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1900 Oil well on Etter Ranch. I don’t have the photographer or any backstory. https://uploads.disquscdn.c…

Not quite not at all: ” According to Leo Etter, the first Ettersburg School was located near the largest madrone tree for miles around, referred to by local homesteaders as …

My family, the Machis, have been connected with the Etters since the 1940s. I’m not sure of all the relationships but Keith and Lorraine Etter owned the Shelter Cove Ranch …

This is a story of the best time in America.Interesting that native people are not mentioned at all.

In many urban areas in Peru, Ecuador, and Brazil, speed bumps are very common, including in major traffic zones leading to the heart of a city. While irritating, they definitely …

Get Duane Flatmo to make it pretty!

Yes yes yes, a parabola and other nonsense. Neither of these relevant in this discussion. Don’t try to sound vaguely smart; a poorly fitting suit looks horrible.

Run a red light? Speeding? Don’t write a ticket - take away their car and sell it.

“eye contact” has been proven, over and again, to be a myth.

When I was a young kid my Dad caught and cooked some for dinner one night and told us kids it was chicken. We took off to go play after …

Because drivers think eureka is the bay area and all in a rush to the next red light plus the unhoused think they can just cross anywhere slow down and …

Make sure you look both ways when crossing them one way streets…

An excellent and extremely detailed deep dive into recent local history! This matches very well with what I remember reading about the Etter’s ag experimentation site but fills in the …

I’d settle for “armadillo” bollards on H and I.

“Carbon makes up roughly 40% to 50% of the dry weight of the food we eat, since our diet consists almost entirely of organic molecules like carbohydrates, fats, and proteins.”

Isn’t 2009 right around when the iPhone was introduced?

Nah; they’re h u g e, expensive, and make people walk an extra tenth of a mile to cross the street, just so drivers don’t have to drive safely; no …

A bypass would be nice but it’s not happening, at least not in our lifetimes; we need to work with what we have.

Protected lanes wouldn’t work there, as they’re residential neighborhoods with lots of driveways, but I totally agree with narrowed lanes. And bringing 4th & 5th to civilized a size.

Don’t forget 4th/5th at Myrtle by the Samoa Bridge; that’s where I was almost hit.

Reduce speed for conditions?

While considered by some as good table fare, leopard sharks usually have very high levels of methylmercury and should be avoided, especially by children or women of child-bearing age. Recent …

This spot is pretty far down from where others have died. Tagmeyers is off of 96, a spot that non-locals call ‘devils elbow’ . A lovely swim hole but it …

The level of media literacy and critical thinking driving the moral panic around AI is the same level that drives MAGAts’ ideas about brown people, and it comes from the …

Why does it seem suspicious to me….and not thee?

I have an extreme idea, why don’t we try having laws equally applied across all classes, peasants, owners, AND the epstien class..

This fish has a sporty coat. Elasmobranchs are incredible and you have to tip your hat to our modern versions sticking with the cartilaginous skeleton scheme all the way back …