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Posts published in October 2023

Mendocino County Today: Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2023

Showers | Mendocino Presbyterian | Couple Fires | Solar Eclipse | Candidate Forum | On Beck | Baroque Repertoire | Navarro Estuary | Forester Responds | Vartnaw Reading | Land Use | Rennie Toontown | Speed Bumps | Pig Roast | Certified B | Pudding Creek | Ed Notes | Yesterday's Catch | Animal Haiku | Pronounced Fit | Hot War | Haight Ashbury | Terrorists/Patriots | Idaho Gas | O No | Unlimited Support | That Way | Seek Peace | Shocking Map | Gaza | Orwell Update | Escalation Fear | Blue Angels | Uncharted Territory | Franken GOP | RFK Independent | Government Branches | Ukraine | Best Years

Summer’s Gone. Hope You’re Happy

All of you who’ve been complaining about the heat and the hot weather and the sweat and the high temperatures and how hard it is to fall asleep when temperatures are not even in the…

When China Was Communist (Part 2)

By the summer of 1980 the China of Mao Zedong's Communist Party was the result of 30 years of applied radical ideology. Every aspect of life had been relentlessly re-thought and restructured to conform to…

Mendocino County Today: Monday, Oct. 9, 2023

Wet | AVUSD News | Panther Football | Water Politics | Quoth Mazie | Rockport Point | Bookshop Events | Pig Roast | Women Readers | Chili Cook-Off | Westport Victorian | Get Joe | Ocean Light | Ed Notes | Eel Fork | Eugene Brown | Beacon Nostalgia | Yesterday's Catch | Immigrant Story | Pumpkin Prisoner | Marco Radio | Sophia Loren | Dear Diary | Fires Burning | Doomsday Kook | Robot QB | Eat You | Inevitable Outcome | Questions | Don't Say | Rules | Reactions | Lighthouse Bulbs | Gaza | Ukraine | Ultimate Achievement | Dealey Bread | Jack Ruby | Slam Transport | American Fascism | Stop Reading | Desiderata | Comic Book | Japanese Party | BBQ Ghoul

Montana Sojourn

Travel broadens one’s horizons (it also shrinks one’s wallet, but that is a discussion for another day). During the pandemic years, my travel was limited to car trips. However, broad acceptance of the Covid vaccine…

Plane Crash at the 1927 County Fair

Ed note: 96 years ago, the Apple Fair in Boonville was marked by the dual tragedies described in these articles from local newspapers. Many thinks to Debra Silva for finding them. Fort Bragg Advocate News,…

Mendocino County Today: Sunday, Oct. 8, 2023

Calma | Fog | AV Events | Coming Courthouse | Reeves Canyon | Historical Society | River Restoration | FFA Dinner | Recycled Water | Help Warren | Panther Football | Fowler Art | Philo Campground | Measure Q | No Wonder | Pet Rascal | Violent Valley | Round Valley | DMV Test | Ed Notes | KNYO Off | We Muktas | Incredibly Amazing | Cell Towers | Boonville Setting | 253 Grapes | Larry Parsons | Yesterday's Catch | Poverty Root | True State | Labor Wage | Revolutionary Moment | Swelce | Israel/Palestine | Near Gaza | AC Repairman | What's Next | Raisin' Cain | Ukraine | ? | Kid's Holiday | Had Enough

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