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Eradication & Cultivation

The title probably caught your eye thinking this would be a great story about Cannabis!! Haha. This is actually a perspective on the eradication of outdated ideas about mental illness, addiction & homelessness and the…

The Christening of the MV Mendocino [September 2001]

Things were about as exciting as they get in Mendoland on Friday, July 20th, 2001, when the MV Mendocino was officially christened at Noyo Harbor in Fort Bragg. A band played, people cheered, Mendo poobahs…

The Fashauer Family In The Valley

I met Anne Fashauer at Mosswood on a wet Saturday last month for morning coffee and ancestors story-telling.  We consumed about two hours of her recollections, along with a political discussion about real estate commission…

Stop to Shop at the Rock Stop

You’ve all driven past it, that intriguing shop at the old Floodgate building in Philo on the 128, a couple miles east of the Navarro Store. It was always the dinosaur statue in the front…

County Agenda Notes

A Measure B Repayment Plan? Item 4b on next Tuesday’s Board agenda is “Discussion and Possible Action Including Direction to Staff Regarding the Proposed Loan Repayment Plan for Funds Borrowed Against Measure B Fund as…

Kate Coleman, Who Documented the Bay Area Counterculture, Dies at 81

She wrote about politics and the patriarchy as a left-wing writer, then alienated her compatriots with exposés critical of the Black Panthers and the environmental movement. Kate Coleman, an iconoclastic Bay Area journalist who began…

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