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Posts published in May 2024

Valley People (May 22, 2024)

GLORIA ABBOTT It is with a heavy heart that I announce the passing of Gloria Faye Abbott (Ornbaun). Gloria passed away peacefully in her sleep on Monday, May 13th, after a long battle of Dementia.…

Mendocino County Today, Tuesday 5/21/24

Sunny | Larry Bensky | PG&E Grass | Sports Awards | Gregory Noyes | Tiny Lotus | Walking Exercise | Candy Chaos | Boss Letter | BHAB Meeting | Egregious Behavior | Westport Waves | Bridge Lead | Book Box | Covelo Library | Granddaughter Pitching | Ed Notes | Treefrog | Helicopter Training | Yesterday's Catch | Economic Shapes | AB1999 Killed | Robert Mitchum | Mountain Biking | What The | Loss Prevention | Gourmet Lunch | Trans Athletes | The Crumps | Fugazy Land | Swallowed Up | Real Housewives | Civil Obedience | Country Vista

John Muir, The Untold Story

Cast Out of Eden: The Untold Story of John Muir, Indigenous Peoples, and the American Wilderness. By Robert Aquinas McNally. University of Nebraska Press; May 1, 2024 “Only to the white man was nature a…

Goodbye To All That [December 1999]

Somewhere around mid-November the Y2K whimpering died down out of sheer exhaustion. Humboldt County [where Cockburn lived at the time of this writing] is calm. A couple of weeks ago I asked the amiable Jim,…

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…

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