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Posts published in December 2024

Full Moon Shines On The Boonville Fair [2008]

I like the Fair best that first day, that Friday early afternoon when the flowers are still fresh, before the crowds become so thick it's hard to find old friends among all the strangers, the…

Brother Ray Makes My Day

One sunny San Francisco morning in the 1990s I was sitting in my office trying to decide which pile of papers and journals and telephone messages piled on my desk to tackle first, when the…

Mendocino County Today: Saturday 12/7/2024

Forks Cafe | Mostly Cloudy | Sea Stacks | Seven Injured | Lisa Walters | Redwood Classic | Huge Mess | T & U | AV Ponds | Two-Inch Stack | Emergency Alerts | Lineman Schwarm | Shop Local | Planning Commission | Festive Fun | Crafts Fair | Birthday Friscia | Kitten Oz | Holiday Party | Nelson Brothers | Holiday Bazaar | P&F Bills | Yesterday's Catch | Judge Thomas | Wine Shorts | Tomales/Tam | PG&E Bills | Participle Ghost | Private Hydrants | Want Change | Marco Radio | O Tannenbum | Housing Mandatory | Very Wrong | Book Facts | Delay, Deny | Sinking | Real Villains | Soda Case | Says Everything | Citizen Welles | Execution Song | Hookers | Apologies Afroman | No Stocking | TV Rack | Lead Stories | Double Deadlock | Ms Zorro | Joe Pardons | Cockroaches | Gladiator Soundtrack | Pachyderm Pal

Letters 12/7/2024

An application has been submitted to the Mendocino Historic Review Board to demolish the water tower as a third attempt to disregard the important landmarks of Mendocino, this time with a plan to replace it with stairs.…

Bill & Me And The Dems

Quick Weather Report Since this Pineapple Express hit at 9pm Tuesday night on Nov. 19, bringing .12 inches of precip, Wednesday 5.96 inches fell, 6.61 inches on Thursday, 1.54 inches on Friday, .62 inches on…

Mendocino County Today: Friday 12/6/2024

Disheveled | Mostly Sunny | Duenas Correction | Venus | Ferndale Earthquake | Missing Manuel | Shields Report | Greenwood Fair | Community Dinner | Mendo News | Boonfire | JDSF Comment | Toy Run | Adventist Shuffle | Parents Night | The Hitchhiker | Drive-Thru Tree | Ken Anderson | Neto Hotel | Billy Lou | Yesterday's Catch | Fruit Planets | Deportation Plans | Julia Morgan | Capitalist Exploitation | Getting Cold | Peppers Sweater | Detention Center | Yantiss Family | Blanket Pardons | Plays Cello | Chomsky 96 | Genocide Stain | Fixing FBI | Johnson/Ketchel Bout | Lead Stories | Springtime | CEO Killing | Butaritari Island

Valley People 12/6/2024

TINY HOMES, BOONVILLE STYLE. Last April we published a brief plug for two local guys who had announced that they were setting up some kind of tiny home production business. But there wasn’t much else…

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