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Posts published in May 2021

Mendocino County Today: Monday, May 31, 2021

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Lake County Gen-Xer Apologizes

I was born in 1970. That makes me a textbook Generation X poster boy. My parents were honeymooning in Italy during Apollo XI’s landing on…

Mystery Launch in Mendo Bay

A drifting skiff and an attentive night watchman kicked off one of Mendocino County’s strangest maritime mysteries one quiet afternoon in 1921. Around 3:30 p.m.…

Paul Meilleur

RUSS EMAL WRITES: Sadly I report the death of a long time valley resident, neighbor, friend, Paul Meilleur. Paul was killed in an off road…

Mendocino County Today: Sunday, May 30, 2021

Inland Heat | Musical Gatherings | ATV Fatality | Ray's Resort | Pet Maggie | Corrections | AV Brewing | Lunar Eclipsing | Parking Validated | Ed Notes | Belt Recommendation | Bostrodamus | Braxton Bragg | Meth Men | F-Booking | Large Bust | JDSF Gathering | Missing Philbrick | Peleliu Marine | Emerald Cup | Yesterday's Catch | Infant Mortality | Germ Bags | Sandhill Trestle | Ocean Water | Two Thieves | Getting Old | People Nowadays | Southern Poverty | Ten Mile | Marco Radio

Gone But Not Forgotten — By Pop

Unlike the days following Osama bin Laden’s death on May 2nd, 2011, the tenth anniversary of his killing passed without hoopla in the American Homeland.…

A Place to Throw a Pot, and Up

Ukiah was among California cities hardest hit by the pottery craze of the 1970s.  Ukiah suffered crippling waves of pottery fevers until they lessened and…

Mendocino County Today: Saturday, May 29, 2021

Dry Days | 5 New Cases | Mendo Surge | Yorkville BBQ | ATV Fatality | Firesafe Meeting | FB Stagecoach | Mask Giveaway | PV First | CW Locomotive | Crisis Van | Assistant CEO | 408 Plants | Wine Tip | Fiddlehead Fees | Khadijah Mural | Tribal Grudges | US Capital | Ed Notes | FB Trestle | Streetscape Update | Yesterday's Catch | Model Balaclava | Newborn Welcome | Israeli Shield | Dark Eyes | Skunk Line | Human Cliche | Sun Worship | Pot Not | Charles Coward | White Boston | Fleas Fled | Felon Once | Transformational Joe | Free Choice | Stress Fractures

Cool Gray City of Love

No culture in the Sun? In France not long ago, a French professor of literature wore a bemused expression when I told him that California…

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