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Posts published in June 2023

County Notes: The Mockel Debacle

(Mockel who? Mockel being shoved down our throats by the Democrat's Northcoast machine.) Last month, at the time I filed my Brown Act complaint to ferret out the Supervisors’ unanimous, simultaneous endorsement of recently declared…

Letters (June 22, 2023)

How many of us have “urgent” health issues that do not remotely suggest the need for an E.R. visit, but end up there because of no urgent care.…

Mendocino County Today: Wednesday, June 21, 2023

Summer Solstice | Orr Springs | Growing Season | Cactus Garden | Benefit Concert | County Employees | Manzanita | Shattuck Says | Ed Notes | Log Chute | Ground Breaking | Boonquiz | Geriatric Newspapermen | Housing Workshop | Yesterday's Catch | Multivitamin Taken | Oak Knoll | Counterculture Culture | Sir Mick | Train Songs | Eye Smiler | Relationship Problems | Dogshit Way | Sir Ian | Strange Days | Class Reunion | Assange Extradition | Ukraine | Station Pigeon | Writing Life | Farmer Explosive

Off the Record (June 21, 2023)

THE REPORTS of the man washed away at the foot of the Mendocino Village bluffs over the weekend, later identified as Quinn Greene of Mendocino, reminded us of this horrifying event in the same place…

Valley People (June 21, 2023)

THE ANDERSON VALLEY HISTORICAL SOCIETY board will be hosting a festive gathering at the Little Red School House Museum on Sunday, July 9, 1:00 to 4:00 pm. This year we are pleased to have Eileen…

Mendocino County Today: Tuesday, June 20, 2023

Another Cool One | Peacock | Savannah Logan | Seaside Daisies | Clinic Transportation | Campus Issues | Liberty Threatened | Ed Notes | Arena Parade | Noyo Webcam | Yesterday's Catch | Covid Heroes | Movies Bombing | Celebrating Juneteenth | Dirt Strap | Valley Girling | Cormac Connection | Saving Capitalism | Other Side | Self COINTELPRO | 1960s | Berlusconi's Funeral | Overshadowed Siblings | Ukraine | Broken Places | California Mussel | England 1819 | Reading Room

Some Kids Don’t Want To Leave Their Hometown

At a high school graduation one year, I was talking with a teacher about the kids who don’t want to move away. While so many of their classmates can’t wait to leave, some kids are…

No Gold In These Here Hills

To the average browser looking at a shelf of used books on Western Americana at Grassroots Books in Reno it wasn’t much. A weathered old publication called California Journal of Mines and Geology, Volume 49,…

California Water Deficits

In California, when the issue is water, the ironies seem to string out in seamless succession. Bill Warne, the man who built the California Water Project, was in government service nearly all his life, and…

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