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Posts published in April 2023

Mendocino County Today: Wednesday, April 12, 2023

Breezy | Daffodils | Farm Gig | Bridge Hanging | Caspar Inn | Skyhawk Radio | Highway Fatalities | Nor'Easter | Firewood Permits | Willits Sky | Plant Sale | Another Bragg | Help Joe | Housing Costs | Russian Gulch | Guitars/Mariachis | Boonquiz | Variety Show | Salute | Drug War | Bud Light | Gomes Judgement | Wash Hands | Ed Notes | Crumb Cover | Chambers Erupt | Yesterday's Catch | Critical Hari | Trump Fatigue | Tat Game | Arguing | Hollow Earth | Mental Crises | Money Needed | Killing Zapata | Capitalism Gangster | Big Prizefight | Honoring Ellsberg | Pinky Power | Senior Impressions | Cat Luck | Ukraine | Ominous Opponent

Off the Record (April 12, 2023)

DANILLA SANDS was on the Fort Bragg gun hoax case last week: The gun scare at Fort Bragg High School today, Wednesday, April 3rd was a prank called “swatting.” Take it away, Danilla:  “There have…

Valley People (April 12, 2023)

BILL HOLCOMB PRESENTS “Anderson Valley Memories” on April 16, the second AV Historical Society Valley Chat Meet us in the Rose Room just next to the Little Red Schoolhouse Museum on Anderson Valley Way on…

Mendocino County Today: Tuesday, April 11, 2023

Pleasant | Pastoral | Spring Sprung | Napkin Art | Local Tragedies | Joan Spears | Field Trip | Good Company | Pomo Seaweed | Recent History | Albion Mill | Planning Agenda | Allowable Colors | AVA Dehydrator | Ed Notes | Windsor Hotel | Nature Walk | Hendy Meadow | Retirement Board | Yesterday's Catch | Bank Shooter | SNAP Decision | Deviled Egg | FBI Debacle | Feral Rabbits | Covid Quiz | Loose Gravel | Marin ODs | Scarecrone | Bioneering | California Street | Beaconeering | Hard Life | Congressional Investigation | Short Takes | Nervous Hiatus | Prole Transit | The Arts | Class War | Frances Perkins

1455 Market Street

This is a note to John King, who has the architecture beat for the SF Chronicle. I sent him this note last week after he wrote a piece about 1455 Market Street:  In 1996, when…

Lonely? Take A Hike!

“Only the lonely know the way I feel tonight,” Roy Orbison sang on his hit single that has never gone out of style. In the greater San Francisco Bay Area, as in many other parts…

Mendocino County Today: Monday, April 10, 2023

Warm | Still Missing | Ann Carr | Goldfinch | Stolen Vehicle | Pot Hole | Pelicans | Cold Winter | Juan Alarcon | MCHCD Deceits | Poison Oak | AVUSD News | Covelo Event | Forest Club | Philo Regatta | Co-op Art | Yesterday's Catch | Top Selection | Author Event | Flea Bitten | Bucket List | Against Extremism | War Vet | Mortal Flower | Outdoor Seatbelt | SF Burning | Stormy Irony | Defund FBI | Young Vincent | RFK Priority | Unrequited Love | Banana Bread | Ukraine | Warbucks | Gun Check | Protecting Children | Commissioner Kavanagh | Beer Safe | Putin Context | Precious Time | Carbon Criminals | Flat Tire

As He Lay Dying

They gathered on a cold Monday in a garden area at a Ukiah retirement home to say hello to John Duffy, and goodbye. Duffy, who went by the name “Duffy,” had been turned loose following…

Ash Wednesday (2003)

I’d been to Mexico eight, maybe nine times, not counting border towns; spots like Puerto Vallarta, Manzanillo, Zihuatenejo, Oaxaca, and Cancun. I had seen the sprawling Federal District, Ciudad de Mexico, itself, only once, for…

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