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Posts published in March 2024

Meeting Doug Holland

I was going to be up in the Seattle area and wondered what it would be like to meet Doug Holland, who chronicles his daily life with a blog (‘Diary Of A Fat Slob’), a…

Mendocino County Today: Saturday 3/23/24

Showers | Creekside Tracks | Doing Well | AVA Readers | Redwood Violet | AVUSD News | Overdose Spots | FFA Conference | MS Notes | Frog Woman Rock | Salvage Palace | Tsunami Test | Bess Bair | Planning Agenda | Please Re-Read | Sorrel Patch | Ancestral Trip | Yesterday's Catch | Half Beans | Steelhead Return | Ferlinghetti 2012 | Fame Game | Run Spot | Executing Willie | Contains Nuts | AI Censoring | Tittle Picked | Gino Lawsuit | Arles Avenue

Valley People (March 23, 2024)

TYLER NEIL of Yorkville died late last week of complications from pneumonia after falling ill in January. The Benefit on April 6 at the Fairgrounds in Boonville is still on to raise money to help…

You Must Not Remember This

Over the years we’ve noted a trend in the American language whereby two words are made to substitute for one. I’m sure we’ve missed some and would appreciate any additions you, dear reader, can provide.…

Mendocino County Today: Friday 3/22/24

Rainy/Breezy | Torch Lily | Atheists Prayer | Road Work | Navarro Resilience | Barn Cats | Toothwort | County Notes | Scam Alert | Sheriff's News | Domestic Violence | Walton Poem | Blood Drive | Mockel Amazed | Alfonso Story | Homeless America | Ralph Esmay | Ed Notes | Navarro Mill | Sea Story | Yesterday's Catch | Highway Depressions | Bridge Jumpers | Noir Novelist | Times Square | 2024 Election | Parliament | Antisemitism Dodge | Masked | Devil Terms | Spring Training | Last Invocation

A Mother’s Beheading Shakes Little River

Little River, Mendocino County — The night before the shooting and killing and roaring flames changed everything, Asahn Smith got a text from a friend he hadn’t spoken with in years. Fletcher Pinkham, his old…

Johnny Pinches, An Appreciation

We have always considered John Pinches to have been a good supervisor, certainly a much better supervisor than any of his four colleagues when one applies the standard of the greater good. The prevailing myth…

Mendocino County Today: Thursday 3/21/24

Calm Before | Sunset Sky | Domestic Murder | Pump Station Plan | Cape Horn Dam | Palace Emergency | Anaeyllis Gualalis | Library By Mail | Roadwork Intersection | Circumbureaucracy | Old Cadillac | Fingers Wiggle | Cook Job | Wine Biz | Mendocino Profile | Landline Backlash | Hawk Carving | Ed Notes | Tellyvision | Talmage Hopsital | David Colfax | Zilla Birthday | Palace Memories | Yesterday's Catch | Neeli Cherkovski | Computer Poem | 1920 Blues | School Attendence | Rico | Cheer Up | Jerk Coach | Free Seats | Hopkins Case | Senior Surprise | Greenwald Discussion | Oklahoma City | Rail Project | Inconsiderate Aloofness | The Sower

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