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Mendocino County Today: Tuesday, August 1, 2023

Normal Temps | Seastacks | Strike Vote | Mendo Wages | Fishrock Tour | Mendo Crops | Skunk Yard | Night Out | Bragg Bear | Orr Springs | Ed Notes | Senior Benefit | Writers Events | Westport Beach | Action Network | Pigeon Sass | Doom Overload | Meet Shep | Winesong 2023 | Jury Duty | Random Haiku | Yesterday's Catch | Scrap Metal | Vacation Complaints | Text & Drive | Addiction Brains | Monetize This | Distractions | Bad Day | Enough Blame | Best People

Singing In The Woods

Strange songs haunt the fairy tales collected by the Brothers Grimm and first published in 1812 in Berlin. “Old Hildebrand,” a story of a parson’s attempt to seduce a peasant’s wife, ends with a rousing…

Dorothy Day, Real Saint

John Cardinal O’Connor, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of New York, proposed recently the canonization of Dorothy Day. If she makes it through that long process, it would only be fitting for the Pope to come…

Mendocino County Today: Monday, July 31, 2023

Sunshine | Gualala Beach | County Notes | Pudding Silhouette | AVUSD Updates | Art Walk | Hot Pot Lot | Rock Layers | Citizen Connect | Two Types | Mini Farms | Golden Grass | Lazy Afternoon | Hoek Residence | Happenin' Here | Always Unfulfilled | Garden Tour | Yesterday's Catch | Three Realities | Lewis Hine | Forgotten Victims | Babe & Yogi | Biden Lies | Fox Barbie | Prince Shows | Herb Caen | Ukraine | Great Poem

Will SCOTUS Cure Big Pharma’s Anxiety?

On Tuesdays the New York Times still runs a “Science” section in the print edition. It never attracts advertisers but Big Pharma supports it with online ads. (The Times has more than 8 million online…

A Mendocino Remembrance circa 1942

When Alvin Mendosa’s long-time friend, Buddy Fraser, passed away in 2018, Alvin received a copy of Buddy’s memoir of town life during World War II. Alvin recognized a little gem when he saw it, and…

Mendocino County Today: Sunday, July 30, 2023

Dry | Grass | Strike Vote | Spurs Fire | School Bash | Local Pharmacy | Tragic Drownings | Willits Library | Power Outages | AV Events | Pet Bullwinkle | Supe Recess | Barn Sale | Ed Notes | Mendocino Refuge | First MEC | Summer Set | Super Puffed | Yesterday's Catch | Meteor Showers | Comet Leonard | Barbie Thing | Not Identified | Dempsey Demise | No Manners | Fern | Marco Radio | Auto Parade | Sinead O'Connor | Phoenix Sun | Girls Leery | Ukraine | John Lewis | Bad Management | Flower Verge | Lonely Frank | Stupid Answers | Joe Scrivener | Reading Time

Conversation On An Airplane

The art of conversation, or at least practice, is as dead and gone as your grandmother’s DeSoto sedan. This didn’t happen last week nor last decade but it makes no difference. We no longer sit…

History & Highjinks

We continue our conversation with John Hulbert, Pacific Bell retiree and lifelong Anderson Valley resident. Recently, my brother Scott, who is also a PacBell retiree, my mother Fran and I had the pleasure of meeting…

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