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Posts published in July 2023

Wayne McGimsey Remembers (March, 1998)

Wayne McGimsey takes a quick but wistful look out the large picture window of his Boonville house, strategically located between Anderson Valley Market and Lauren’s…

Mendocino County Today: Friday, July 14, 2023

Hot Weekend | Bridge Swimmers | Holiday Fatalities | Pull Over | Bragg Matters | Leviticus Tat | Car Removal | Defensible Space | Corner Mural | Calfire Trails | Glyphosate Effects | Declawed Cats | Pendulum Swing | Navarro Estuary | Gaska Note | Rare Photo | OneTaste Sues | Rope Swing | Meeting Max | Yesterday's Catch | Committee Definition | Available Again | Moses Selfie | Critical Election | Topless Wine | Got Away | Zodiac Documentary | Gleaning | Millionaire Gorilla | Pizza Slicing | Dark Time | Milan Kundera | Ukraine | Space Images

Crime & No Punishment

Recently a 44-year-old Laytonville man with a history of multiple police “contacts” was busted down in Brooktrails on several charges. Here’s the story: He’s someone…

Weird Days At Black Rock

When you drive into the Owens Valley from the south, on your left to the west is the most magnificent mountain range in the Sierra…

The Cars That Were

Cadillac, “American Standard for the World,” may be making a mistake in its slick and glossy magazine ads. In the foreground we see the latest…

Mendocino County Today: Thursday, July 13, 2023

Sunny | Fox | Abandoned Bus | Trail Talk | Out Of Order | Water Proposal | Vultures | County Code | Misleading Numbers | Boonquiz | Sunset | AI Lookouts | Photo ID | Ed Notes | Peacock | Summer Music | Redwood Time | Neely Art | Yesterday's Catch | Elite Association | Touched | Neighborhood Walk | Housing Costs | Kick Off | News Rating | Manufactured Doubt | Greenhouse Gassing | Toxic Love | Naturists | Rejoin Consciousness | About Face | Sexual Ignorance | Ukraine | Fraction Man | YMCA

Is Mendo Imploding?

Watching the Board of Supervisors’ blasé attitude toward the County’s core function of property tax collection it’s hard to escape the sense that Mendo is…

Play Ball In A Dystopian Hellscape

Saturday, July 8 — It was “Hello Kitty” day at the bayfront ballpark. The meaning of that seemed unclear to most attendees other than some very…

Letters (July 13, 2023)

My reason for writing this letter is that in the summer of 1962 Dr. Werra saved my life and was the reason I was not paralyzed by my injury…

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