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Posts published in July 2023

A Visit to the California State Fair

The State Fair in Sacramento began on July 14th and will run through the 30th. As lovers of any fair we can find, we were…

Mendocino County Today: Thursday, July 27, 2023

Seasonable | Riverside Sign | Body Found | Miles Oswald(s) | Earthian | Preschool Openings | Improve Procedure | Suba Spotting | AVCSD Minutes | Suzi's Tower | Conservation Ethic | Branscomb Store | County Notes | Thanks Jack | Cut Offs | Ed Notes | Raising Animals | Willits Art | Mockel Pledge | Thistle Pods | Roofing Permit | Yesterday's Catch | Drug Problems | Wealth Exodus | Hunter Plea | Invisible Man | Barbie Faludi | No Escape | Dem Downfall | Money Influence | Sinéad O’Connor | Ukraine | Why Hot | Boiling Point | Rewilding

County Notes: Supes To Compound Their Errors

Item 4b) on next Tuesday’s Board of Supervisors Agenda is described as “Discussion and Possible Action Including Direction to Staff to Develop a Contingency Plan…

Valley People (July 27, 2023)

BILLY & WANDA OWENS of Boonville are celebrating their 60th Wedding Anniversary. Married in Reno, Nevada, on August 2, 1953, the popular local couple has…

Mendocino County Today: Wednesday, July 26, 2023

Sunny | Snipe Sailing | AVUSD News | County Briefs | Goll Gull | Ed Notes | Watertower Watercolor | 128 Cyclists | Taming Colson | Angelica | Obon Festival | Covelo 1930 | Tracking Blakesley | Driftwood | Brovarney Book | Coming Home | London Visit | Yesterday's Catch | Air-Conditioned Bus | Dam | Ouch | Ball Turret | Returned Letter | Time | Robert/Wookie | Undocumented Immigrants | Mexican Border | Anti-Zionist | Screamin' Jay | Barbie v Ken | Lust Ledge | Bravo Jordan | Destination Addiction | Human Relations | Homer Table | Ukraine | Audi Workers | Military Spending | Fletcher/Forman | Negotiation Manipulators | X Painting

Letters (July 26, 2023)

Forty years ago, a pot bust could cost you your property and your freedom. But in those days, hardcore growers were few and far between.…

Off the Record (July 26, 2023)

JIM SHIELDS of the Mendocino County Observer out of Laytonville is at ground zero. He described the ugly July 8th episode this way:  A large…

Mendocino County Today: Tuesday, July 25, 2023

Seasonable Temps | Jughandle Beach | Jorge Medina | Truck Thief | AV Fundraiser | Dusky Sky | Should Mo | Food Bank | Candidate Cline | Elk BBQ | Headlands History | River Log | Festival Photos | Night Out | Ed Notes | Village Board | Homeless Funding | Wandering Peacocks | Angioplasty Drama | Bunyan Days | Winery Settlement | Yesterday's Catch | Chef'Store | Public Notice | Tried That | London Park | Panther News | NYT Hate | Road Fork | Working Stiff | Robert Gottlieb | Purple Hour | Try This | Mainstream Extreme | Gary Webb | Ukraine | Phone Boothing

Affirmative Action & Me

In the late 1980s I felt guilty about using an old boys’ network to secure a teaching position at Sonoma State University (SSU), a branch…

Live! Laugh! Love!

Live! Laugh! Love! has been the constellation navigation Big Dipper guide to my carefree journey through life.  Nothing but severe diarrhea touches me so deeply…

Catholic Segregation

It is axiomaticaily true that the Church of Rome moves slowly. But it has been on this earth almost 2,000 years, and it has yet…

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