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Posts published in January 2024
Louis Armstrong’s trumpet sighs and pleads in counterpoint with the airport announcements. The melody is barely audible but still unmistakable above the thunderous whisper of a thousand four-wheeled suitcases rolling across granite floors, the centripetal…
The sixties was the decade when the frightened cry of “Timber!” was everywhere in the unclean air of publishing. The flow of competitive daily newspapers dried up, and magazines great and small fell like the…
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Your local small town vet is different from a walk-in emergency clinic. Much like our own family doctors, general practice veterinarians have full schedules of appointments and procedures all day and need to prioritize existing…
“My story of the Palace Hotel is a love story — the first love of my life.” Born in Ukiah, on her mother’s side, Wendy Mae Thomas (née McCallum) goes back four generations in Ukiah…
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If Ukiah isn’t careful, and in recent years Ukiah has not been careful, her housing future will be bland boxes of anonymous buildings in big complexes where you’d never want to live. All over town…
CORRECTION: Patrick Ford was mistakenly listed in “Valley Deaths” for 2023 in our January 7 edition. Mr. Ford called last week to inform us that he is quite alive and well and living in Yorkville.…