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Posts published in August 2022

Macy’s Last Stand

Like others, it’s fair to say, or at least like other oldies, I had not purchased any new clothing in a year. I sometimes wore the same shirt and jeans for a month.The only people…

Mendocino County Today: Sunday, August 7, 2022

Summer Weather | Picnic | Shameful Firing | Pet Ranger | Callie & Sarah | Schools Update | Mendosa Family | RIP Li'l Man | Ruth Stickney | AV Events | Chavez Vigil | Foggy Gomes | Old Timer | Summer Garden | Ed Notes | Adams Sisters | Driving Tips | Yesterday's Catch | Earth Day | Journalism Died | Jousters | Explaining Brittney | Harvest Wagon | Family Ad | Manchin Priorities | Punishing Defiance | Phone Rates | Marco Radio | Aline Ford

Our Times: An Error of Omission

Margaret Renkl, 61, is a New York Times opinion columnist who describes her beat as “flora, fauna, politics and culture in the American South.” She lives in Nashville where she was a high school teacher…

Painterland

The most famous event in the history of avant-garde literary San Francisco was Allen Ginsberg’s reading of “Howl” at the Six Gallery at 3119 Fillmore St. on Oct. 7, 1955. That frenzied reading, the subsequent…

Mendocino County Today: Saturday, August 6, 2022

Near Normal | Junior Livestock Auction | AVFFA Ribbons | 8th Grade | Gabrielle Thomas | Boonfire Caspar | Drought News | William Westfall | More Curtailments | Chow Quon | Help Ellie | Elma Guise | Ask Chamise | Deirdre Lamb | JDSF Victory | Daniel Milliken | Neily Interview | Bart Wiki | Sordid Feathers | Logger Cabin | Shackman Convicted | Yesterday's Catch | DDT Dumping | Chariot Pull | Ukraine | Chin Extension | Fact Checkers | PR Department | Glance Ahead | UPS Conditioning | Last Week | Lincoln Memorial

Aunt Blanche Brown & Indian Creek (Part 2)

Two weeks ago our story introduced us to the life of Aunt Blanche Brown, teacher, historian, community asset.  The episode ended with the fire that consumed her Indian Creek home in January, 1956.  This week…

Free At Last To Drink 24/7

If you’re thinking about when to retire you should quit thinking and start partying like it’s 1999, back when you were younger, smarter and better looking. Putting off retirement because your Social Security check will…

Mendocino County Today: Friday, August 5, 2022

Near Normal | Poultry Ribbons | FB Reunion | AVFD Event | Two Feathers | Caspar 1910 | JDSF Update | Search & Rescue | NOAA Down | Ed Notes | Analogue Magic | MCBG Event | Willfully Interrupting | Brockway Pleads | Great Day | Wokiah | Kwan Tai | Mystery Woman | Yesterday's Catch | Bus Stop | You Tell Me | Black Bart | Falling Crew | Passportization | Raider Tears | Electric Shock | Shots Booster | State Propositions | Peter & Orson | Burying Lines | New Swing | Impotent Media | Porrón

The Low Down-Dest Election In Mendo History

Hutchins: 8,514 (47%) Glentzer: 10,575 (53%) Margin: 2,061 Undervotes: 2,800 The Grand Jury, and maybe even the DA, ought to look into the recent election for County Superintendent of Schools. Yeah, yeah, I was for incumbent…

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