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Posts published in March 2021

Letters (March 24, 2021)

Regarding the proposed change to the county zoning, which would allow rangeland to become weedland, I strongly request that you reject such a proposal.

Optimistic Future Despite Vaccine Supply Challenges

As much as one tries to provide consistent and accurate messaging throughout the past year of this pandemic, it remains a challenge because of sudden policy changes and lots of false starts and sudden stops…

Off the Record (March 24, 2021)

IT WOULD be interesting to learn where Mendo people get their covid information. Nothing against the Mendo medical apparatus, whose meandering directives are confusing and often contradictory, but I go to Fauci for the general…

Valley People (March 24, 2021)

DEATH ON 253. Sunday evening about 6:30, an 80-year-old man driving east towards Ukiah overturned his 2000 green Mazda Miata at mile marker 12.75 on the Ukiah side of the hill. The vehicle rolled once,…

Mendocino County Today: Tuesday, March 23, 2021

Warming | 2 New Cases | Trivial Zooming | Lemons Hiring | Line 3 | Abandoned Trailer | Rollover Fatality | Orator Amy | Watkins Book | Wildlife Friends | Last Unicorn | Supes Notes | Blame Greed | Getting Hotter | Grace Carpenter | Yesterday's Catch | 10% Weed | Ott's Diner | Elgin Baylor | Draft Noticers | Triple Murder | Blue Eyes | Unsafe Bounding | Literature | Lice Treatment | Elk 1974 | Intoxicated Rape | Comments | Troop Knitting | Liberal Hypocrite | Frazier's Left | Wokelisting | Trouble Brewing | Organic Hippies | Hunter Watching | Shadowland

Celebrated Mendo Sheriff Byrnes: Another View

The fascinating account of early 20th Century Mendocino Sheriff Ralph Byrnes in Zack Anderson and Deborah Silva’s history of the Herman Knaesche case brought some praise from several on-line readers, but not everyone in Mendocino…

Mendocino County Today: Monday, March 22, 2021

Cold Front | 10 New Cases | BOLO Brittany | 253 Fatality | Two Essays | Willits Days | Water Issues | Green Rushers | Sore Hands | Rodeo Cowboy | Supes Notes | Footlighters FB | Crime Stats | Ed Notes | Melbourne Pugilists | Vaccine Challenges | Yesterday's Catch | CBD Relief | Bobcat | Predatory Capitalism | Professor Uprising | Background Checks | Ninny Nonsense | Drunk Cure | Russia Disinfo | Travel Hog | Recycle | Superficial | Don't Go | Mexico Way | Sales King | Urine Guy | Wheelie | California Parks | Maniac | Rent Crisis | Opium Den | Marco Radio | Waterwheel

Having COVID, Twice

I’ve been going to work every day in person since May 2020, with the exception of the holidays breaks, and the two separate instances I had COVID – in November 2020, and the instance I’m…

Mendocino County Today: Sunday, March 21, 2021

Chilly Day | 2 New Cases | Half Rainfall | Pet Bella | Fiesta Friday | Patisserie Popup | Allegro | Rainbow Trout | Del Fiorentino | Boonville Derek | Springtime | Ed Notes | Round Valley | Willits Basketballers | Two Videos | Rodeo Wagon | Fentanyl Danger | Mr Sparky | Wildfire Risk | Cloverdale Stage | Ukiah Repaving | Police Awards | Yesterday's Catch | U.S. Meddling | Covid Concerns | Ethics Consult | Max & Primo | Wet Fourth | Willits Rodeo | Cancel Backfire | Bad Husband | Curiosity Cabinet | Fave Giants | Baseball Crowd | Crackpot Party | Valentine Pack | Fire Zones | Idyllic Oppression | Corporate Fascism

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