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Posts published by “Mark Scaramella”

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County Budget Notes

It seems to have finally dawned on the Supervisors that blaming the Auditor time and again for their own failures and misperceptions about the County budget not only looks bad but won’t do anything to…

County Notes: Trevor Mockel’s Devotion To Public Service

Recently, a youngish man named Trevor Mockel, age 32, from Redwood Valley, announced his candidacy for Mendocino County First District Supervisor (representing Redwood Valley, Potter Valley and the Hopland area). His announcement was accompanied by…

County Notes: Is Potter Valley About To ‘Go Dry’?

Lame duck 72-year old Supervisor Glenn McGourty doesn’t get excited about much these days. In fact, the only subject that still energizes him is water for grapes. So we were not surprised that he sounded…

County Notes: Carmel Angelo’s Biggest Time Bomb

Mendocino County bought the abandoned nursing home on Whitmore Lane south of Ukiah in 2020 using federal covid money in the early stages of the pandemic to use as a quarantine building for people who…

Grape Growers Grab Gobs of Water During Drought

At the end of a record-setting three-year drought from 2020 to 2022, the Mendocino Wine industry managed to produce a comparative record amount of grapes in 2022, almost 62,000 tons, 30% more than the previous…

County Notes: Look In The Mirror, Supervisor McGourty

(Annotating Supervisor Glenn McGourty’s Supervisor’s Report for next week’s board meeting…) “Budget Ad Hoc Committee: Supervisor Williams and I serve on the Budget Ad Hoc committee and attended all the department meetings to discuss proposed…

Biloxi Days: The Great Parachute Scam

Late one afternoon I got a call from a fellow squadron commander over on the training side of Keesler Air Force Base when I was stationed there in 1970. This was unusual. Our aircraft maintenance…

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