Frank Mendosa closed his saloon and opened the grocery on Lansing Street that still carries his name.
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McNear: Jensen Albertson’s Time and the Maiden took 7 years to carve
Albertson carved the sculpture from a single redwood log at his cabin in Big River Beach.
McNear: Finnish immigrant Joseph Granskog began Bay Front Garage, a fixture on Mendocino’s Main Street
War with Russia and the 1919 flu influenza stranded Joseph’s family in Finland.
McNear: Mendocino’s second annual Apple Fair attracted hundreds interested in agricultural developments
Speeches, races, a play joined familiar fair activities such as a livestock procession, pie judging and a nearly 18-inch apple.
McNear: Emma Barton Coombs had a magnetic presence that transmits through photos
A teacher by training, she was part of a foundational Little River family.
