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Posts published in May 2023

A Tale Of Two Windsors

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…

Letters (May 11, 2023)

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…

Mendocino County Today: Wednesday, May 10, 2023

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Off the Record (May 10, 2023)

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…

Valley People (May 10, 2023)

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.…

Mendocino County Today: Tuesday, May 9, 2023

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Yes! Water Aerobics at the Koret Rec Center

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…

Ishi Meets Kroeber

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…

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