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Posts published in December 2023

Golden Days In Comptche

Nannie Escola, one of the first chroniclers of Mendocino Coast lore, left the Kelley House notebooks full of newspaper clippings and her handwritten notes about…

Food? Cooking!

I first tasted food in the crowded but livable Brooklyn neighborhood where my parents rented a small, dark one-bedroom apartment. My mother didn’t have to…

Mendocino County Today: Monday, Dec. 4, 2023

Chance Driz | Pelican Bluff | Healthcare Greed | Holiday Bazaar | Night Thieves | School Meeting | Prop Tax | AV Events | No Training | Willits Ranch | County Notes | Froh Show | Ed Notes | Raskin Book | Etiquette Guide | Darkroom Class | Jazz Concert | Chris McGlothlen | Noyo 1919 | Yesterday's Catch | Humboldt Independent | 1930s Abalone | Rate Hike | Miss Healdsburg | Niners Win | Walt Stack | Gray Squirrels | U.S. Healthcare | Got Rizz | This World | Pitcher | Shitweasels | Kissinger Legacy | Walker Hancock | Wandering Jew | Morning After

Anderson Valley’s Last Pot Bust

It was October of 1999 when California's Attorney General made national news by announcing that marijuana cops had racked up a record haul of marijuana…

The Cruise

The travel brochure promised happiness and a trip I’d never forget. That promise was more than fulfilled in August 1959 when my Grandmother asked me…

Chinatown, Our Chinatown [1950]

The biggest Chinatown outside of Asia. Where 30,000 people are crowded into a few blocks, so they can attract tourists and disease. Chinatown. Beloved indulgently…

Mendocino County Today: Sunday, Dec. 3, 2023

Showers | Classic Finals | Boat Parade | Glass Blowers | Recommended Play | Pet Monica | Lawyer Poaching | Clare's Matchbook | Cubbison/Eyster | Red Tagged | Grange Achievements | Eel River | Rejected Agents | Navarro Estuary | Montgomery Woods | Hell's Ticket | Noyo Sunbathers | Ed Notes | Halt Woodman | Gift Idea | Sportsmanship | Beer Porn | The Hub | Russian Gulch | Pomo News | Fay Lanphier | Old Days | Yesterday's Catch | Marco Radio | No Pants | Bottle Bill | Blonde Badger | Narcan Save | Polly | Censorship Statement | Heaviest Element | Burning Tires | Kissinger Crimes | OpenAI | My Right | Underdressed | American Venus

Senior Benefits: Low Income Housing

The HUD low-income senior housing complex in Garberville is a cute assortment of one bedroom cottages, between the hospital and the library, on the edge…

The ‘Joy Of Cooking’

A cookbook taught me the joy of cooking for others… When I graduated from college, a family member bought me some of her favorite kitchen…

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