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Posts published in August 2022

Mendocino County Today: Monday, August 15, 2022

Warming | Smoky Air | Producing Reports | Corner Church | 56th Reunion | Albion Rowes | Family Ordeal | Lilies | River Otters | Used Clothing | River Outing | Tackling Homelessness | Fig Harvest | Ethnic Jokes | Pomo Burial | Me Too | Downtown Disrepair | Stump Ranch | Bus Rides | Albion Bridge | Abusive Deputies | Yesterday's Catch | Teaching Career | Auto Nerves | Police Scanning | Not Helpless | Ukraine | Blonde Men | Garland Raid | Prayer First | 2022 Election | Economic Inequality | Jones Verdict | Trump Obsession | Dem Bill | Rabbi Fatwa | Institution Disrespect | Stone Tower | Conflict Danger | Alvars | Civilization Collapse

No More Misbehaving At Public Meetings

Don’t be surprised if sometime in the very near future you hear the presiding officer at a local government meeting announce, “This meeting will come to order or we’ll toss you and your behind out!”…

Neighbors

There's a group of about six houses down the hill and everyone drives by my house, mostly neighborly slow, but a couple of them barrel by multiple times a day on their way to town.…

Mendocino County Today: Sunday, August 14, 2022

Seasonable Today | Hummer | Caregiver | Pet Toby | Airborne Truck | Staircase | Great Day | Floods | Empty Storefronts | Senior Benefit | Not Railroad | Libraries | AV Calendar | Russell Kelly | AVUSD Update | Caspar Kids | Monumental Blunder | Redwood Crew | Film Workshop | Switzers | Ed Notes | Navarro Ridges | Sports Betting | Yesterday's Catch | Water Price | Schlitz Parade | Bostrodamus | Agriculture/Permaculture | Dangerous Trip | Trump Watch | Domestic Terrorists | Mens Shelter | Marxist Mayor | Sleeping Gardener | Raid Boomerang | Alexander Knows | Kissinger Wary | Fighter Jet | Espionage Act | Kicker Kicking | Hitchhiking | Joker Justice | Marco Radio | Mathura

Donald Dukes: The First “City Kid,” Part 2

My earlier report on the childhood of Donald Dukes, Bob Glover’s step-son, described his migration from a Kentucky coal camp to industrial Hammond, Indiana, to Bob’s ancestral Guntly Ranch all by the age of ten.…

The Woman Who Funded Alex Thomas Plaza

Gabrielle Hall Thomas, matriarch of a family with deep roots in the agricultural history of the Ukiah Valley, died August 3 at the Sequoias in San Francisco where she lived in recent years. She was…

Mendocino County Today: Saturday, August 13, 2022

Mild Weekend | Cloudy Moon | Peachland Delays | Boonville Preschool | County Finances | Boont Bouquets | Skunk Lawsuit | Nevampera Trio | Adventist & Anthem | Donald Philbrick | Szagora Fine | Poisoned Trees | Fetzer/Bonterra | Jennie Pesula | Back-Seat Alfredo | Yesterday's Catch | Mendo Gridders | Fire Information | Trail Delusion | Gone Forever | Bobolink | Bill Passes | Marriage Advice | Rushdie Stabbed | Massive Wealth | Ukraine | Kaepernick Signed | Diamond Jim | Old Tats | Seized Records | Jail Card | Trump Besieged | Republican Spines | Gestapo Steal | Nuclear Documents | More Respectable | Gym Rats | Marco Radio | Sempe Covers

A Friend of Bill’s

UCSF Medical Center is the largest employer in San Francisco besides the city and county itself. Cliff LeBlanc worked there for more than 42 years, retiring in 1998. He was calm, amiable, very knowledgable about…

Give the Most, Get the Most

I had a heated discussion recently about why people “do good” for others. One side believed that the only reason people volunteer or participate to help other people is that it “makes them feel good…

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