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Posts published in June 2023

Budget Put To Bed; Weed’s Back In The Ground

At their annual budget hearing on June 6, the Board of Supes unanimously ok’d the 2023-24 budget mostly by utilizing over $7 million in one-time funds. Ted Williams, of the Coast’s 5th District, capsulized this…

The Torment of Ted Kaczynski ‘62

“They took a clean-cut kid and made a killer out of him, that’s what they did.” –B.D. As atheists and intellectuals, Theodore and Wanda Kaczynski were atypical among second-generation Polish-Americans who had been raised Roman…

Mendocino County Today: Thursday, June 22, 2023

Cloudy Skies | Caspar Rose | Ed Notes | Mobile Adoption | Layoffs Suggested | Shots Fired | Dump Not | Lighthouse Tours | Where's This? | Transportation Study | Yesterday's Catch | Lost Sub | White Rock | Trading Away | Gus Newport | Radical Homebody | Wolverine Return | Durham Questions | Ducky Down | Ukraine | Class Cancelled | Vonnegut Story | Willits Mural

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…

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