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Posts published in September 2020

Glass Fire Updates

[PD] North Bay Air Quality Expected To Reach Unhealthy Levels As Winds Shift Shifting winds have begun blowing smoke from the Glass fire back over the North Bay, which could worsen already dismal local air…

Letters (September 30, 2020)

Well Folks, here we are at the proverbial “Catch 22.” At last count, 15 businesses in Mendocino have closed due to Covid and there are another 10 on the brink of collapse

A Tale of Two Meetings

As reported bright and early Wednesday morning by Mark Scaramella, on Tuesday, September 22 (and in this week’s Supervisors report), the Mendocino County Board of Supervisors approved the expenditure of approximately $10.6 million of Project…

The Laytonville-Pot Home Invasion

This past weekend there was a home invasion in the northern Laytonville area that stretched over several days starting on last Thursday, Sept. 17. The MCSO press release that’s been published does a good job…

Supes Approve the Impossible

Item 6b on last Tuesday’s Supervisors Agenda was one of the most convoluted items we’ve ever seen on any Mendo Board meeting agenda: “Discussion and Possible Action Including Direction to Staff on Cannabis Cultivation Permitting…

Paul ‘Scoop’ McCarthy, RIP

In an item just before noon last Friday on Mendocino Sports Plus, the ubiquitous Elk-based news outlet with a small army of devoted followers on its ever-streaming Facebook platform, founder and Editor Paul McCarthy wrote…

The Gaskill School

As one travels east from the town of Boonville on Highway 128 for about 17 miles at milemarker 46 there stands a little abandoned schoolhouse that is slowly melting to the ground. This little schoolhouse…

A Step Beyond ‘Banned Books Week’

Just in time and in the right place Banned Books Week is here, and let’s expand its scope to include the trend opposing free speech in America. Every year the Mendocino Book Company joins a…

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