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Posts published in September 2022

I’ve Got You Under My Skin

Chiggers are small, affectionate animals frequently encountered in the southeast and which the North Carolina Board of Tourism wisely avoids mentioning in its travel literature and nature guides. Chiggers are a tiny fraction of the…

Mendocino County Today: Sunday, Sept. 18, 2022

Rain Arrives | Gutters Cleaned | Boonville Stadium | Pet Sprout | FFA Booth | Garden Delights | Fair Weekend | Harvest Dinner | Schapmire Prophecy | Pair | Ed Notes | Redwood Dance | Life Sentence | Yesterday's Catch | Grocery Outlet | Lance-a-lot | Garcia Chute | Executive Search | Kniphofia | Marco Radio | Acorn Festival | Water Wars | Measure P | Painful Read | Lazy Jack | Ukraine | Nonworking Hispanic | Screen Images | 7th Branch | Just Nuts | Fat Chamber | Sam Langford | Very Little | Roadkill Day | Fifi Save | Crumb Interview | Sutter Buttes | Renegade DOJ | Trash Trail

Books are Not Quite Dead: AVA Readers Talk Books

Attention readers and writers: Send us your list of favorite books, especially the ones that influenced the way you live and think. We'll begin with Bruce McEwen who has inspired me to list some of…

Mendocino County Today: Saturday, Sept. 17, 2022

Showers Tonight | MacCallums | Best Tenant | Alice Fashauer | Cuthbertson Wedding | Covid Booster | Peace Van | Robert Logan | Swimmers | Crane Murder | Cosmo Fire | Rain Prep | Bunyan Load | Church Service | Survey Extended | Fair Sports | DA Questions | Greenwood Coast | Not Transparent | Strawberry Tree | Cookies Review | Professional Tans | Summer House | Yesterday's Catch | Ecstatic Ritual | Mendo Barn | Marco Radio | Graceful Flatulence | Delta Hearings | City Layers | Healthcare Needed | God Save | Jarman's Jubilee | Two Bodies | Limiting Ourselves | Why Despair | Rope-a-Dope | Dalai Donald | Ukraine | Snowy Mountains

Another “Arkie” Mill Saga: Down at Buster Hollifield’s

When Hollifield came here and built his mill, everyone wanted to work for him… — Ken Hurst recollection, August, 2022 When I first moved to The Valley half a century ago, locals were still telling…

Interview With My Double

Q: You have a Double? A: I was tired of being a solitary white male. I wanted a shadow, a Double. Try one on for size. You might like one. Q: Are you related to…

Mendocino County Today: Friday, Sept. 16, 2022

Rain Ahead | Open House | Chowder House | Whispering Winds | Boont Fundraiser | KMUD Party | Abortion Access | Candidate Forum | Dogwood | Quality | Historians | Cookies Concern | Council Candidates | FB Platform | Pet Clinic | Finnish Mural | Pond Consultants | Will Bourns | County Notes | Lady Hoopsters | Ed Notes | Mind Absorbed | Samuel Cummings | Demonizing Homeless | Yesterday's Catch | Dem Postcards | Domesticated Bob | Dream Journal | Osaka Postcard | Spraying Poison | Rail Strike | Weird Hairdo | Shaping Debate | Bulwer-Lytton | Listening Louis | Vineyard Migrants | FDR News | Union Vote | Brewery Workers | Unauthorized Journalism | Pencil Store | Ukraine | Umbrella Woman

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