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Posts published in December 2022

Letters (December 8, 2022)

A hundred years ago a person in San Francisco could take the ferry to Tiburon, get on the train and later that same day be on the Eel River as a guest in a tourist hotel…

Mendocino County Today: Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2002

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Off the Record (December 7, 2022)

THE ETERNAL matter of the The People vs. Douglas Stone, aka the Burglar of Black Bart Road, or Exhibit A of How the Mendocino County Superior Court allows defendants of means to delay their reckonings…

Valley People (December 7, 2022)

DID ANYONE SEE THIS ACCIDENT? I am wondering about the following: I was involved in a car accident last Monday, 11/28, in Yorkville, at approximately 1:15pm.  The accident occurred directly in front of my home.…

China Tries to Quietly Back Down on Zero-COVID Policy

Since the start of the pandemic, China has attempted to control COVID through widespread testing leading to strict lockdowns whenever the virus is detected in a community.  People that test positive are taken to regional…

Mendocino County Today: Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2022

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Billy Owens, the “Okie/Arkie”: Bill’s Life in Music

Last week’s Billy Owens story began with our first meeting on Friday nights at the Floodgate Store bar down near Navarro.  Time for the rest of that story.  My wife Anna’s providing the instrument for…

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