport 1953 | Mo Sez | Ridge Hotel | All League | Music Festival | County Management | Holy Ghosters | Mike Brock | Kangaroo Paw | Coal Train | Lightship | Ed Notes | Haircut | Your Vote | Yesterday's Catch | Pelosi Curse | M.M. Hazeltine | Ukraine | Gas Price | SF Hope | Duck Not | Slave Class | Waitress Break | Uneducated | Animal World | Republican Conscience | Elizabeth Hee | Ventura Interview | Quake Damage | Marco Radio | Gambling Raid | Oil Costs | Digitalis | Pump Tiptoe | Monkeypox Test | Bizarre Music | Tunnelvision | Getting Out

Don Dukes, AV’s First ‘City Person’?

Donald Dukes, current Board member of the Anderson Valley Historical Society, is also one of the first “City People” to migrate to The Valley right after World War II. Don was born in Central City,…

A Grander Old Party with Bruce

Bruce Anderson, forever the Editor of Boonville’s (and the world’s) Anderson Valley Advertiser, has a reputation near, far and in between as a rousing, relentless leftist.  His political image is so well established no one…

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