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New Year’s Resolutions, Lies & Excuses

Now’s the time of year we bore readers with New Year Resolutions, in which talent-free columnists promise to lose weight, learn a foreign language, volunteer at the library, join a health club, go vegan and…

Mendocino County Today: Tuesday, Jan. 2, 2024

Rainy Day | Pink Clouds | Rainfall Totals | Gray Clouds | Ed Notes | Laytonville Geiger's | AV Newsletter | Exit Date | Starbucks Skirmish | Free Meal | Spansule | High Noon | Camp Fun | 1938 Wedding | Yesterday's Catch | Scotia Ferry | Country Concept | Hip Replacement | S.A.D. | Electricity Explained | Something Big | Scariest Part | War Party | Arizona Mining | Perfect Offering | Dragon Kite

Counting Lumber Mills & Logging Railroads

With the local timber industry ever waning in Mendocino County it’s educational to look back and see what a role logging railroads and lumber mills once played in the local economy. Take logging railroads —…

San Francisco During The War [1949]

World War II hit Baghdad by the Bay like a ton of block busters. Overnight the self-contained, self-satisfied city whose population had stood absolutely still for a decade was transformed into a major Port of…

Mendocino County Today: Monday, Jan. 1, 2024

Dry Day | Rainbow | Earthquakes | Ukiah Stabbing | Donna J | Valley Deaths | Boomer Jack | Mail Theft | Whitmore Building | Creative Writing | MCHCD Credibility | Toast | Mendo Beavers | Westport Landing | Ed Notes | Deathness | CSD Meeting | 2024 | Historic Equipment | Yesterday's Catch | Bar Joke | Computer Tip | PG&E Rates | Miss Beatniks | Roosevelt Search | Water Graphed | Wine Troubleshooting | Not Intelligent | Top Seed | Carlisle Indians | Pointless | Order/Species | Nature-Loving Advisory | Hillbilly Scientology | Hafez Sez | Spinning Fast | 55 Party | Resolutions | Troubles

The Future Of Shoes: Cheap & Ugly

I have seen the future of footgear, and its name is Hey Dude.  Despite the improbable brand label, Hey Dude shoes will soon sweep the country like hula hoops, Beanie Babies and Taylor Swift all…

Hardy’s Christmas Ghost

Thomas Hardy’s poem ‘A Christmas Ghost-Story’ was published in the England’s Westminster Gazette in December 1899, two months after the start of the Second Anglo-Boer War. The ghost is that of a soldier, and the…

Mendocino County Today: Sunday, Dec. 31, 2023

Sprinkles | Storm Birds | End-of-the-Year Awards | Officer Arellano | Hendy Day | Pet Wally | Ed Notes | Bainbridge Enhancements | Corner Saloon | Yesterday's Catch | Portuguese Hall | Banning Trump | Mules & Goats | Sweet Loss | Fed Up | Brightbead Cotoneaster | Progressive Podcasts | Jess Willard | Lottery Tickets | Dragon Year | Marco Radio | Seasons Greetings | Library Winners | Blacky Claus | PG&E Rates | Liquor Lips | Beavers Released | Narcotic Story | Art World | Free Palestine | Predictions 2024 | Cooking Chickens | Auld Lang Syne | Not Anti

Letters (December 31, 2023)

Tuesday, December 19th, 2023 — 700 Mendocino County workers — including road crews, public health nurses, and children’s social workers — voted to ratify a union contract with a 77% “yes” vote…

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