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The Sea Ranch Listserv Summary: Thanksgiving 2024 Edition
The community had a lot to be thankful for this week. One community member thanked everyone on the Listserv for suggesting that her friend not try to cross a flooded river. Several other members expressed gratitude to someone for sharing a photo of a rainbow. Another community member was thanked for sharing a fantasy. Yet…
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An Associate Professor of English At Mendocino College Asked Us To Ask You To Take Their Creative Writing Course in Point Arena This Fall
Dear Readers, We recently received a copy of a press release from Vincent Poturica, an associate professor of English at Mendocino College, and a friendly request to help promote a creative writing course being held at the Point Arena community library this fall. We have no idea why he reached out to us, since our…
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A Guest Contributor Shares Their Thoughts on the Great Pickleball Debate
We have a new guest contributor, Rev. Petroleum V Nasby, that has strong opinions about your strong opinions. We recently intercepted a private letter from the Reverend to his friend Aloysius about the omnipresent tennis-pickleball debate. Based on their accent, we suspect they originate from the forested hills surrounding Timber Cove. Or maybe they’re from…
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Wall Street Journal’s Barney Kilgore’s Wish Fulfilled: Sticking It to the Hippies at The Sea Ranch
Hello, The Sea Ranchers. I’m Barney Kilgore, former managing editor at The Wall Street Journal. I operated the Journal with two principles. The first is that businessmen across the country are quite alike. Their interests are the same, from the businessman in Portland, Oregon to the businessman in Portland, Maine. Second, businessmen are human beings…
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The Sea Ranch Listserv Summary: April 24th – May 4th, 2024
Several people received their 2024 board of directors election ballots, which are different from last year’s ballots. One member said the new ballots are yellow, and another described them as “dark yellow.” One candidate’s second statement was not included in the ballot packet, and another candidate’s second statement took up more pages than those of…
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The Sea Ranch Reader Editors Ordered Their PC-12 Just in the Nick of Time
The Sea Ranch Reader editorial staff is pleased to announce that we placed a 7-figure dollar deposit on a brand new Pilatus PC-12 on February 23rd, 2024–one day before The Sea Ranch Association Board of Directors placed a moratorium on any new large planes at The Sea Ranch. For those of you who that haven’t…
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The Sea Ranch Reader’s Guide to Guides to The Sea Ranch
Welcome to The Sea Ranch Reader’s Guide to Guides to The Sea Ranch. As The Sea Ranch’s popularity intensifies, thanks to The Sea Ranch Lodge’s PR efforts, so does the media attention. It’s too much for any reasonable visitor to sift through, and we’ve done so for you. These 53 guides are a repetitive collection…
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The Sea Ranch Reader Editors Review of the October 28th The Sea Ranch Association Board of Directors Meeting
You are so lucky that The Sea Ranch Reader editors watched all 7 hours of the 10/28/2023 board of directors meeting so that you never have to. Below is our scrupulous review. We have summarized the highlights, the lowlights, the fashions and cuisines of the meeting for your education. Please note that we didn’t take…
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The Sea Ranch Listserv Summary: September 21st(ish) Through October Something-Or-Another
The Sea Ranch Listserv brimmed with cooperative problem solving last week. A The Sea Ranch community member noticed the air was “smoke-colored” and offered to call 911 if that “makes sense.” Another The Sea Ranch homeowner announced they were paying $2.38 per gallon for propane. A second replied that they are paying $3.42 per gallon…
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Election 2023: Our Interview With The Aesthetically Concerned Coalition of Sea Ranchers (ACCSR)
The Sea Ranch Reader Editors are proud to introduce the second part in our 3 part series on this week’s 2023 The Sea Ranch Association Board of Directors election. In this second installment, we had the pleasure of interviewing an arrogant newcomer to The Sea Ranch that, paradoxically, is tired of all of these tacky…
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