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Posts published in March 2021

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…

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…

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

DA History Series – Part IV: Doc Standley

Jeremiah “Doc” Standley was born August 20, 1845 in Andrew County, Missouri, the son of Harrison and Elizabeth Standley. When he was 8 years of…

Fishing With Chris Isbell

I moved to the Anderson Valley in the fall of 1971 and this fall it will be 50 years I have lived here. I don't…

Mendocino County Today: Saturday, March 20, 2021

Off/On | 7 New Cases | AV Vaccinations | Big Wave | Surge Protection | Yorkville BBQ | Doohan Doo-Dah | Paris Barricade | Ricky del Fiorentino | Corporate Cannabis | Russian Gulch | Stabber Arrested | 1975 A's | Ed Notes | Cleone Grocery | Panhorst Bridge | Streetscape Update | Duckhorn IPO | Yesterday's Catch | SF Art | Snyder Version | Water Wise | Marilize Legajuana | Dem Russians | Curry Jukes | Poets Echo | Hugh Thompson | Travel Lit | Capitalism's Flower | Biden Putin | Dream Gig | Fruit Blossoms | PA Agenda | Marco Radio | Protoplanet Vesta | Asteroid Flyby

Fred Hampton’s Chicago

After watching Judas and the Black Messiah, I called John Woodford for a reality check. In the summer of 1968 Woodford, then 27, was a…

Sam & Marguerite

It's time to get down to the biography of Sam and Marguerite Avery's life in Anderson Valley, 1946-77. In preparation I went back to my…

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