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Posts published in April 2024

The Sandbox

When a friend recently told me she was depressed again I offered some suggestions: Time to get distracted by something fun? Like a funny show or comedian on Youtube? Try to figure out how to…

Pear Sheds

One night in 1954, I was coming out of my driveway and could see a red glow in the sky to the south. As I came closer to the town of Hopland, the red glow…

Mendocino County Today: Monday 4/15/24

Clearing | Angel Missing | Ed Notes | GRT Views | Mosswood & Farmhouse | Comptche Woods | Edmundson Photos | Bridge Opening | Mission Accomplished | Ode to Blanche | Slaughter Yard | Elect Galletti | North Carolina | Yesterday's Catch | Armageddon Update | Say Anything | Other Side | A Joke | Approval Ratings | NPR Uproar | Clearly Unfit | Skirt Check | Lulu Dare | Guru U | Mary Fields | Dog Show | Goony Birds

May Day

In 1969, journalists Andrew Kopkind and James Ridgeway started a Washington-based biweekly newsletter called Mayday. They were soon enjoined by lawyers representing a publication of that name devoted to safe boating.  (“M’aidez” in French means…

Eradication & Cultivation

The title probably caught your eye thinking this would be a great story about Cannabis!! Haha. This is actually a perspective on the eradication of outdated ideas about mental illness, addiction & homelessness and the…

The Christening of the MV Mendocino [September 2001]

Things were about as exciting as they get in Mendoland on Friday, July 20th, 2001, when the MV Mendocino was officially christened at Noyo Harbor in Fort Bragg. A band played, people cheered, Mendo poobahs…

Mendocino County Today: Sunday 4/14/24

Rain | Cattle | VSO Move | AV Events | Floral Coast | Senior Lunch | Fish Passage | Ed Notes | Rail Trail | Wildflower Show | Pet Casanova | Landlordism | Disaster Relief | Casanova Concert | Boonville Lodge | Yesterday's Catch | The Marginalian | Raised Beds | Marco Radio | Midhusband | Weed Week | Lotta Dope | Homelessness Programs | Lucy Thompson | Essential Workers | Jay Silverheels | Buffett Wake | Crossroads | NPR Fatigue | Draftees | Capitalism Gangster | Geography Struggle | Backwards Land | Beautiful World | Bob Gibson | Avenue D

The Fashauer Family In The Valley

I met Anne Fashauer at Mosswood on a wet Saturday last month for morning coffee and ancestors story-telling.  We consumed about two hours of her recollections, along with a political discussion about real estate commission…

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