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Posts published in January 2024

The Great Wave

Bainbridge Island, Washington. It was 1973. I was eight years old and Hollywood was into disaster movies. Somehow, I fibbed my way with a friend and his teenage, baby-sitting sister into a matinee screening of…

Mendocino County Today: Saturday, Jan. 20, 2024

Showers | Bobcats | Hike Postponed | Museum Tour | VSO Follies | Office Space | Troubled Angel | Boats | Neighborhood Commerce | Mendo T | Emerald Triangle | Marijuana Issues | AVA Oxford | Ukiah Construction | Cliff House | Permitting Process | Wife Parking | Cancellation Notice | A Catch | Farm Report | That Feeling | Petroglyph Hunt | Yesterday's Catch | Book Notes | Lust Sleepers | Marco Radio | Safest Countries | Home Disadvantage | Grateful Again | Ron DeAbsence | Big Cafes | Susan Sontag | Your Pockets | Sharecropping | Mass Murder | Core Beliefs | US Empire | Grammy Ursula | So Dramatic | Slap Stickers | Hup 1

Last Year’s Current Next Hot Trend

Maybe you’re hoping to get in on the Next Big Thing before it’s replaced by a later, newer trend that’s cooler and hotter.  Heard about Pickleball?  Pickleball is cutting edge, under the radar, ahead of…

History Tidbits of Orr Hot Springs

As a docent at Mendocino’s Kelley House Museum researching a book on the Orr Hot Springs area last year I had amassed more information than I could ever possibly use in what I planned to…

Mendocino County Today: Friday, Jan. 19, 2024

Rain Begins | Willits Airport | Vets Relocation | Fridge Note | Mo Radio | Red Caboose | River Watch | Joe's Ark | Lake Cleone | Ed Notes | Supe Candidates | Palace Love | Yesterday's Catch | Campus Cops | Police Detective | Pointlessly Existing | Destroy Learning | Top Seed | Safety Net | White Christians | Sam Wo | Left Foot | Ground-Floor Hippie | Public Enterprise | Mass Movement | NY Fairytale | Drinking Issues

An Old-Timer’s Guide To SSI

You are eligible to receive Supplemental Security Income, SSI payments (about $914 a month), if you are blind or disabled or over sixty-five, and have $2000 or less in the bank. (In this essay I’m…

Valley People (January 19, 2024)

HIGHWAY 128 WAS CLOSED for a couple of hours early Sunday morning. It reopened at 9:49 am SOUP MAKING WITH LAUREN KEATING Sunday, January 21, 3 to 4:30 PM Anderson Valley Senior Center Refreshments served…

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