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Posts published in February 2023

County Notes: ‘Veg-Mod Hell’

The Board of Supervisors spent most of their Tuesday afternoon meeting discussing the County's extremely restrictive rules about “tree removal,” aka “vegetation modification,” for pot…

Letters (February 16, 2023)

As a longtime Northern California journalist and a former member of the Society of Professional Journalists, I was dismayed to read of the pending Madison award to attorney Paul Nicholas Boylan…

Mendocino County Today: Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2023

Dry Cold | Snowfall | Skatepark Meeting | No Fun | Adventist Rumor | Gualala Somber | Debra Keipp | 1930 Kids | School Needs | Tahja Talk | Gualala Mill | Lighthouse Tour | Fresnel Lens | Ukiah Win | Daffodils | CalFresh Benefit | Cabin Addition | Tiny Homes | 1913 Kids | Berryessa Manager | Heartwood | Marriage Advice | Yesterday's Catch | Fire Danger | Venison | Superbowling | Goosebumps | Gun Laws | Air Show | Dirty Laundry | Suisun Bay | Demon Copperhead | Arnold Rogers | Prostate Cancer | Spy Devices | Ukraine | Weather Balloon | Poppy View

Off the Record (February 15, 2023)

DISNEY seems to have abandoned Mickey and Minnie. The mammoth film conglomerate is now featuring a new cartoon series that features black children rapping about…

Valley People (February 15, 2023)

HELP ALISHA & JOHN ORNBAUN Alisha and John Ornbaun and their family lost their home and belongings in a fire this week. Alisha is an…

Mendocino County Today: Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2023

Rain/Snow | Mustard Bloom | Gualala Fire | Frase Arrested | Dance Party | David Harris | Clow Painting | AV Housing | Neave Trio | Mendocino Headlands | Downtown Ukiah | Streetlights | Ed Notes | Valentine's Day | Police Reports | Table Mate | Wanted Poster | Crush Report | Yesterday's Catch | NYT Tips | Wild Game | EV Push | Normal/Crazy | Money-God | Anti-Balloon | Fortywhiners | Setting Chokers | Stupor Bowl | Cleaners | NFL Rigged | Cupid Backup | Unsafe Trains | F-22 | Death Merchants | Freak | Ukraine | Rides Cancelled | Valentine | Mending Hearts

AutoInterview with The Musical Patriot

I’ll be back in Indiana a month from now to play an organ recital devoted entirely to Handel’s music. The performance will be Sunday, March…

When Giants Strode The Newsroom

There’s hardly such a thing as an old journalist who doesn’t miss the golden era of newspapers and the glamour that went with it.  In…

Mendocino County Today: Monday, Feb. 13, 2023

North Wind | Skatepark Meeting | Third Place | RV Council | Wave Up | Fire Staffing | Talmage Sky | Super Bowl | Planted Trees | Beautiful Ukiah | Hendy Trail | Valentine Outreach | Stacked Modic | Miller Hiatus | Yesterday's Catch | Little Luck | Sports Drink | Housing Discrimination | Viva! | Black-on-Black | Outdoor Gamer | Scranton Joe | Usal Sunset | Suicide Hotline | Plastics | Neutering Boars | Pinocchio | Paint Jobs | Scary Shadows | Left-Right Coalition | Nursery Rhyme | Listen | Yalta | Serious Ballooning | Frankentrim | Ukraine | 1939 Menu

My Travels With Wes, Part IV

Wes and my Navarro road trip recounted in last week's Advertiser continued south, stopping next at the Floodgate shopping mall Rock Stop store.  The house across the…

Glad Rags & Gun Bags

Interesting start of the week on Monday, Jan. 30th when in the afternoon someone dropped off a tool bag with me that didn’t have any…

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