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Posts published in March 2018

Valley People (March 21, 2018)

LAST WEEK, Maya Kehl, a student at Anderson Valley High School, alerted us that she and her classmates would be joining a national student walkout to honor the 17 young people murdered in Florida. “It will start at 10:00 and last 17 minutes,” she said.

Bird’s Eye View (March 21, 2018)

“Awesome” is overused, and frequently misused in many cases. But it clearly applies Valley’s oldest resident, Freda Fox, who turns 100 on Monday, March 26. Freda was born in 1918 in Youngstown, Ohio. Following a…

Mendocino County Today: Wednesday, March 21, 2018

Cold Front;
Water Forebearance;
Little Dog;
Awful Day;
Book Reactions;
Ed Notes;
Ocean Cloud;
Willis Tucker;
Spring Flowers;
Unhealthiest County;
Mendo Poetry;
Yesterday's Catch;
Plastic Pots;
Onomatopoeian Empire;
Eternal Rest;
Goofy Star;
Costco Drivers;
Foreign Agents;
County Vacancies

County Budget Notes

PROPERTY, SALES AND THE BED TAX are all up from last year. They’ve been steadily increasing since the Great Recession in 2009. That’s probably why official Mendo doesn’t seem worried about a number of significant budget…

Mr. Bones’s Guns

Mr. Bones, aka Jonathan James Wisbey, is a Youtube video producer at Mr. 420 Wholesalers. He has posted a series of videos entitled Diary of a Domestic Terrorist featuring a masked sleuth called Mr. Bones,…

Class K Deadline Looms

Heads up Mendocino County. The onslaught on Class K (the more relaxed building standards for owner built limited density rural dwellings) is well on its way and won't stop now. The spirit and intent of…

Instant Karma

Since beginning this prison term back in 2011, I have been about 99% convinced that I'd never see its end, that sometime over its interminable course the karmic wheel would spin around and call my…

Some Crimes Never End

Criminal trials for the most part follow a well-established trajectory. First there’s the arrest, then the arraignment, then the detention arrangements, then the pre-trial motions, then jury selection, then the trial itself, and then, finally,…

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