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Posts published in May 2023

Off the Record (May 24, 2023)

DIANE KEARNEY, aka TR FACTOR, has died at age 89, a month shy of her 90th birthday. Ms. Factor lived for about ten years on the upper Mendocino Coast, and was a regular contributor to…

Valley People (May 24, 2023)

THE UKIAH WOMAN killed last week in a single-vehicle crash near Navarro that also hospitalized the driver, Timothy Marino, was identified Tuesday as Christa Brodsky, 41 of Ukiah. She was the sole passenger in a…

Mendocino County Today: Tuesday, May 23, 2023

Breezy | Amphibious Aircraft | PV Project | Pill House | So Cool | Shelter Closing | Haschak Report | Boardwalk | Unity Club | Sunset | Planning Agenda | Dino Guilty | Walmart Shopping | Thirsty Grapes | Guthrie Show | Mendo Brickmaker | LOVE Coordinator | Navarro Nurseyman | Yesterday's Catch | Retire DiFi | Sponsor Jackets | Ed Notes | Grizzly Dreams | Griner Standing | NorCal Tranq | Red-Headed Nut | Facebook Friends | Strange Days | Everything Broken | Motivational | Crib Girls | Ukraine | Kreuzland | Mr. Z | Space Station

The Making of Sal ‘The Barber’ Maglie

Sal Maglie: Baseball’s Demon Barber by Judith Testa, Northern Illinois University Press, 2007; 463 pages. It took an art historian from a midwestern college to give Sal Maglie the biography he deserved. The subject seems…

Marie Helmey, The Last Of The Hot Lead Typesetters

Marie the mystery woman was so much the mystery woman it was hard to find out her last name, but it was Helmey, Marie Helmey, the older lady in the long black coat with a…

Mendocino County Today: Monday, May 22, 2023

Sunny | Lake Mendo | Earthquake | Navarro Dog | Patchen Journal | Ed Notes | Must Tell | Skatepark Joy | Phlebotomy Training | Heavy Logging | Sick Dog | Water Group | McGourty's Term | Yesterday's Catch | Gender BS | Thumbs Down | Colorful Houses | Latin Culture | Econ One | Silent Partner | NorCaro Issues | Yellow Journalism | Bridge Jumping | Janis | Quoting Orwell | Writer Fears | Dolphin Swim | Russian Myth | Scorcese Film | Stay Late | Look 1954 | Penny Thoughts | Banana Rotten | Covid Shaming | World View | Ukraine | Book Market | Witch Hunt

France Meets Anderson Valley: Arnaud & Floriane Weyrich

During a three hour mid-day meal at the Bewildered Pig last month Floriane and Arnaud Weyrich told me the tale of how they migrated to our Valley, raised a family, and upon retrospect found very…

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