It’s a hot quiet weekday morning in Falls City, Oregon, which is more of a town than a city, at least by the standards of a northern Californian who has lived in Santa Rosa and…
Posts published in August 2023
San Francisco, to me, is like a house of cards: postcards in glowing colors stacked against the hills that march from the Bay on one side to the Pacific Ocean on the other. The real…
ABOVE NORMAL TEMPERATURES will continue into the middle of the week. Isolated, mostly dry thunderstorms are possible across portions of the interior early this week, with the best chances tomorrow and Tuesday. (NWS) STEPHEN DUNLAP…
To the surprise of Ukiah locals, an iconic neon Mr. Frostie sign that hung for decades along South State Street in Ukiah is refurbished and now on display but no longer in the Ukiah Valley.…
The Sonoma County Fair’s “Jurassic Jubilee” is underway. It began on August 3 and will run until the 13th at the Fairgrounds in Santa Rosa. Friday August 4th was Senior Day so the entrance fee…
ABOVE NORMAL TEMPERATURES will return this weekend and continue into the middle of next week. Isolated, mostly dry thunderstorms are possible across portions of the interior this weekend and into early next week, with the…
One of the biggest mistakes Ukiah makes, and has been making for decades, is allowing graffiti to deface streets and buildings. It’s as if our leaders appreciate graffiti, admire the stuff, encourage young vandals to…
What does Barbie sound like? The original doll’s blonde hair, pointed toes and pointed breasts define her look, but her voice was, until the sing-song-then-sadistic vocals of Jodi Benson in Toy Story 3 of 2010…
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