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Posts published in August 2023

Valley People (August 9, 2023)

THE ABOVE photo was posted on Facebook by Denise Brendlin who wondered, "Is this the same Charles Davis we went to school with [in Boonville]." NO, the NBA Charles Davis is 6'7". The Boonville Charles…

Mendocino County Today: Tuesday, August 8, 2023

Temperate | Willits Overpass | Diversion Proposal | Navarro Point | Financial Oversight | Star Thistlers | Board Vacancy | Grapefruit Juice | AVUSD News | Double Zinnia | Shields Comments | Poacher Sentenced | Thoroughbred Racing | THP Ruling | Senior Thanks | Jail Suicide | Kristofferson Ranch | Balance Class | Bandage Tin | Ed Notes | Roadside Rocks | Moral Midgets | Life Lessons | Carolina Carbuncle | AV Museum | Public Hearing | Healthy Yards | Mobility Meeting | Gardens Music | Rugged Coastline | Brewery Music | Renaissance Jimi | Obon Festival | Tom Bell | Yesterday's Catch | Ukraine | Registry Bill | Big Oil | Hand Washers | Unpatriotic Losers | Linebacker Nitschke | Normies Awake | Flintstones | Cross & Cory | Hank Williams | Hinckle Speaks | Burt & Deb

Eileen Pronsolino on the History of Wine in Anderson Valley

The Anderson Valley Historical Society has been presenting a series of talks to the public about different aspects of Anderson Valley history.  Eileen Pronsolino recently gave a wonderful talk on the early years of winegrowing…

The Chronicle/Examiner Newspaper Wars

In 1960 daily journalism was still a competitive enterprise in San Francisco. The Chronicle and the Examiner were slugging it out for the city’s breakfast table readership and a good time was being had by…

Mendocino County Today: Monday, August 7, 2023

Near Normal | Remembering Paul | Chewbacca/Leia | CIF Resolution | O'Bidens | Hoophouse Permits | Trump Tower | Ukiah Graffiti | Apache Prisoners | Cultural Moron | Mogambo | If I Die | Frostie Sign | Safety Wall | Shields Updates | Lamarr/Stewart | Homeless Facts | Birth Certificate | Soccer Field | Ed Notes | Fund Sierra | Honest Realtors | Yesterday's Catch | Capitalism Road | Shooting Judge | Dog Parks | SF Postcards | Protest This | My Cousin | Pollution Test | Donald Tarbaby | Chet Helms | Baptist Biz | Elvis Spotting | Ukraine | Tried Adult | The International | Man Buns | Small Circle | Gross

Water, Water Everywhere (But Here…)

With the Mendocino Unified School District (MUSD) assuming authority for Mendocino City Community Services District’s (MCCSD) $5 million, publicly funded water supply and storage project, a project initiated by MCCSD in 2021 to meet Mendocino’s…

The Sixties [May 1998]

For a while it looked as though the Sixties had been captured by the enemy, its history decorously re-edited by people like Todd Gitlin. Anyone who wants to get a sense of the real thing…

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