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Posts published in August 2023

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…

What Bores Whom?

In 1971, I made my fifth journey through Israel; purpose of journey, a book that never jelled. Tired of being serious and taking notes, I went to Eilath to swim. Outside Eilath, on the bare…

Mendocino County Today: Sunday, August 6, 2023

Hot Interior | Lake Emily | FFA Update | Pikachu | Dam Disagreement | Young Mancher | RV Weed | Pet Pups | Finance Discussed | Mobile ATM | Fiduciary Responsibility | Filbey Art | PG&E Battle | AV Events | Panther Volleyball | Desperate Times | Assemblyman & Wife | Meiggsville | Night Monster | Yesterday's Catch | Embodied | Not Robbery | Big Jackpot | Wolf Sculpture | Marco Radio | Which California | Sequoias | Taqueria Man | Wall Streeters | Falls City | Decoined | More Foolish | Prisoners Exercising | Umbrella Valet | Slitting Throats | Ukraine | Muscle Beach | Chuck Luck

Beyond the Garden Gate

One of my first memories is of a huge Victorian on McAllister Street near Fillmore in San Francisco where my family lived in 1944. The rambling old structure, which I believe had survived the Great…

Branch Rickey as Anti-Hero

In response to our item about Major League Baseball’s hypocritical “homage” to the Negro Leagues, John Woodford – an AVA reader whose resume includes Times correspondent and editor of Muhammad Speaks – sent along an…

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