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Posts published in December 2020

Mendocino County Today: December 4, 2020

Weak Front | 14 Cases | Mayor Orozco | FB 1858 | Recent Changes | Pressed Flora | Dreaded Diphtheria | Navarro River | Lit Poetry | Trestle Bridge | Coate Christmas | Preston House | Virtual Cannabis | Creek Log | Fire FEMA | Spotted Eel | Ed Notes | Bull Elk | Covelo Considered | Corporal Hernandez | Schoolhouse Museum | 128 Switchbacks | Yesterday's Catch | Identity Politics | Gibson 68 | London Laundry | Food Line | Ike's Ambition | Team America Teammates | Ravens Outbreak | All Yours | Tire Kill | Azbill Sykes | Orgasm Cult | Tokyo Station

More Valley Vistas

Down at the Deep End the Valley's vistas become more telescopic as the flatland gives way to rolling hills, tightening ridges framing the more evident…

Unclogging the Courts

Last week the New Yorker posted an article that credited Kamala Harris for blazing the trail for today's  "progressive" district attorneys. In a letter that won't…

Mendocino County Today: December 3, 2020

Persistent Ridge | 25 Cases | Comment Guidelines | Laughlin Bears | Surge Plan | Wendling Lumber | Testing Info | Log Train | Firework Instead | Glen Bair | Blankets Needed | December Thursdays | Road Building | Oh Covelo | Near Mendocino | Root Cause | Frolic Wreck | Embezzler Pleads | Felonious Donuts | Domestic Violence | Logging | Strong-arm Stickel | Angry Mob | Ukiah Plan | Containers Overboard | SF 62 | Warrant White | Yesterday's Catch | Parole Commissioners | Delgado Drug | Don Con | Iceberg | Clearlake Horrible | Thanksgiving Dinners | Chicken Motives | Lasting Issues

Albion River Water

Until the recent mild rains of November the Albion River had been dry for months. Of course, in the few miles of tidewater one could…

A Brief History of Highway 128

In the early days quite some time before Henry Ford or the Wright Brothers perfected their inventions, transportation throughout this part of the country was…

Mendocino County Today: December 2, 2020

High Pressure | 38 New Cases | Six Charged | Post Quake | Mother & Child Missing | Crawler Crane | Museum Events | Comptche | Cursed Valley | Engaging Storyteller | Loggers & Yarders | Apple Syrup | Concert Goers | Wild Ride | Yesterday's Catch | Co-Prez | Ab Diving | Bad Newspapers | Drake Boulevard | Swedish Hell | Despising Bernie | Playtime 2020 | Moving Rocks | Yelp Guy | Local Journalism | Drug Pusher | Unhinged Craziness

‘Shelter Cove is My New Assignment’

Not quite a year since retiring after 13 years as sheriff of Mendocino County, Tom Allman announced via Facebook on Wednesday that he’ll be rejoining the ranks…

Letters (December 2, 2020)

Some years ago I heard a radio show that was astounding! Interviews with two separate doctors (there may have been more, I can’t remember) who each said that a number of babies they had delivered were born hermaphrodites...

When Murphy Meets the Covid Vaccine

What could possibly go wrong with the massive covid vaccination rollout, and buncha What Ifs? Let’s be optimistic and assume that the vaccinations — how…

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