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Crazy Money

I first heard about “crazy money” when I showed up in Northern California and started living in the hills, another barefoot white middle-class hippie fresh off the highway from Indiana. It was called ATD then,…

Mendocino County Today: Monday, Jan. 3, 2022

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Flight 629: Explosion at the Drive-In

By and large, Americans have short memories. Few citizens could tell you why anyone should “Remember the Maine,” a propaganda-filled phrase that played out in Hearst and Pulitzer newspapers to lead the country into war.…

Christmas Memories I Wish I Didn’t Have

We all have wonderful Christmas memories of past holidays with family and friends. These are the thoughts and sentiments of the best of our times and the happiest of our days. But not today. Beautiful…

Mendocino County Today: Sunday, Jan. 2, 2022

Wind Rain | Trepidation | Rainfall Totals | Sanhedrin | New Year | Snow Road | Omicron Different | Equestrian | Millsite Cleanup | Ponds Map | Coast Hospital | Water Year | 150 Smiles | Resolution | Solar Reset | Noyo Boaters | Ed Notes | Yesterday's Catch | Solar Policy | Rockport Mill | Professional Wrestling | Hell Weather | Mediocrity | Big River | Geopolitics | Bodyguard | Unwanted Children | Foxfires | PUC+PGE | Barn | Congresswoman Greene | Dry Dock | Call Andy | Picnicking | Marco Radio | Happy Looting

First Settler Descendant: Bob ‘Chipmunk’ Glover

Bob Glover’s ancestors were true pioneers in the Euro-American settlement of Anderson Valley.  And the fact motivated his personal ambitions and worldview since his youth. After the 1849 Gold Rush seven Swiss-German families left their…

Ralph’s Wandering Days

Ralph Bostrom has been writing Letters to the Editor to the Anderson Valley Advertiser for years. Now in his 90s he’s an involuntary resident of a senior assisted living facility in Willits. For being an…

Mendocino County Today: Saturday, Jan. 1, 2022

Cold Sunny | Conga | Arrest Video | Hoak Ranch | 2021 Deaths | EMT Course | Pot-Admin Expansion | Crab Feed | Moorman's Decision | Noyo 1880 | Kelp Harvesting | Mouth Open | Yorkville Appeal | Albion 1904 | Apocalypse Eve | Afterparty | PV-Flow Requests | Yesterday's Catch | Eureka Is | Grammar Worksheet | Maxwell Prosecution | Cold Blood | Omicron OMG | Orientation | 2022 Prognostication | MacCallums | Denial & Complacency | Hoover Undercover | Marco Radio | Betty White | Happiest Possible | Shriner Seance

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