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Posts published in March 2021

First Dose Event, Ukiah, March 9

Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccine 1st Dose Event Sign-Up for March 9th This week’s COVID-19 vaccine 1st dose event has been scheduled. To register, visit the link below. On the day of the event, please arrive with…

Mendocino County Today: Sunday, March 7, 2021

Weak Weather | 3 New Cases | Smaller Counties | Dimmick Park | Relief Bill | Golden Spike | County Aid | Autocorrect Rabbit | PG&E Funds | Quakescape | Community Needs | Authors' Night | Chicks In | Goya's Greatest | Flying Carpets | Mendo Loggers | Budget Report | Yesterday's Catch | Street Physician | Mad Mask | Healthcare Industry | Myanmar Warning | Walking SF | No Quiet | 1952 Honeymoon

Nora Volkow, Neoprobe

Dr. Nora Volkow, the director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, is the great granddaughter of Leon Trotsky. She once told a mutual acquaintance that she still recalled the old man's jackets hanging in…

Mendocino County Today: Saturday, March 6, 2021

Mainly Dry | 5 New Cases | James Baskin | Navarro Sunlight | Vaccine Week | Economic Terms | Health Disparity | Question Everything | Vaccination Volunteers | Sports Break | AV Villaging | Willits Funeral | Navy Camp | Annoying Phrase | 770 Pounds | Superior Mirage | Ravitch Recall | Early Wheel | Disaster Settlement | Bigger Basket | Streetscape Update | Yesterday's Catch | Nikolai Gogol | Finocchio's 1958 | Butterfly Extinction | Southern Headline | Senseless Kindness | Easter Nightmare | Book Deletion | Painted Gate

The Friday Evening Jamborees

Last week’s Floodgate story mentioned that the gyppo logging company working for Masonite Corporation in the seventies, Shuster Enterprises (!), provided its crews with transportation to jobsite, important for those living on the Ukiah side…

Mendocino County Today: Friday, March 5, 2021

Rain & Snow | 7 New Cases | Yorkville BBQ | Navarro Estuary | Boonville Dinners | Booster Meditation | Seuss Controversy | Fort Bragging | Redwood Avenue | School Patrol | Car Thief | Prefab Houses | California Exodus | Vaxman | Favorite Columnists | Lake Storage | Samoa 1891 | Ed Notes | Yesterday's Catch | Larry Ferling | ICC Inquiry | Book Signing | C- USA | Pleasure Business | Bad Press | Water Shortages | Sun Gig | Professor Substack | Hegelian Dialectic | Joint Enterprise | Free Donziger

When Mars Crashed Near Boonville

This story is dedicated to AVA reader Richard Hargreaves of Redding, who is pushing 90 years of age and has vivid history memories. It’s how one story can lead to another, then another. Several weeks…

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