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Posts published in “Day: October 3, 2018

Gangbusters

Born and raised in Mendocino County, Mendocino County Detective Sergeant Luis Espinoza has spent the last eight years in local law enforcement, most recently in…

A Preliminary Assessment of the November Election

(AVA’s current preferences are in bold type — subject to change.)

Supervisors:

Pinches because he's frugal, creative, truly independent.

Williams, although so far it's unclear why he wants to be a supervisor beyond the usual lib platitudes.

Finding A Home For History

Primary resources, in a historian’s world, are original materials upon which researchers can study to begin writing books or articles about any person or subject.…

Imaginary Monsters & The Uses Of Chaos

The Kavanaugh hearing underscored another eerie condition in contemporary USA life that offers clues about the combined social, economic, and political collapse that I call The…

Bollocks to Brexit: The Plumber Sings

Lambeth, London — That Frank Sinatra’s recording of “Who Wants to be a Millionaire” and Bobby Darin’s “Splish Splash I was Takin’ a Bath” are both…

Mendocino County Today: Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2018

Raises Approved;
Rotten Friend;
Little Dog;
Shelter Delays;
Code Enforcement;
Bulldog Pinches;
Bookstore Change;
Legal Growers;
Yesterday's Catch;
Brothers Trimm;
2020 Dems;
Cry Poor;
Acceptable Opinion;
Grammer Returns;
Ripening Quince;
Gavin Rail;
Not Interested;
Housing Homeless;
Meetings Canceled;
Imagine;
Statue Debate;
Bigfoot Babe;
Canillar Opening

County Notes (Oct. 3, 2018)

FOUR (COUNT ‘EM) AUTOMATIC PAY RAISES FOR CEO Carmel Angelo have been put on next Tuesday’s consent calendar by the beneficiary herself. Consent Calendar Item…

A Willits Business Dinner

Going back a few weeks to the preliminary hearing for the three defendants from Oakland accused of a Willits home invasion robbery early last July…

Off the Record (Oct. 3, 2018)

THE MIGHTY AVA recommends these three candidates for the Coast Hospital Board — Jessica Grinberg, John Redding, Karen Arnold. If Coast can be saved as the great little community-owned hospital it has been for many years, this trio will go a long way to saving it.

Valley People (Oct. 3, 2018)

AV FOOTBALL, 1935, Norm Clow writes: “In view of the loss of football at AV and around the county as you wrote in last week’s Valley People, for historical perspective here’s a yearbook photo of the first AVUHS football team, in the Fall of 1935. Oddly enough, that seems to have been a one-time event for several years, as there’s no further yearbook record of football until the 1947-48 school year, from whence it lumbered on for seventy years. And, yes, it’s a shame folks otherwise won’t get to see Round Valley in the autumn. You and I made the trip together more than once, and it was well worth the long drive.”

Second Dwelling Workshop

[Oct 25] If you own property, this is a great workshop to learn how to add a second unit for extra income or for family…

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