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Pear Picking

I’ll tell you how it happened… I was working fruit that summer, moving from orchard to orchard, picking crops as they ripened: first apricots, then peaches, and I was picking pears when I fell in…

Mendocino County Today: Saturday, Jan. 8, 2022

Clearing | 4 New Cases | Gschwend Theft | Skunk House | Redbeard Interview | Senior Benefit | Lair Demolition | Tent Music | Mo Busy | Covid Test | Health Orders | Bicycle Club | Wildlife Intern | Harper's 1878 | Library Tax | Gay Marriage | Ed Notes | Yesterday's Catch | Bogus Stunt | Snow Bus | Water Supply | Fascism Rising | Compete Bezos | Log Chute | Planning Cancelled | Body Found | Nuzzling Cheney | Chess Match | Brash Comedy | Noyo 1922 | Marco Radio | Trapper | Exhausting Lunacies | Logging Op | Everybody Hang | Homer Wolfe | No Pardons | Main Street

Cache Creek Water Wars in Lake County

In this day and age wars are fought about water use because too many users want to draw on too small a supply. In this look at Lake County history it was the other way…

Fact-Checking the Ricardos

Because Hollywood screenwriter Aaron Sorkin keeps weaving across the double-yellow line between history and fiction, the literal-minded viewer can get disoriented. In his script for “Being the Ricardos,” Sorkin has Desi Arnaz angrily telling Lucille…

Table for 150 Please

Yes, I asked for a table for 150, actually for lunch. I was part of a group doing the serving. Let me explain. I belong to the Boosters group for the Elsie Allen High School…

Mendocino County Today: Friday, Jan. 7, 2022

Showers | 142 New Cases | Another Death | Mendo Vaxxed | Health Order | Mendocino 1865 | Student Testing | Camp 7 | Shields Observations | Begats | Curry Interview | Cleone Mill | Gathering Isms | Future Reduced | Deputy Day | Ma Beelzebub | Legal Mess | Friar Blanderfield | Skunk Takings | Jerry Quiet | Disappearing LCW | Mae Lyons | Ukiah Housing | Time Passing | Wastewater Gig | Ghost Storefront | Second Saturday | Yesterday's Catch | Esther Mocktails | Civil Warriors | Marin Rioter | Velvet Ropes | Sites Reservoir | Fiddle Busking | Near Dresden | 1,000 Times

A New Fort Bragg Hospital?

The Mendocino Coast is facing a crossroads decision about healthcare. That decision will be greatly impacted by fiscal realities and the input of people who read articles like this and let their opinions be known…

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