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Posts published in April 2024

Peter Plate: San Francisco’s Now Noir Novelist

Where the hell is Peter Plate? And who the hell is he? His editor, Dan Simon, calls him a “proletarian novelist,” but that doesn’t seem right. The author of ten novels, all of them set…

Shipwrecks On The Mendocino Coast

When the Kelley House Museum in Mendocino was founded 50 years ago researchers here found that people loved a good shipwreck story and wanted to share their version of a story told to them by…

Mendocino County Today: Sunday 4/7/24

Clearing | Museum Opening | AV Events | Benefit Turnout | Structurally Sound | Pet Wooly | VFP Gathering | Foodbank Driver | Reboont Berry | 1950 Opener | Soccer All-Stars | Ed Notes | Kate Coleman | Yesterday's Catch | Managing Pedophiles | Eureka Theater | No More | Zero Sense | Marco Radio | Hitchcock & Caen | Turf War | Muck Heap | Starving Children | Henri Matisse | RFK Jr | Nash Airflyte | Insatiable Bloodlust | Another World | Lower Deserts | Skeleton Spectre

Day Of Remembrance

It has been one year since Riley Hsieh went missing on 3/27/2023. He has not been heard from or seen since. Which sadly is not entirely true because according to a reputable source who unabashedly…

African Safari Guide Visits The Valley

An unusual opportunity presented itself this past week. Antony Munene, an African safari guide, arrived from Nairobi Kenya to share his story. Four different groups at Ukiah High School (where his hosts Jill and Jim…

All Rise For The Service Dog

Service Dogs are the Marine recruits of canines, fresh from drill camp, ready to take on the world.  Service Dogs are single-minded, utterly devoted and unswerving in their duty and loyalty. Because of their rigorous…

Mendocino County Today: Saturday 4/6/24

Cold Start | East Ukiah | Jamie Lee? | Stolen Lexus | RV Water | Ukiah Construction | AV Farm Supply | Route 162 | Usal Road | Feathers Case | BOS Bug | Hrbac Sentenced | Turkey Vulture | Grassi Concert | May Near | Dung Shirt | Anderson Interview | MV Mendocino | Mendo Map | Candidate Pinches | Yesterday's Catch | Recidivism Rate | Dirty Dog | Two Years | Huffman Treats | Marco Radio | Butterfly Years | Golden Milk | Fairfax Merchants | Easter Bunting | Webb Yeah! | Opening Day | Joe Adcock | Stateless A's | Stadium Way | Buying Power | Rocky Marciano | Purdy Good | Hero Herod | Summer 77 | Caitlin Training | Jake LaMotta | Old Taboos | Sisterhood | Dangerous Vector | Fern Butterflies | Demographic Winter | Anita Hemmings | Front Page | Vincent's Bedroom

Moving

We’re moving from the East Bay to the Wine Country, one carload at a time. I promised Rosie I would bring all her possessions and not try to distinguish between the useless stuff and the treasures.…

The Kendall Family Saga, Part 3

Sheriff Matt Kendall’s father Burl was born in the Fort Bragg Lumber Company hospital in Fort Bragg in March, 1935, and spent his early childhood with his parents Alonzo Francis and Fern Kendall, the managers…

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