Mendocino County bought the abandoned nursing home on Whitmore Lane south of Ukiah in 2020 using federal covid money in the early stages of the pandemic to use as a quarantine building for people who…
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One of the highlights of my mother’s life was when she saw Queen Elizabeth serenely glide by in her royal carriage, gloved hand awave, in the heart of London. I was standing right next to…
One of the great regrets of my life is that I never had the chance to meet Thomas Pynchon back when he was living incognito in the Anderson Valley in 1990…
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GLENN, WE HARDLY KNEW YE Subject: Press release Mendocino County 1st District Supervisor Glenn McGourty has announced that he is not running for a second term on the Board of Supervisors in 2024. “After 35…
SAD NEWS FROM SAFFRON FRASER: I guess the cat's out of the bag for the most part. Scott posted an announcement on his page. So. Instead of you all seeing ambiguous posts from me here,…
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This is not a San Francisco gloom and doom story. There have been too many of them lately. San Franciscans feel sorry for themselves and wallow in despair. You might call this a health and…
The news of the “wild man of Oroville” went out on the wire. On August 30, 1911, the San Francisco Examiner carried a short piece titled “Last Lost Indian.” Alfred Kroeber read the report. His…