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Posts published in May 2024

We’ll Have to Stop Meeting Like This

As you’re boiling water for coffee, you turn on the morning news – recurring loops of crime, traffic and weather bracketed by ads you’ve heard thousands of times. In Northern California the company providing the…

Saving Local History

With the demise of the print version of this newspaper I’ve written for for over a decade I thought about what I’d like to contribute to the last issue. I write a lot about local…

Time Flies

The older I get, the more I realize the truth in the Latin saying “Tempus Fugit”; time flies. Plus a second truth: “As time flies, the world changes.”  I’ve read the Anderson Valley Advertiser for…

Mendocino County Today: Saturday 5/4/24

Rain | Eel Bridge | BOS Tuesday | Boxes Wanted | Tucker Flocked | AVUSD News | Memorial Day | Grocery Debacle | MCHCD Meetings | Butcher Harris | County Notes | State Street | Historic Palace | Urban Viewshed | Dam Removal | Butterfly Soaring | Giving Circle | Mister Natural | Ed Notes | Crime Kit | Single-Truth Communities | Yesterday's Catch | Marco Radio | River Reggae | Suing AI | Say Hey | Prices | Surfers Missing | Supreme Perks | Bipartisan Scandal | Female Sasquatch | Hamas Chicks | Aint Right | Agitator Fiction | Camp Activity | Protest Violence | The Entertainer | Liberalism Crisis | Slug & Lettuce | Honeybee Invasion | Pre-Internet | White Moderate | Lucretius Problem | Into Books | Azalea Search | Apache Women

The End of the Paper-Paper

This issue of the Anderson Valley Advertiser is the very last one you will ever hold in your hands. As a tangible entity the paper is done. For those whose routine includes a Thursday ritual…

On The Mountain House Road Again

During my last stretch home in Ukiah I promised myself a leisurely trip out Mountain House Road. I cashed that promise in and left Hopland, heading south.  I’ve lived 40 years in Ukiah, and like…

Mendocino County Today: Friday 5/3/24

Cloudy | Lilies | Laytonville Grocery | Caspar Event | Road Damage | Beer Fest | Ukiah Construction | Willits Graffiti | Ukiah Aesthetic | Cabot Cove | Brown Zone | Care Week | Ed Notes | Yesterday's Catch | Labor Law | Lucky Investors | PG&Expensive | Cut! | Energy Costs | Frank James | Brewery Brats | Bottle Stages | On Protesting | Free Palestine | Effective Demonstrating | Stormy | Hedges Canceled | Functioning Psychopaths | Trump Bucks | Grumpy Seinfeld | Garden Wear | Pharaoh Like | True Compassion | Whitebells

Off the Record (May 3, 2024)

A READER WRITES: I mourn the end of your newspaper in my life, but I also rejoice at its presence in my life for the more than 40 years I lived in Anderson Valley with…

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