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Posts published in October 2018

Pig Tales

“When pigs fly,” is a centuries old adynaton, insinuating the obvious impossibility of a statement. However, pigs have flown. The first pig to fly was actually a piglet, proving once again that the youth of…

Hardly Strictly Peace Movement

The Times' CIA correspondent David Sanger reported Oct. 7 that Gen. William Westmoreland had requested "tactical" nuclear weapons to be shipped to Vietnam in February, 1968 for use in the event that US troops were…

Jerry Philbrick

My curiosity finally got the best of me. After reading Comptche resident Jerry Philbrick’s almost weekly letters to the AVA I just had to meet him. How many people around here sign their letters with…

Valley People (Oct. 17, 2018)

SEEMS LIKE ONLY yesterday, as us nostalgics say, that marijuana was a furtive, often harrowing way to earn one's way, what with law enforcement's Campaign Against Marijuana Production, home invaders and old fashioned thieves always…

Patterson Cashes In

City Of Fort Bragg Settles CVRA Claim — The City, the Coast Committee for Responsive Representation (Committee) and Jacob Patterson executed a Settlement Agreement late on October 10, 2018. The Committee rescinded its May 24th…

BOS Weed Meeting

[Nov 16] The Board of Supervisors will hold a cannabis meeting on November 16, 2018, to discuss the proposed cannabis overlay and Cannabis Ad Hoc recommendations regarding the Cannabis Cultivation Ordinance. Mendocino County has engaged…

Letters (Oct. 17, 2018)

Here we go again. Another shut down by MRC. As if it wasn't bad enough for them to not take logs for a week right in the middle of September. But now they are not accepting logs the rest of the logging season which is approximately 4-5 weeks.

Full Closure of Route 175

[Nov 13] Full Closure of Route 175, Tuesday, November 13, 7 am to 8 pm, from one mile west of Buckman Drive to Grants Quarry in Lake County. Full closure of Route 175 is needed…

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