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Posts published in August 2022

Why Anderson Valley?

Why do you live in Anderson Valley? How did you even find Anderson Valley? Unless you were born here or brought here by your parents you have a story about how you ended up here.…

Driving California Byways To A Reunion

Loving parts of my past I jumped at the opportunity to return to the San Diego area for my 56th high school reunion in July. But not wanting to possibly endanger my health mixing with…

The Family Ordeal, Updated

All happy families are alike, and they live somewhere I’ve never been.  All weird families are screwed up in different ways, and please allow me to count them. I just returned from a seven-day family…

Mendocino County Today: Sunday, August 21, 2022

Slight Cooling | Shark Sighting | Football Assistants | AV Events | Wharf Maidens | Konocti Fire | Pups | Monkeypox | Dog Dining | Public Records | Theron Memorial | Remembering Dave | Grammer Students | Electric Cars | Piggyback Harley | Cliff Collapse | Bunner Generations | Sea Rise | Yesterday's Catch | Sea Ranch | Flying Carrot | Planet Emergency | Quake Damage | California Grizzly | Destruction Nation | Jan Sixers | Unhinged Leftists | Mendo Barber | True Left | How Come | Consciousness Raising | Psychopathia Sexualis | Marco Radio | Hammer Lost | Oil Wells | Spirited Rhetoric

Sam Prather, 1942-2022

I don’t recollect when or how Sammy “Prather Ranch” Prather and I first met. But I do know it wasn’t long after I arrived in Anderson Valley in 1971. Perhaps it was at the Floodgate…

Diego Rivera Back In Town, Again

Diego Rivera is back in town again. No, not in person. He died in 1957 in Mexico City at the age of 70. But his art is in San Francisco, where he painted murals in…

Mendocino County Today: Saturday, August 20, 2022

Inland Heat | Ed Notes | Caspar Concert | Fire-Chief's Report | Team Nozall | JDSF Vision | Pink Ladies | Suspicious Fires | Tiny Homes | Violation Notice | Mendo Mill | Search & Rescue | Worst Story | Samson Sentenced | Chance Meeting | Yesterday's Catch | People's Park | Chickens Grace | Grotesque Shadows | Serious Question | Pigeon Girl | Hothouse Earth | Marilyn's Caddy | Rethink Racing | Debt Slaves | SF Horrors | Ethical Doctors | Bob & Joe | Rushdie Cause | Dog On | Candidates Climate | Land Backer | Marco Radio

The Rip-off of C.R.A.F.T.

I’ve never heard anyone say they’d been burned by Alan Sorrentino — quite a tribute in an industry full of backstabbers. He runs an Oakland-based delivery service called C.R.A.F.T.  About two-thirds of the cannabis C.R.A.F.T. sells…

MTC’s Production — The Moors

In its last weeks, thru August 21, 2022 Playwright — Jen Silverman Director — Roxy Seven Actors: EMILIE — Pamela W. Allen, AGATHA— Jessica Carroll, MOOR HEN — Ricci Dedola, MASTIFF by Mark Friedrich, MARJORY…

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