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Posts published in February 2023

Mendocino County Today: Sunday, Feb. 26, 2023

More Rain | Roads Report | Pet Clifford | AVUSD News | Brovarney Talk | Supes Yawn | Cannabis Chat | Whale Watching | Super Hercules | AV Events | 1908 Style | Ed Notes | Taco Truck | Snow Days | Cloverdale Pick's | No Power | Yesterday's Catch | Water Matters | Trapped | Thoreau Pencil | Marco Radio | Risky Additives | Those Bastards | James Baldwin | Propaganda Journalism | Beautiful Reciprocal | Ukraine | Kennedys

If I Can’t Have Her, Nobody Can Have Me

A back page blip announcing an unnatural death rattled around in my head for a long time before I exorcized it by giving it a prose toe tag. In the November 9, 2005 edition of…

What Does The AV Unity Club Do?

Abbreviated Overview of Historical and Current Projects 1920’s - Promoted the extension of the highway from Navarro to the mouth of the river. 1930’s - Sponsored Well-Baby Clinics 1934 – Began assisting students studying for…

David Harris (1946-2023): Good Guy

In an obit published on February 7, 2023, The New York Times called David Harris “an unlikely avatar of the antiwar movement.” That’s a ridiculous statement. Harris was as likely an avatar as anyone else…

Mendocino County Today: Saturday, Feb. 25, 2023

Between Storms | 101 Trees | Snow Stories | Public Safety | Snow Memories | Disgraceful Trail | Regina Heights | Covelo Fire | Arena Meeting | Mendocino Cafe | Grange Pancakes | Water Projects | Widening One | Dubious Items | Snow Vines | Ed Notes | Bebop Sundae | Art Exhibit | Willits Welcome | Blind Budget | LA Weird | Snow Reverie | Thatcher Hotel | You're Fired | SNWMF 2023 | Weed Money | Model Citizen | Lumberjack Competition | Parkour | City People | Look Not | Motel Scuffle | Ten Corporations | 1877 Trip | Yesterday's Catch | Avedon Pictures | Near Youtube | Ticket Squint | Mystic Madcap | Ridiculous Evening | Christmas Dinner | Marco Radio | Vegetarians | Orange Fixation | Hawg Stye | Rainmakers | Gift Weapons | Ukraine | Divert Attention | Gray Owl

Super Drought Super Bowl: The Goddess Sings

The land was parched, its people too. The rivers that had raged through the Nation’s once-wild Southwestern desert shrank in their canyons. Vast man-made lakes shriveled to puddles behind massive dams, cathedrals of leisure, irrigation…

A Day Home From School With Burt Bacharach And My Mom

Parts of the day are as clear as the lines on my face. Other aspects are more obscure and faded, harder to access across the decades. And many years have passed since that day in…

Mendocino County Today: Friday, Feb. 24, 2023

Snowfall | Arctic Air | Road Closures | Brooktrails | Yorkville Bus | Terriers | Travel Caution | Snow Photos | Food Loss | Duck Row | Forty Oaks | No Quiz | Arena Lighthouse | Tom Notti | Log Truck | Wildflower Walk | Timmy Guilty | Broadband Bill | Cook Caught | New Doc | Kimberlin Talk | Angela's Ancestors | Yesterday's Catch | Hail Mary | Guess Who | L.A. Woman | LSD Album | Tell Tale | Bugs Influencer | Emma Upgard | Thoughts & Prayers | Men | 1890 Wedding | Ukraine | Girl Commandos

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