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Posts published in March 2024

Mendocino County Today: Sunday 3/31/24

Sunny | Horses | Harvey Baumoel | Easter Decor | David Nelson | Referees Needed | Ed Notes | Philo Sign | Moat Creek | Poison Palace | Peachland Cow | AV Events | Alleyway Art | Bess/Rosie | Peter's Past | Pet Reese | Simson Bridge | Mental Illness | SNWMF Lineup | Ceasefire Proclamation | Yesterday's Catch | Egg Industry | Feeding Pom | Arne Walked | Marco Radio | Fancher Monument | Heretic Crusher | Drug Price | Wild Ride | Interracial Cash | Braddock Comeback | Chaplin/Dempsey | SB43 Confusion | Norma Jean | Con Man | Rose Head

Valley People (March 31, 2024)

THE LOTUS HAS RISEN! Bruce Anderson is “doing well” according to family reports, so much so that he demanded we title his status update with the above headline (using a slate and a marker), then…

Breakout On Low Gap Road

Mid-winter, Ukiah, many years ago.  The sullen skies, the weary sun, the scheming team of idle men with crafty minds huddled in a cell at the county jail on Low Gap Road, planning an escape. …

Looking Back!

Life is an incredible ride that is at times bumpy, uneven, grueling very much like the streets of Mendo, hahaha! Sometimes there is even a giant deep dark sinkhole, that you cannot manuever away from…

Mendocino County Today: Saturday 3/30/24

Showers Ending | Mendocino Skyline | Shields Back | Parental Abduction | AVUSD Update | Dr. Alvarez | Water Project | Arcade 1963 | Gas Station | Streetwalker | Moving On | Kitchen Question | Ed Notes | Ballers | Bad Foot | Public Discourse | Jury Deadlocked | Microplastic Madness | Jesus | Happy Easter | Six Felonies | Biter Mike | Boonville Hotel | Sophie 1985 | Board Insights | Yesterday's Catch | Marco Radio | Second Fave | Drug Demand | Wight Lineup | Wrigley West | Aerial View | Mental Jellyfish | Bible Salesman | National Gun | Foldable Drone

Salvaging The Palace

Carolyn Kiernat, a principal in the Page & Turnbull firm in SF, asked me to submit this opinion piece on her behalf. Page & Turnbull, a firm renowned as a California leader in preserving and…

A Few Years Before The Mast

The surfers describe it best: They refer to it as “Answering the calling.” I got it from my dad whose family had been in the oyster business in Chesapeake Bay. Then there was Uncle Merrit…

Mendocino County Today: Friday 3/29/24

Showers | Lichen | Sergeant Save | Four Mo | Country Lane | AVUSD Resignations | Panther Pride | Irv Sutley | Bugle 1972 | Cigarette Robbery | Gordon Black | Home Late | County Permits | Blue Lakers | Narcan Save | Redwood Highway | Unsupervised Goofballs | Mechanic | Essay Contest | Slave Ship | Hippy Stink | Boonville Exchange | Crab Vendors | Mendo Shipwrecks | Yesterday's Catch | Weed Biz | Pink Prayer | Giant Bummers | Wine Shorts | Owl Nest | Dem Biz | Nuclear Winter | Gov Biz | 2 Heads | Motorcycle Philosopher | Queen Tuya | War Victims | Tamar Pelleg-Sryck | Jesus Palestinian

Off the Record (March 29, 2024)

TIP OF THE DAY Re: Known local couple arrested for child cruelty. A READER WRITES: Writing this as a tip towards an emerging story that I know is the tip of the iceberg. Hopefully if…

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