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Posts published in October 2022

Saving Finnish Lodge

Built in 1914, this gigantic hall was once Socialist Hall and Fort Bragg Labor Temple before becoming Eagles Hall in 1960. The Eagles are now defunct and the hall was sold to Stathi Pappas and…

Mendocino County Today: Monday, Oct. 17, 2022

Moist Cool | Pups Aplenty | Pomo Art | Weed Nightmare | Starbucks Saga | Twin Tragedies | JDSF Rally | Yes P | Ross Bros | Women Artists | Gas Gougers | Log Refuse | Rain Show | Yesterday's Catch | Hard Time | Industrial Trombone | Flag Football | Making Godzilla | Niner Loss | Big Hand | Mr Pianalto | Mosey Competition | My Daughter | Lost Chihuahua | Art Protest | Microplastics | Ukraine | Sun Worship | Western Hypocrisy | Postage Stamp

The Old Lady In The Trailer

For about three years in the late 1970s my brother Hugh was an administrative law judge for the state’s Social Services Department, a “Welfare Hearing Officer.” His job basically entailed driving around northern California’s rural…

Elsewhere In The News

ABC ran a special Sept. 22 honoring Norman Lear age 100. He has all his marbles and is full of life. His friend, Rita Moreno, also looked great. She chided him for not hiring her…

Mendocino County Today: Sunday, Oct. 16, 2022

Cooling | Found Cat | Chamber Music | Mendo Hills | Prescribed Burns | Skate Park | AV Events | Theater Fundraiser | Puppies | Seeking Malique | Studios Tour | Panther Pride | Ed Notes | Hauling Tanbark | Unappreciated Advice | Goldie Gone | Marijuana Mess | Dem Endorsements | Shark Alert | Yesterday's Catch | Suspect Caught | Many Storms | Washington Crossing | Still Hopeful | Psychic Fair | Big Questions | Paradisal Ideal | Marco Radio | Kid's Pistola | Solutions | Twain Lecture | Kardashian Watch | Ukraine | Throwing Rocks | Apocalypse Soon | Goodbye Miami

Passing the Bucks and the Baton

Since its birth as a distinct category Classical Music has been allied with War. The orchestra as a European institution came into existence in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries alongside the formation of standing armies.…

Mendocino County Today: Saturday, Oct. 15, 2022

Warm Afternoon | JoAnn Charles | Dwarf Iris | ALRVFD Event | Open Sluice | Caregiver Sought | Backyard Sculpture | Candidate Questions | Logs Stored | County Agenda | Panthers Creamed | Line Hardening | Dam Construction | Public Records | Halloween Tarot | Laundry Search | Yesterday's Catch | Banned Books | Recent Reads | Ms Mayhem | Marco Radio | Thirds Kill | Fern Canyon | Hun Dining | Completely Nuts | Mr Hotdog | Uncovered Story | Peasant Holidays | Ronald Training | Mephisto | Authoritarian Revolution | Leaky Robot | London Stage | Ukraine | Uninvited Guest | Sane Response | This Week | Public Execution

Grandma Stubblefield, Part IV

Stoic as always Susan Murray, after her husband Cleveland died in 1865, continued gracefully and ambitiously down her life’s road. She and the children, with support from the neighbors, continued to run the family farm…

Mendocino County Today: Friday, Oct. 14, 2022

Fog & Sun | Rain Outlook | Boulder Help | Graduates | Ukiah Wireless | Village Survey | Resilient Lands | AVUSD News | For Sher | Motherbear Jazz | Hazmat Boonville | Red Thing | Yeah Sher | Spice Boys | See NorCal | Halloween Show | Ed Notes | Emergency Nurses | New Specs | Yesterday's Catch | Water Aware | Grape Encroachment | Napa Flameout | People's Park | Fake Webbery | Leaving Florida | Last Day | Jan 6 Report | Poe Couple | Rundown SF | At Ease | Shema Prayer | Blade Runner | War Prayer | First Prez | Ukraine | Fine Comparison | Pipeline Terrorist | Acorns | Depraved Madness | Losing Faith | What Plan | Living/Dying

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