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Posts published in March 2021

Mendocino County Today: Sunday, March 28, 2021

Warm Day | Jennifer Adrift | Pet Hulk | Troubled Torch | Job Interview | Beer Park | Pledge Leaders | Wendling Mill | PA Testing | Ever Stuck | Grand Jurors | Daisies | Cannabis Status | Water Crisis | Freedom Cafe | Coast Cinema | Tattoo Tuttle | Wildlife Management | Ed Notes | Smells Fear | Border Angels | Ketchup Bees | Archibald Yell | Choctaw Donation | Dream Gig | Yesterday's Catch | Large Trouble | Louisville Lunch | Nut Water | Gundemic | Hungry Lawyers | Petrolia Highway | Censorship Alternatives | Beyond Illusion | Republican Danger | Weaponized Hell

The Autobiography of Claud Cockburn

Claud Cockburn —father of Alexander, Andrew, and Patrick, three brilliant journalists— was the original model. In 1967 his three volumes of autobiography were consolidated and published by Penguin as I Claud... It's hard to find a copy,…

Mendocino County Today: Saturday, March 27, 2021

High Pressure | 4 New Cases | Contagious Variants | Caspar Sunset | Donate | Burying Harrison | Pomo Rancheria | True BS | Patrol Presence | FB Rez | Possible Donor | Streetscape Update | Yesterday's Catch | Border Life | Intake Tower | Bostrodamus | Cash Only | Redwood Slice | Frosted Microchip | Sweet Ketchup | Killer Cartoons | Dry Times | Le Pew | Radioactive Gizmos | Larry McMurtry | New Sneakers | Coast Dems | Road Crossing | Climate Zoom | 1918 Masks | We Wait | Immigration Solution | New Birds | National Crime | Well Armed | Marco Radio | Money Overrated | Jury Duty | Republican Plan | Newsom Defenders | Car Regulation | Joe 24

The Floodgate Store

As I rambled along in my previous Floodgate stories articles, little vignettes would illuminate themselves in dusty corners of the cerebral warehouse where the larger memories were stored so many years ago. Some of them…

Mendocino County Today: Friday, March 26, 2021

North Winds | 3 New Cases | Variants Here | Mountain Lion | Yorkville Burgers | Munthers 1920 | Headstone Mysteries | Amerigun | CEO Malfeasance | Comptche Newmans | Flu Masks | Vaccine Eligibility | Armistice Parade | Commercial Cannabis | Test Questions | Ed Notes | Omg Wtf | Wildfire Assistance | Media Lift | Police Reports | Coast Poppies | Yesterday's Catch | Fort Seward | AR Ban | Assault Weapons | Unhoused People | Psychoactive Plants | Wild Strawberry | Cheap Labor | Fool Cruz | ORV Ban | Waterwheel | Quake Faults

Wheeler’s Early Life and Ford’s Secret

On October 15, 1879, four gunmen ambushed a constable's posse in the woods east of Mendocino. Two civilian members of the posse were killed and a third wounded. Evidence at the killers' camp led to…

Mendocino County Today: Thursday, March 25, 2021

Light Showers | 2 New Cases | Vaccine Supply | Smite Button | Unconscious Husband | John Harrison | Comptche Youth | Willits Library | Cape Mendocino | Highway Delays | Mashed Cats | Since 1980 | Cannabis Ordinance | Mindless Consumerism | Ed Notes | Sexual Abuse | Orr Springs Road | Mill Bend | Point Bonita | Albion THP | Calla Lilies | Trail-a-Thon | Yesterday's Catch | Mexican Border | Guernsey Milk | Dave Bollinger | Unfair System | Elgin Baylor | Firearmed | Sad Day | New Low | Tivoli 1880 | Federal Executions | Point Reyes | American Teacher | Reporter's Alert | Gun Nation

County Notes (March 24, 2021)

Supervisor Williams: “’In November 2017, Measure B passed with 85% in favor of taxing ourselves to generate tens of millions to support mental health services. The bulk of money was intended to “Provide for assistance…

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