Press "Enter" to skip to content

Posts published in May 2024

Mendocino County Today: Monday 5/20/24

Cool | Hills | Frost Fans | Gravesite Robbed | Challenging Dynamic | DUI Guilt | Speaker Rivas | Art Center | Palace Position | Pet Inky | Ukiah Institutions | Grandfather Rocks | Animal Care | Rate Increases | Atomic Test | Ed Notes | Yesterday's Catch | Farmworker Pay | JFK Quote | Dog Insurance | Clean & Sober | Illegal Weed | Debate Conditions | Flat Globe | Threat Response | Hung Laundry | Managing Hypertension | Mr Sketchum | Eurovision Neutrality | Billboard Painters

The Many Voices Of Sheridan Malone

The most shocking jolt I’ve ever experienced at an onstage performance came in the 1980s at the Ukiah Playhouse.  Daughter Emily and I were happily engrossed in ‘Oliver Twist,’ a kid-friendly play with plenty of…

Big Tech Accelerates Isolationism

By producing such extremes of wealth, big tech is returning us to a kind of feudalism, with a few powerful figures accountable to no one. Here’s Elon Musk, the world’s richest person, who — after…

Off the Record (May 19, 2024)

JIM MARTIN Dear Friends of Jim Martin, It is with a heavy heart that I share the news of Jim's passing. As many of you know, he fought hard against lung cancer for the past…

The Little Things That Count [1950]

San Francisco. Sentimental expatriates say, “You can leave it—but it never leaves you.” It has three approaches by land, only one of which is free. It is full of fleas that bite only tourists and…

Mendocino County Today: Saturday 5/18/24

Weak Fronts | Offshore Fog | Willits Online | Rebs v Yankees | Broken Process | Mountain Lion | Ed Notes | Scottish Longhairs | F&G Decisions | Palace Shadows | P Money | Horseback Birds | CEO Report | On Antle | Mo Tiktok | Old TV | Ukiah Streetscaping | Writers Read | SNWMF Lineup | Yesterday's Catch | Rockaway Lifeguard | Marco Radio | New Shanachie | Boo CPUC | Tally Man | Evacuation Exercise | All Normal | Boycott Punished | Eric Shocked | SF Homeless | Clint 2024 | Bussing California | Joe Pyne | Time Question | Bar Stools | Journalistic Neutrality | Don't Care | Failed State | Fledglings Pledging | Arms Merchant | Bombing Kids | Infernal Machines | Look Away

Valley People (May 18, 2024)

BOONVILLE DISTILLERY: Our new margarita flight…pepperoncini margarita, pickle margarita, and the devil’s margarita (our classic margarita topped with Anderson Valley Pinot Noir!) each one refreshing and tasty! Come check with out! MY GRANDSON, a sixth…

J.D. Ball

His granddaughter, Melissa (Ball) Kendrick of Ukiah, wrote the following sketch of his early life. The History of Mendocino County of 1880 gives the same information. Mr. Ball (known always in Anderson Valley as “J.D.”…

-