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When Giants Strode The Newsroom

There’s hardly such a thing as an old journalist who doesn’t miss the golden era of newspapers and the glamour that went with it.  In fact there’s hardly such a thing as an old journalist,…

Mendocino County Today: Monday, Feb. 13, 2023

North Wind | Skatepark Meeting | Third Place | RV Council | Wave Up | Fire Staffing | Talmage Sky | Super Bowl | Planted Trees | Beautiful Ukiah | Hendy Trail | Valentine Outreach | Stacked Modic | Miller Hiatus | Yesterday's Catch | Little Luck | Sports Drink | Housing Discrimination | Viva! | Black-on-Black | Outdoor Gamer | Scranton Joe | Usal Sunset | Suicide Hotline | Plastics | Neutering Boars | Pinocchio | Paint Jobs | Scary Shadows | Left-Right Coalition | Nursery Rhyme | Listen | Yalta | Serious Ballooning | Frankentrim | Ukraine | 1939 Menu

My Travels With Wes, Part IV

Wes and my Navarro road trip recounted in last week's Advertiser continued south, stopping next at the Floodgate shopping mall Rock Stop store.  The house across the street on the east side of the highway’s origins have…

Glad Rags & Gun Bags

Interesting start of the week on Monday, Jan. 30th when in the afternoon someone dropped off a tool bag with me that didn’t have any tools in it but did contain a couple of guns.…

Mendocino County Today: Sunday, Feb. 12, 2023

Clear & Warm | Pancake Breakfast | Hendy Hike | Ornbaun Fire | Pet Mickey | Shelter Capacity | Spay/Neuter Vouchers | Charging Sites | Golden Owl | Career/College Fair | Heart Health | Fort Bragg Model | Little Dog | Ed Notes | Job Fair | Safe Harbor | Navarro Postcards | Ambling Chanter | Yesterday's Catch | Clean Slate | Shot Costs | Variety Show | Homeless Seniors | Please Explain | Killing Biz | Two Furries | Difference Maker | Ukraine | Ricky Steals | Freelancers Wanted | Sunflower Room

‘For WAR, What’s Another $40 Billion?’

When the editor forwarded the letter from Robert Mailer Anderson that appears on page 2, I thought for a split second that it was a belated apology. More than 25 years ago RMA had slandered…

A True Story From Boonville, 1971

The great hippie political takeover of Mendocino was still a few years away from that summer day in 1971 when we established our raucous brood in Mendocino County's serene summer hills, not far from the…

Mendocino County Today: Saturday, Feb. 11, 2023

Clearing | Goose | Boylan Undeserving | Spaghetti Dinner | Water Rates | Senior Night | AVUSD News | Heart Health | MCHCD Requests | Inspirational Chief | Ed Notes | Tree House | JDSF Applications | Celebrating Women | Help Pebbles | Elijah Frost | Dandelions | Recovery Centers | Wine Walk | Necessary DUI | Yesterday's Catch | Fish Gone | Bird Breath | Unchecked Bureaucracy | Dying Ideal | Trust Petitions | Puritan Valentines | Corporate Power | Social Security | One Recipient | Hecklers Lose | Mixed Up | BarkHaus | Pelosi Reactions | Spay/Neuter | Intelligently Stupid | Housing Issues | German Balloon | Marco Radio | Vintage Valentines | Superfan | Top Heavy | Foundered | Spruce | Ukraine | Bowing | WWIII | Bolivian | Devastation | Today | Stained Glass

The State Of The City

We cautiously started 2022 hoping for the best and learning from all the challenges of 2021 and 2020. Surviving sometimes competing emergencies, the City fared better than predicted. The community members and City staff have…

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