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Posts published in December 2025

Off the Record 12/16/2025

PEARL HARBOR SURVIVOR (My Annual Remembrance) by Bruce Anderson Count me as one. I was two, my brother one, when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, on December 7, 1941. My brother and I were born…

Lake Superior Never Gives Up Its Dead

There are many things I don’t understand. Some are common, like the mystery of airplanes able to heave their loaded bulk high above the clouds, coming down a million miles away with (almost) never a…

Mendocino County Today: Monday 12/15/2025

Rain Soon | Low Sun | Lead Stories | Bomb Found | Marian Hoyle | Firefighters/Responders | Benavides Recognized | Road Tax | Club Coral | Skunk to MCOG | Mechanic Promotion | Buckhorn Saloon | 1914 News | Yesterday's Catch | Muscle Beach | Cute Inc | Death Hippie | Niners Win | Warlocks | Watching Basketball | Setting Out | Roadside | Road Deaths | Don't Believe | Pesky Regulations | HRC Says | Rebranding Genocide | Busting Kesey | Griffith Griffith | Regret It | Ancient Days

Letters 12/15/2025

Once again, the city of Ukiah has erected its holiday ice rink on School Street near Alex Thomas Plaza. But the “magic of winter” cited by the city’s website comes with costs and consequences.…

That Championship Season

The Golden State Warriors invited the seven surviving players from the team that won the NBA championship in 1975 — Charles Dudley, Jamaal Wilkes, Clifford Ray, Rick Barry, George Johnson, Butch Beard and Jeff Mullins…

Mendocino County Today: Sunday 12/14/2025

Wet Ahead | Cougars/Panthers | Toy Drive | Highway Projects | Sid Waterman | Nye Ranch | Misinformation Rebuttal | Robin Curtis | Fed v State | Sylvia Keller | Blankfort Down | Local Events | Silent Auction | Harbor Cruises | Pet Pepper | Lois Stornetta | Ed Notes | Mendo HR | Yesterday's Catch | Our King | Third Eye | Marco Radio | Flawed Updates | Tech Support | Berkeley Shame | Print Subscription | Reading Now | Hate Amplified | Wrong Again | Yes? | Kokomo | Everything Changed | Workers Song | Homeward | Best Performance | IDF Depravity | Jewish Commonality | Pity 2007 | Internet Control | Dubliners | Woke Right | Free Speech | Navy Rescue | Lead Stories | Pity 1933 | Go Back | Exercise 100 | Composed August | Hadrian's Wall

Advent Lessons

The Christian church year begins on the first Sunday of Advent, which falls either in late November or early December. Many traditions mark the occasion with festive pomp as befits a New Year celebration: organ…

From the Archive (12/30/1985): Sports Notes

SPORTS NOTES was presented with a terrible dilemma on a recent Saturday night, for the first time ever he had been invited to a “sweat.” A “sweat” is an ancient Boonville hippy ceremony wherein all…

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