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Posts published in August 2022

Mendocino County Today: Monday, August 22, 2022

Seasonable Weather | Sunflower | BBQ Turnout | Sergeant Murray | Baum's Drugs | Write History | Coastal Cleanup | Toddler Autopsy | Casimir's Buggy | Avian Flu | Policing Police | Daily Trains | Adventist Stay | Sunset | Macdonald Books | Steam Laundry | Ed Notes | Bosa Ready | Water Facts | Yesterday's Catch | Ban Rentals | Shantytown | Dog's Will | Teacher Trick | Highway Raven | Shipyard | Third World | Mayo Cake | Ukraine | Times Square | People Lose | Dem Bitches

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…

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