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Posts published in April 2023

Valley People (April 26, 2023)

FUNDRAISER FOR ANA CARRILLO LAST SATURDAY, April 22th, a well-attended fundraiser was held at the Philo Grange for local mother and grandmother Ana María Carrillo who was recently diagnosed with stage 4 terminal uterine cancer.…

Mendocino County Today: Tuesday, April 25, 2023

Warming | Ukiah Valley | Pebbles 101 | Insect Repellents | Board Appalling | Albion Bridge | Carol Brown | Brewery Music | Oboe Concert | Unity Club | WoodCharles | Music Books | Choir Concerts | Variety Show | Dog Commentary | Darkroom Course | Huntington Beach | Ed Notes | What's Happening | Lucky Bugs | Expensive Gift | Vacation Rentals | Yesterday's Catch | Retardant Pollution | Oakland Commons | Gadfly | Cat Healing | Marin City | Jack Packed | No Guns | Not Again | Dating 2023 | Delaware Joe | Gas Lines | Big Lies | Edible Flowers | Reform Needed | Schoolday | Ukraine | Survival | Bashful Alley

Fire Resiliency Field Trip

This past Saturday I joined a group of local folks to tour a property on the Nash Ranch to learn about the work that had been done for fire resiliency.  The property has been under…

Bach Blows

For at least as long as people have talked about the weather, they have made music about it—from rain dances to pastoral symphonies, from the paleolithic powwows to Prince’s Purple Rain. Even if the climate’s…

Catholic Reform School

My Catholic education taught me never to trust a priest under or over 30. They became quite vicious if anyone threatened their sense of authority or in any way profaned their pride, which I was…

Mendocino County Today: Monday, April 24, 2023

Mostly Sunny | Buds | Jamie Missing | Schat's Day | Dog Attack | Blossoms | McGourty Annotated | Little League | Boys & Girls | Garden Coach | Dirt Smell | MCHCD Board | Bible Question | Ghost Gun | Ed Notes | UkiaHaiku Festival | Boontling Classic | Yesterday's Catch | Gellhorn Bio | John Muir | Shasta Tension | Hangmen | Warriors Win | Losing It | Playing God | Baking Bread | Remember California | Debunker Carlson | Republicans | Happier | Idiotic Lifestyle | Mauermanns | Biden Corruption | Poverty | Candidate Kirn | Aging | Avant-Garde | Saltaire | Political Paralysis | Lap Cat | No Nukes | Coal Miners | Ukraine | The Road | Old Woman

Working The Mare Island Nukes

In 1980 a mutual friend put me in touch with Gerry Stone, a Mare Island shipyard worker who had seen some things he thought the public ought to know about. I was then a hustling…

AV Variety Show: Bring it On!

The Anderson Valley Variety Show is always full of surprises. The most surprising act I remember involved a man named Rudy Knoop cooking soy beans on a Coleman stove live onstage. He had an assistant…

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