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Posts published in August 2023

Letters (August 17, 2023)

I tend to agree with John Pinches regarding the idea of a way to use the right of way through the Eel River Canyon to allow the public to access this marvelous stretch of almost wilderness in Northern California…

Mendocino County Today: Wednesday, August 16, 2023

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Off the Record (August 16, 2023)

THE BEAST OF BOONVILLE VS THE GREEN HAIRS Dear Voter Readers,  The League of Women Voters has not taken a position on this issue, but the following event may be of interest to you: Change…

Valley People (August 16, 2023)

AV FIRE on the local haze/smoke: Where's the smoke coming from? According to www.airnow.gov fires in Alaska, Canada, Oregon, and the Southwest are contributing to smoky skies all across North America. We've had a few concerned…

Mendocino County Today: Tuesday, August 15, 2023

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Killed Without Dying

Late on a sun-baked October afternoon in 1995, an attractive, 60-ish woman named Jodine Lesieur drove home after a long day cutting hair in her busy Laytonville barber shop. She turned west at the CDF…

Bali

And then there’s Bali, a name of guaranteed glamour, known to all. Before the Second World War, I had heard of incomparable Bali from aristocrats of travel—those who could pay for the expensive journey— and…

Discoveries On 8,000 Miles Of Back Roads

After three weeks on the road, 3,000+ miles by rail on AMTRAK and 4,996 driven in a rental car what did we learn wandering around Americas in mid-summer? It’s green, it rains, and there is…

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