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Posts published in May 2023

Mendocino County Today: Wednesday, May 3, 2023

Unsettled | Point Cabrillo | Widespread Outage | Boonquiz | Joseph Myers | Village Appreciation | Arena Volunteers | Grocery Outlet | Hop Pickers | Rivino Dispute | Redwood Marathon | McGourty Announcement | Supe Speculations | Record Snowpack | Drum Circle | Minnie Smith | Craig's Day | Clearlake | Killer Afro | Yesterday's Catch | Game 1 | Street Tacos | George Longland | Lily White | Floral Valley | PG&E Interview | End Near | Mutilation | Village Idiot | California Reparations | Vote Hinckle | Coates Interview | Bank Failures | FDIC Limit | Bill Curry | Ukraine | Just Cooking | Bellicose Management | All Puffy | Speak Up | James Baldwin

Off the Record (May 3, 2023)

JUST IN from Pebbles Trippet: “I’m living at Area 101 in Laytonville, my new home. Sold my land on the river. Plan is to go to Mexico June-July for stem cell procedure to I can…

Valley People (May 3, 2023)

ROB GIULIANI of Signal Ridge Road, Philo, died this week. He and his wife Lee Serrie were long-time fixtures on Signal Ridge. Rob and Lee were former tv producers from the Bay Area. We hope…

Mendocino County Today: Tuesday, May 2, 2023

Showers | Horizon Light | 3 Vandals | Urchin Culling | Arena Earthquake | Theater Classes | McGourty's Out | Farmers Markets | Community Choir | Ed Notes | Brewery Potluck | Indigenous Women | Lilac | Arena Housing | Haiku Festival | Opioid Grant | Purple Sky | Parrish Archives | Yesterday's Catch | Artist Albert | Hemingway's Miro | Armadillo Catching | Identify Registered | Potemkin Dinner | Moonshine Still | Ukraine | Pest Control | Mass Shootings | Trunk Arsenal | Hawaiian Bonefish | Immortality | Acknowledge Navy | Border Crisis | Mission Oil | Dust Storm | Enemy Within | Dummy Driving | Making/Doing | GOP Platform

The Swap: Butterflies For Ladybugs

We returned to Ukiah for a limited time but long enough for me to fret over my missing Swallowtail butterflies.  For the past 20 uninterrupted summers wife Trophy and I have been quietly thrilled at…

Sounding Out Renfield

In the movie business typecasting can be as much of a curse for composers as for actors. Marco Beltrami made his name in Hollywood with his score for Wes Craven’s satirical slasher movie Scream back…

Eyeball To Eyeball With The Jesuits

At various times during the checkered decade past (the 60s) I have been called licentious, a profligate, and adventurer, a sensationalist, a wastrel, a capitalist guerrilla, a boozer, a corporate wrecker, a degenerate, a wheeler-dealer,…

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