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Posts published in April 2021

The Newmans of Comptche’s Keene Summit

Local history explorations often start with something as simple as a piece of paper. Walking into the Comptche store recently owner Belinda Pollack handed me…

Mendocino County Today: Saturday, April 3, 2021

Cloudy Cool | 2 New Cases | Yorkville BBQ | 1950 Cloverdale | Phase 3 | Smith Story | Murray Jailed | Dusky Hills | Ed Notes | Morning Chase | Goldeneye Gig | Political Hypocrisy | Streetscape Update | Yesterday's Catch | Guerneville 1910 | Wetback Stories | Skeleton Lineup | Counting Coup | Avoidable Pain | PA Meeting | First Lowrider | EV Power | Leaning Anarchy | USA Last | Mighty Ira | California Map | Marco Radio | Pomo Indians | Paradigm Failure | Rebel Education

Lucky Claud

As the stock market was rising to ever-higher heights in the summer of 1929, Claud Cockburn got assigned by The Times to its New York…

Mendocino County Today: Friday, April 2, 2021

Mild Dry | No New Cases | Quick Response | Mental Help | Smacking Fiddleheads | Easter Sweets | Hentroversy | KOZT | Family Demise | Asti | Government Committee | Grin Reaper | Ed Notes | Fordplow | Texan Trash | Swimsuit Measurer | Remember Goliad | Phase 3 | Cloverdale Hunters | FERC Concession | Weeding Weeders | Yesterday's Catch | Sacajawea Search | International Brigade | Conservative Joe | Beer March | Can Do | Major Character | Wheelmen | Branch Rickey | First KO | La Llorona | Mr. Met | Late MLK | Mummy Vendor | Voodoo Econ | Kolling Family | Eel Zoom | 25% Complete | Eminent Housing | Hue 1968 | Manifest Dismantling | Boomboxer

Mendocino Outlaws Backstory

The saga of John F. Wheeler did not come to an end when Chester Ford deposited him in the county jail at Ukiah. The rest…

Marijuana Boom & Bust (April 29, 2010)

Marijuana was by no means the first boom crop to delight my home county of Humboldt, here in Northern California, five hours drive from San…

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