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C.P.W. ’65 / 45rpm

I hadn’t ever heard “feedback,” in a musical sense, before, but the howling that kick-started the Beatles’ ‘I Feel Fine’ was an instant hit with me. This was long ago. You needed to snap molded…

Olompali’s Tragic History

Olompali, translated from the Miwok as “southern people” or “southern village,” lies just north of Novato, directly off Highway 101. It’s a state park these days but goes way back as the site of a…

Mendocino County Today: Thursday, March 30, 2023

Cold | Sunlight | Damaged Pickup | Covelo Homicide | Flowers Blooming | Allen Help | Chinatown Facade | Tsunami Warning | Beerfest | Canning Nevedal | Library Groups | SNWMF | Ed Notes | Look Away | Big Mistake | Martha Gellhorn | Writers Read | Long Sentence | Modern Fall | Spanish Class | Device Update | Symphony Concerts | Student Art | Sako Radio | Yesterday's Catch | Ablution Man | Big Oil | Tax Loopholes | Youthful Mistakes | Post Collapse | Armed Problem | Owner Solution | Photo Exhibition | Slavery History | Man Fun | Birth Announcement | Figs | North Borneo | Microchip Warfare | Make Music | Hippie Utopias | Potatoes

County’s Pointless Fight With Sheriff Cost Taxpayers Almost $400k

On August 4, 2021, several months after then-CEO Carmel Angelo threatened to send a bill to Sheriff Kendall for $1.6 million for ordinary law enforcement overtime, as she simultaneously undertook steps to fold the Sheriff’s…

Letters (March 30, 2023)

Are grants a good thing or a bad thing? Plenty of discussions have arisen lately about grants and how they either help or hinder our communities…

Mendocino County Today: Wednesday, March 29, 2023

Showers | Highway Snow | Missing Person | Rainbow | Nevedal Resigns | Eel Hatcheries | Tsunami Test | Leadership Needed | Family Day | Barn Sale | Seaweed Exhibit | Gaska Declares | Westport Whale | Ed Notes | First-Aid Class | Beaver Myth | Pulido Packing | LakeCo Aurora | Pension Problems | Get Dressed | Tree Watcher | Yesterday's Catch | Romo Retires | Special Player | Fentanyl Demand | Sea Mountain | God-Given | People Control | Xmas Militia | Social Contagion | Grotesque | Docile Suffering | Saloon Song | Debating Medicare | Ukraine | NYC 1955 | Ludwig Wittgenstein | Ideal Man | Music Torch | Robert Frost | Happy Cities | Doggy People | Window Washing

Off the Record (March 29, 2023)

ALTHOUGH LEGGETT'S MELISSA ROSENTHAL went to all the 2020 redistricting meetings to lobby for the far north county to remain in the 3rd District where it's been for a hundred-plus years, and where Leggett also…

Valley People (March 29, 2023)

JANET GOLDEN-WHITEAKER: Dad told mom he would be right behind her, he kept his word. He passed away barely over a week after mom. Winfred Golden lived in the valley from the late 40's until…

Mendocino County Today: Tuesday, March 28, 2023

Cold Front | Poppies | Bessie Carine | Office Job | Native Clearing | Rental Home | Ed Notes | KZYX Hiring | Beerfest Tickets | Lighthouse Tours | Raven Takeoff | Earth Day | DUI Sentenced | Molester Sentenced | Trillium Cafe | Ivermectin Story | Olompali History | Yesterday's Catch | Women Firefighters | Old Shack | Adventure Gals | Giants Banner | Shooter Caitlin | Appliance Salesman | Bravado BS | Eddie Gaede | Ukraine | Forest Defenders | Nuclear Madness | Let's Bark | Eastertime Carol | Woke Quest | Conover Interview | International Day

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