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Posts published in January 2024

Where Everyone Knows The Goat’s Name

Boonville’s Penny Royal Farm is the place to go if you have a soft spot for goats. Here you can visit with Kismet, Ducati, Lady Bug, Vesper, Sandalwood,  Zephyr, Jinx, Albion and Ziti and many…

My Uncle’s War

In my childhood, I was surrounded by evidence that there was something very important going on. Down half a block and around the corner a series of flags began to appear in front windows. Eventually…

Mendocino County Today: Monday, Jan. 8, 2024

Chance Shower | Spring Ranch | Rebecca Jones | Evaporation | Hospice Help | Late Meals | Renaissance Art | Crime Report | Puddle Bird | AV Grange | Log Truck | Ed Notes | Navarro Beach | Being Complete | Robot Confusion | SSI Tips | Rainbow Highway | Trapped Deer | Slop Tsunami | Remarry Money | Forgettable Christmas | Roadsigns | People's Park | Slap It | Niner Loss | Streetlight | Bloody Thursday | Seatmates | Trump Standup | Sinatra 65

Letters (January 8, 2024)

I've read your newspaper for about 25 years. You have never been “back and forth” on the Kennedy assassination! You have always said Oswald did it alone and now you suddenly change your tune…

When Kosher Wine Started in NorCal

Peg Melnik wrote an excellent article on the Barron Herzog Wines several weeks ago in the Press Democrat. She included some of the history of the Herzog Family starting in 1840. I am going to…

Mendocino County Today: Sunday, Jan. 7, 2024

Cubbison Case | Pelicans | PV Quake | Clear & Cold | Missing Camper | Flowerpot | Agenda Highlights | Caspar Surf | Pound Foolish | Pet Luna | AV Events | Homeless Count | Master Farmer | Ed Notes | John Sanford | Dishwashers | Remember When | Yesterday's Catch | Beware AI | Stoner | Marco Radio | Adventure | Park Protest | Ruling Class | Yosemite Mummies | Elvis Car | Fatties | Stupidity Essential | Washington Commanders | Supreme Conflict | Insurrection | Trump Hell | Caps Lock | Biden's Speech | But But

Sheriff Kendall, Origins Of…

Alonzo Burnham Kendall was born October 18, 1835 in Windsor County, Vermont. He died February 24, 1929 in Ukiah and was buried in Manchester. He first married Martha Blake in 1859 who was born in…

The Night The World Ended

It was the last hours of 1999. Lots of people who should know better had predicted that the world would end at midnight. The computers that run industrial civilization wouldn’t be able to make the…

Mendocino County Today: Saturday, Jan. 6, 2024

Showers | Mendocino | Ukiah Stabbing | Police Recruit | Ukiah Construction | Mo Misinfo | Folk Music | Mushroom Foray | Goat Workshop | MLK Day | New Era | Ed Notes | Otsuchi Monument | Adult School | Art Exhibit | Crab Feed | Jags | Coyote Tricks | Pudding Creek | Business Accelerator | Draw Me | Eugene Weekly | Diddy Wah | Bari Story | Yesterday's Catch | Democracy Vigil | Summer 72 | Hated Teams | Marco Radio | San Jose | Exploited | Broken System | Bacon Exhibit | Socialism/Capitalism | Camilo Cienfuegos | Academic Freedom | Sick Society | Crackerback | Campaign Trail | Epstein Collection | Gay Replacement | Don't Look | Ask Huff | Gaza Casualties | Husband 1.0 | Post 1955

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