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Posts published in March 2024

Rock ’N’ Roll, The Autopsy

Rock ’n’ Roll is dead, buried, gone and no one even showed up to mourn at its graveside. Or attend the Celebration of Death. It was once promised that “Rock ’n’ Roll Will Never Die,”…

Mendocino County Today: Sunday 3/17/24

Sunny Warm | Wake Robin | Staffing Crisis | AVUSD News | Ridgewood Ranch | Skunk Response | Logging Locomotive | Earth Day | Earth Tongues | Shields Report | Roper Trucking | Louise Letter | Kleiser House | Looking Forward | Passenger Ramp | Ed Notes | Hop Festival | Killer Horses | Yesterday's Catch | Killer Recipes | Wild Rumpus | Perfect Morning | Invasion Break | Collective Unconscious | Jump Realization | Marco Radio | Inactivated Subs | Censorious Friends | Motor Maid | Ultimate Trust | Peasants | Gleaners

The Kendall Family Saga, Part II

The Kendall family settlers in Anderson Valley, founders of Kendall City (soon subsequently renamed Boonville) descended from English, Scots, Irish and perhaps Spanish ancestors. Y.I. Kendall’s wife Flavilla (Fanny) Burnham Kendall was Scots-English (her first…

Daylight Stretching Time

Short winter days bumming you out? Try Daylight Stretching Time (DST), the newest, grooviest way to beat the darkness. Say you live near the latitude of Seattle, where December sunrise/sunset is roughly 8am/4pm. That 8am…

Mendocino County Today: Saturday 3/16/24

Sunny | Heilan Coo | Aural Assault | AVCSD Resignations | Fortunate Sheep | Ukiah Construction | Calypso Orchid | Skunk Review | Mo's Meeting | Scott's Sharpening | Vet Gratitude | Ocean View | Only One | Sheriff Interview | Adverse Effects | Yesterday's Catch | Torturing Tinkerbelle | Sanchez Sketchbook | Marco Radio | Godfather 1972 | Cannabis Tax | Cat Training | Incredible Hash | Low Wages | Dorothea Puente House | Up End | TikTok Ban | Lady Pilot | Neoliberal Doctrines | Our Collapse | Wonderful Season | 1969 Hippies

Off the Record (March 16, 2024)

CORRECTION: Of course, Alan Crow writing from Vacaville prison in last week’s paper DID NOT SAY “kill her,” in his letter about Kelli Johnson’s arrest. He said, “Nonetheless, good luck to her. May she find…

Big Mike Nolan

Long before the Twenty-First Amendment was ratified outlawing the production, transportation and sale of alcoholic beverages nationwide, communities across the nation were voting to “go dry” step by step, as the Temperance Movement gained strength…

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