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Mendocino County Today: Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2022

Cold Wet | Missing Person | Skate Park | Bargaining Chip | Sunrise | Ed Notes | Celebrating Women | Crabbing Delayed | Acorn Festival | Vote Against | Donuts | Veterans Day | Thin Veil | Giant Pumpkin | Yesterday's Catch | Entitled Elite | Ozark Gas | Rethink Dairies | Kwasi | Broad Education | Gun Dump | Twitterpated | Touch Not | Trump Not | Perp ID | Wicked Man | Two Devils | Cockamamie Story | Hammertime | SF Shenanigans | Flying Bugs | Ukraine | Both Times | Repercussions | Starbucks Sucks | Deathbed Confession | Long Night

Willis Tucker, A Shining Light

Willis “Willie” Tucker was born on the family farm in Meyer Creek, Arkansas, in 1926.  The farm, his daughter Marti Titus believes, was around a hundred acres of gently rolling bottomland along the creek where…

Mendocino County Today: Monday, Oct. 31, 2022

Cold Rain | FFA Fieldtrip | AV Events | 101 Fatality | Dems Endorse | Whitesboro Wharf | MCHCD Future | McCowenspotting | Rolling Pharmacy | McEwen Carving | CA Issues | Early Ukiah | Bookshop Events | Witch Crash | Nurturing Violence | Yesterday's Catch | Niners Win | Lefty Gomez | Marco Radio | Statues Rising | Two Upgrades | Mississippi Son | Luxury Flop | Mouse Archer | Dystopia 2022 | Death Rides | A Newspaper | Ghosting | Dogshit Confession | Paleface Time | X Settlement | Paradise Lost | Lula Wins | Parent Protest | Black Baseball | Zola | Ukraine | Entwined | Gearhart Documentary

Pot Program Still A Mess, Only Bigger

What a difference a year makes. Last year, reacting to a bone-headed attempt by the County (with the exception of Supervisor John Haschak) to expand marijuana production by an across-the-board 10 percent, growers broke all…

Words Ain’t What They Used To Be

Definitions dreamed up in a slow stretch at the column-writing factory: APPLE: Once defined as a fruit varietal, now best known as a cyber-digital entity, and to a lesser extent as a recording label; see…

Mendocino County Today: Sunday, Oct. 30, 2022

Warm | Smoky | Waidelich Rumors | Pet Rory | Skatepark Meeting | Holiday Bazaar | Ed Notes | Milkman Dave | Probation Officer | Thespians | SLAPPing KZYX | Noyo 65 | Transportation Survey | Volunteer Fal | Beerfest Tix | Christine Landing | Coast Hospital | Yesterday's Catch | Philly Spring | Old Rhodo | Trail Suit | Skeleton | Aloha Bound | Ice Soup | Prop 1 | Beacon Float | Meeting Giants | Quartet | Jivan Ditty | Deaf Joy | Othering | Ofrenda | DST Ending | Rollins Exit | Concert Poster | Feral Mood | Washing Machines | Living Rough | Polar Dreams | This Week | Iceberg | Brexit Minister | Vanity Plate | Ukraine | Winter Forest

A History of the AV Brewery

In 1974 a devastating fire occurred at the Wiese's Valley Inn completely destroying the bar and restaurant. This left a great vacancy in the town of Boonville. After the lot was cleaned of debris from…

An Open Letter to Dale Gieringer

(For many years I thought that people who took politics seriously could understand the difference between principled criticism and personal animosity. How wrong I was. In my whole long life I’ve met only three such…

Mendocino County Today: Saturday, Oct. 29, 2022

Mellow Weekend | Pumpkin Patch | Halloween Safety | Panther Volleyball | Pomo Art | Constable Patton | Test Scores | Happy Hours | Rising Tension | Hay Load | Marco Radio | Yesterday's Catch | Comedy Legal | Jerry Lee Lewis | Pelosi Attack | Holiday Rush | Who DePape | Deer Season | Blackless Series | Frequent Sex | Mike Davis | Art Liberation | Coming Midterms | Dylan Thomas | Alcoholic Need | Ukraine | Current Thing | Human Livestock | Self Respect | Peace Chorus | Trussed Up | Censorship Regime | Gone Bad

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