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Posts published in December 2020

Polliwog Eggs and a Duck

“Just before light… darkness, impenetrable.” So Aunt Mae would say, always placing the adjective at the tail end. I stayed with Aunt Mae and Uncle Carl when my sister was sick in the head. I'd…

Covid Outbreak at Mendo County Jail

A corrections Deputy employed at the Mendocino County Jail had been off work with an illness. Per policy the deputy received testing for COVID-19. On Saturday December 19, 2020 the Corrections Deputy reported to Jail…

Mendocino County Today: December 23, 2020

Sunny Day | 36 New Cases | Christmas Cookies | Indian Creek | Ed Notes | Philo 2001 | Grand Conjunction | Tebbutts Backyard | Country House | Yesterday's Catch | Greenwood Ridge | British Bumblers | Vaccination Line | Unstimulus | Kirby Hall | Innocence Project | No Sense | Knicks Again | Media Defamation | $600 Cake | Holiday Train | Thin Slice | Not Reality | Diversity Training | Sleepy Dems | Globetrotters v Generals | Second Coming | Baby Cake | Slander Bales | REO Speedwagons | Thomas Hayfield | Made This

Letters (December 23, 2020)

I listened in on the Mendocino County Fair Board meeting, held by telephone, on the evening of Dec. 14th, and I was astonished to hear most of the Board oppose yet another chance to serve the Anderson Valley Community...

Mendo’s Looming Mass Casualty Disaster

According to the National Institutes of Health, “A mass casualty incident (MCI) is defined as ‘an event that overwhelms the local healthcare system, where the number of casualties vastly exceeds the local resources and capabilities…

Off the Record (December 23, 2020)

IDIOCY MARCHES ON: The San Francisco School Board has decided that Lincoln High School must be re-named. Abraham Lincoln, you see, has been determined by these historical illiterates as unworthy because “the majority of his…

Disaster Prep & Wastewater Planning

Learning that the County expects to receive over $22 million in PG&E settlement money, and that the County intends to use the windfall cash primarily for  disaster recovery and preparation, the Anderson Valley Community Services…

Valley People (December 23, 2020)

IN LOCAL COVID NEWS, AV Fire Chief Andres Avila told the Board that 30 of the 42 active volunteers in the Department plan to take the covid vaccine as soon as it’s available. SUPERVISOR WILLIAMS:…

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