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Posts published in December 2020

Covid Outbreak at Mendo Jail

At least 51 inmates and corrections staff at the Mendocino County Jail have now tested positive for COVID-19 in the first widespread outbreak at the jail, according to the Mendocino County Sheriff’s Office. The newly…

Mendocino County Today: December 31, 2020

Cloudy Dry | 46 Cases | Missing Person | Vaccination Clinics | Old Structure | Virus Variant | Sea Bar | Toy Distribution | Passionate Dissent | Frontyard Sheep | Miss Confidentiality | Pacific Coast | Ed Notes | Strange Trunks | Streetscape Update | Lumber Port | Makahiki | Trump Legacy | Young Ossoff | Fearsomely Alike | Coastal Arches | Background Inequality | Seastacks | Impure History | Redwood Lightshow | Pathological Accumulation | Silent Night | Tactical Weapon | Nonlinear Civilization | Corktop Report | Found Object

Christmas 1918

Christmas fell on a Wednesday in 1918. Letters were still arriving in Mendocino from men who had fought the War to End All Wars. Though the armistice had been signed a month and a half…

The Ghetto Expert

A put-down of George Butterworth, the head of gang-related prosecutions during Terence Hallinan's eight years as San Francisco District Attorney, drew a response from AVA reader Jim Miller, a retired SFPD officer. He wrote that…

Mendocino County Today: December 30, 2020

Afternoon Rain | 16 Cases | Greg Grantham | Grey Fox Rd | Mullis Memories | Xmas Lights | Weed County | Mannix Building | Ed Notes | Ferndale Hate | Local Author | Dream Winners | Beautiful Poetry | Pike Attack | Young Pharmacist | Yesterday's Catch | Unhappy Words | Awesome Dude | Old Structures | Found Lyrics | Carine's | Various Columnists | Near Dimmick | Toney Towns | Palace Hotel | Profoundly Dysfunctional | Grey Whale Inn | Microwave Wanted | Mendo House | Payback Time | Railway Barn | Fire Regs | Suck King | Killing Candida | Vanilla ISIS | Expropriating Hag | Scare Word | Cosmetic Cabinet | Generational Difference | Stop Drilling | Nothing TV | Making Leonora | Firing Squad | Dog Poop | Found Object

Letters (December 30, 2020)

Challenges with this year’s outdoor crop. It's over-bred for one. The industry has been operating on theoretical THC for some years now...

Supervisor McCowen Exits without a Single Whereas

We would be remiss if we didn’t acknowledge Supervisor John McCowen’s final board meeting on December 15, 2020. Appearing via zoom at the Tuesday Board meeting, Mendo’s alleged state reps, Senator Mike McGuire and Assemblyman…

Off the Record (December 30, 2020)

RECEIVED an excited e-mail about last week’s celestial events from the vivid Tom Cahill, formerly of Fort Bragg, presently in self-imposed exile in France. “I've been waiting for this all my life!” he said, “Jupiter and…

The Deadly Cost of Misbehavior

The California Dept. of Public Health (CDPH) now warns that “disastrous consequences” will occur without a change in how we celebrate the winter holidays, and California will experience a surge on top of a surge…

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