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Posts published in June 2023

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…

Mendocino County Today: Tuesday, June 27, 2023

Cloudy | California Buckeye | AVUSD News | Bull Rider | Peachland Farmstand | New Officers | Comptche Upholstery | Watertower Art | Ed Notes | AVA Cats | Banana Slugs | Bragg Baseballers | Mockel Rumor | Yesterday's Catch | Doom Loop | Gloomiest Cities | Flags/Firearms | Front Porches | Quiet Parts | The Lottery | Holy Petrol | Corporate Crime | Giant Sequoia | Coup Coo | Old Age | Ukraine | Milk Thistle

The Age of Bridges

There is “town vomit” on the streets of Elsinore (Helsingor in Danish), a mere cobblestone’s throw from Hamlet’s castle. Depending on your temperament the stench might evoke either a medieval morosity or a renaissance joie…

Sheriff Byrnes Makes Daring Double Capture

Fort Bragg Chronicle, November 25, 1913 — Like a chapter from the “Old Sleuth” series of dime thrillers or a page from the history of “Doc” Standley, Mendocino County's redoubtable fighting sheriff, reads the story…

When Native Met City Lights

Five days after Ishi’s arrival in Yuba City Kroeber took him out for a Sunday drive through the city. Their initial destination was the ocean, about which Ishi had heard. He had already crossed the…

Mendocino County Today: Monday, June 26, 2023

Coastal Clouds | Savannah Logan | Mustard Bloom | Blowing Public Money | Dragonfly | Save Pillsbury | Frontier Days | Ed Notes | Leaves | Bragg Compensation | Arena Meeting | PA Lighthouse | IRS Notice | Yesterday's Catch | Quit Drinking | Eternal Question | Three Shots | Selflessness | Y U | LatinX | Gav's Veto | Thank Jesus | West Candidacy | Just Asking | Ukraine | Hitchhikers | Russia | Freaks | Chet Baker | Black Oystercatchers

Win Friends, Influence People

One of the things Mendocino County taught me was the value of being a conscience-free liar when useful and/or profitable. People have been coming to Mendotopia for years and decades, and a fair percentage of…

Dan Ellsberg & The Bioneers

Daniel Ellsberg, who recently announced that he has pancreatic cancer and doesn’t have much longer to live, sent out an email in which he wrote, “It is long past time--but not too late!--for the world's…

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