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Posts published in April 2020

The Presidio Mutiny

The event that came to be called “The Presidio Mutiny” was a non-violent sit-down in the stockade yard by 27 prisoners to protest stockade conditions and the fatal shooting three days earlier of a fellow…

The Mirene’s Last Ride (1975)

I first saw her early one morning looking down from the Noyo Bridge in Fort Bragg, California. I was on my way to town and it stopped me in my tracks. I’d never seen such…

Book Review of “Home Baked”

Home Baked: My Mom, Marijuana, And The Stoning Of San Francisco by Alia Volz Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; 435 pages; April 20, 2020; $27 Poet George Sterling called San Francisco “the cool grey city of love.”…

Surveillance Testing Results

Last Wednesday, April 22nd, Mendocino County, Mendocino Coast Clinics, Coastal Street Medicine, Mendocino Coast Hospitality Center and the City of Fort Bragg collaborated to launch community surveillance testing for COVID-19. Surveillance testing is used to…

About COVID Testing

There are two different types of tests for COVID-19 caused by a coronavirus named CoV-SARS-2.  These tests either use something called PCR to detect the genetic material of the virus by swabbing either the nose…

Comptche BBQ Cancelled

Dear Friends, Family and Comptche Community, Due to the uncertainty of Covid-19 spread and in the interest of public safety the Comptche Volunteer Fire Department is cancelling our annual Father’s Day Chicken BBQ for 2020.…

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