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Rosie Radiator: NorCal Tap Dance Guru, Dead at 78

We were saddened to hear of the death last week of the northcoast’s most famous tap dancer “Rosie Radiator” (aka Bess Bair) at the age of 78 in Florida where she had retired for family…

County Notes

We are now reliably informed that the Veterans Service Office really is moving back to their original office at the cottage on Observatory Avenue where they were prior to January, although we still haven’t heard…

A Mother’s Beheading Shakes Little River

Little River, Mendocino County — The night before the shooting and killing and roaring flames changed everything, Asahn Smith got a text from a friend he hadn’t spoken with in years. Fletcher Pinkham, his old…

County Notes: Mendo’s Looming Mental Health Staffing Crisis

Sheriff Kendall told the ‘Like It Or Not’ podcast dudes in Ukiah recently that he will need an additional ten uniformed officers (and probably a few more non-uniformed) to staff the new “Mental Health Wing”…

The Kendall Family Saga, Part II

The Kendall family settlers in Anderson Valley, founders of Kendall City (soon subsequently renamed Boonville) descended from English, Scots, Irish and perhaps Spanish ancestors. Y.I. Kendall’s wife Flavilla (Fanny) Burnham Kendall was Scots-English (her first…

Daylight Stretching Time

Short winter days bumming you out? Try Daylight Stretching Time (DST), the newest, grooviest way to beat the darkness. Say you live near the latitude of Seattle, where December sunrise/sunset is roughly 8am/4pm. That 8am…

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