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Posts published in February 2024

Remembering Anderson Valley’s First People [1936]

My first recollections of the Indians in Anderson Valley was in the early 1870s, probably 1874 or 1875. At that time, the rancheria was on the bluff, facing Anderson Creek and a small creek or…

Mendocino County Today: Saturday, Feb. 17, 2024

Rain Begins | Scott Dam | Unity Club | Eye House | P Money | Wise Doc | Utility Tax | Clean Underwear | Return VSO | Sheriff Kendall | Listserv Moderators | Small Town | Big Hair | Bragg Council | James Joyce | Gaska Endorsement | Haight/Ashbury | Junk Calls | Yesterday's Catch | Half Talent | Edward Hopper | Marco Radio | Wasted Lives | President Phillips | Jet Parts | Industrial Agriculture | Mind Control | Three Pounds | Gaza Atrocity | Baker Test | Money People | Service Station | Cellphone Resistance | Best Daughter

Fugitive Music: The Zone of Interest & the Chorus of Souls

Few if any moviegoers will stray into The Zone of Interest thinking it’s a biopic about Fed Chairman Jerome Powell and his tight-fisted monetary policy. They know beforehand that they’ve come to see a Holocaust…

Valley People (February 17, 2024)

A MODERATE/MILD 3.2 magnitude earthquake centered about 3 miles northeast of Boonville jiggled the Boonville area for a couple of seconds about 4:45pm last Sunday, not Super Sunday.  LARGE OFFICE SPACE NOW AVAILABLE FOR RENT…

Mendocino County Today: Friday, Feb. 16, 2024

Rain Coming | Doc's Shots | Corrected Ballots | Park Update | VSO Issue | Become Tiresome | Ed Notes | Prognosis Positive | Sleep Normally | Outage Panic | Calypso Orchid | Public Safety | Mockel Endorsement | Weed Everywhere | Junkie | Customer Service | Yesterday's Catch | Irony | Mouse Club | Big Tech | Rat Race | Paint Job | Dependents | Moral Collapse | Barbarism | Cowboy Nation | Eggs Ackley | Zionist Scheme | New America | Independence Float

Household Rulebook, NFL-Style

The American household suffers from a lack of rules. The average family has only vague notions of improper behavior, and consequences are rarely defined.  Rather than hazy misunderstandings about proper behavior, proper decor and proper…

‘Almost Immediately’

The highlight of Tuesday’s Board of Supervisors meeting was Vietnam Veteran Don Shanley’s statement to the Board dressing them down over their ill-considered and abrupt eviction of the Veterans Service Office from their nice little…

Mendocino County Today: Thursday, Feb. 15, 2024

Showers | Landers Chat | Judge Challenged | Saint Valentin | Ed Notes | Iceman | Teeter Remark | Forest Volunteers | P Money | 1909 Hotel | Palace Pending | SNWMF 2024 | Urban Planning | Chester Burnett | PG&E Shadow | Crow | Book Sale | Tax Preparer | Gas Stations | Eyeglass | Candidate Ariel | Noyo Consort | Dylan/Ali | Grape Harvest | Yesterday's Catch | Mapper Joe | Non Attached | Bonner Family | Niner Loss | Wilks Sacked | Psyche Evals | Busy Girl | Two Lessers | Israel Problem | Dem Scenarios | Duopoly

Field Notes From The Northcoast Outback

Superbowl Invitation This is an outrage, this is a crime against nature: We have Carl here, a big sports fan who has humbly just listened on the radio to every 49ers game this year, watches…

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