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Posts published in June 2023

Mendocino County Today: Friday, June 30, 2023

Interior Heat | Noyo Pond | Fireworks Shows | Arena Weekend | AV Scene | Nesting Season | Funeral Fund | Summer Biking | Farm Stands | Swehla Selected | Water Forum | Another Hospital | Last Sunlight | Ed Notes | ALRFD BBQ | Moderate Us | MAC Director | It's Friday | Keep Listserv | Sport Auto | Buried Treasure | Arena Shoreline | Name Change | Yesterday's Catch | Laytonville Skatepark | 1928 Sterling | MyCitations | Beauty Decision | Reasonable People | Tequila Substitute | Confederate Flag | Viva War | Private Sign | Farmworker Rights | Easy Friend | Bar Question | Slam Job | Conversation | Ukraine | Solitude

Comments On The Uptick Of Weed Production

In last week’s column I wrote a short item about weed and water, and also gave a longer report on my Saturday KPFN program, “This & That.” Those reports generated a number of responses from…

The New Jerusalem

The hippies grew up in my backyard. I did not find them good neighbors. It was nothing personal. I thought it terrific, in the early days of the Haight-Ashbury, that love children could put a…

Mendocino County Today: Thursday, June 29, 2023

Interior Heating | Quinn Greene | Lilies | Ground Breaking | River Algae | Pelicans | Mendo Fireworks | City Gate | AV Football/Cheer | Boonquiz | Homeland Security | Collecting Taxes | Boonbarn | Elk BBQ | Paul Dolan | Boonset | Seeking Roommate | Mental Flyer | Ed Notes | Dogaballoo | Adelman Sentenced | Yesterday's Catch | Southern Monuments | Barking | Social Oppression | Video Magazine | Patriotism | You Men | Tit Tat | Prigozhin's March | Sharked | Ukraine | Burned Out | America 2023 | Apes | Iraq Invaders

Mendo Management In Turmoil; Supes Do Nothing

Back in the Carmel Angelo Era, management staffers who presented a problem for the peevish CEO were summarily given the heave-ho on the spot and nobody dared comment about it in open session. The target…

Letters (June 29, 2023)

It’s Sunday evening and I’m sitting here with a deep pain in my heart having just heard of a young woman who died beside her car in downtown Boonville…

Mendocino County Today: Wednesday, June 28, 2023

Warming Begins | Paul Dolan | Ed Notes | Cumulonimbus | Illegal Cultivation | Salmon BBQ | GJ Report | Manchester Dunes | Clueless MCHCD | Parade Route | Dam Removal | Book Juggler | 1906 Wedding | Name Petitions | DJ Sister | Skatepark Fundraiser | Yesterday's Catch | Money Worms | Building Blahs | Gun Laws | Cat Training | Paper Routes | Cocktail D'Amour | U.S. Congress | Ukraine | Underwear Salesman | Texas Heat | Crow Bar | Earth Wobble

Off the Record (June 28, 2023)

AS A NEWSPAPER PERSON, I’m on the receiving end of a lot of insults. The insults don’t bother me. In fact, I enjoy them if they’re creatively abusive. But the cliches get to me. “Yellow…

Valley People (June 28, 2023)

SARAH SUMMIT: “I just wanted to let everyone know that, although I cannot respond to all of your messages, texts and comments. I am reading them and I appreciate all of the love. Please continue…

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