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Posts published in March 2021

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 archives to find a copy of the local monthly newspaper,…

Mendocino County Today: Friday, March 19, 2021

Showers Diminish | 4 New Cases | BOS Agenda | Mo Thursdays | Stop Shortchanging | Turkey Tail | Whale Gulch | Quake Damage | Creek Dumping | Extended Hours | Del Fiorentino | Manila Battle | Seed Starting | 8th Graders | Goodbye Covid | Decent Living | James Mannon | Willits High | Ed Notes | Burlesque Girls | Opposing Expansion | Properly Socialized | Phase 3 | Yesterday's Catch | Little Sprouts | South Florida | Hunter Scum | Rifle Blessing | Brain Damage | Be Yourself | Bogus Claims | Nobody Left

Supes Hire Another Pot Manager

Based on experience and qualifications, it appears that the Supervisors have made a good choice in hiring Ms. Kristin Nevedal of Garberville, ground zero for the Northcoast's industry, as Mendo’s new Cannabis Program Manager. The…

Clarence Ford’s Ride with Dr. Wheeler

After Dr. John F. Wheeler had been arrested as the suspected ringleader of four other men who ambushed a constable's posse, killing two civilians, the dentist faced an arraignment. Under a second day of questioning,…

Mendocino County Today: Thursday, March 18, 2021

Cold Front | 7 New Cases | Tax Extension | School Reopening | Lauren's Fare | Highway Fatality | House Fire | Tsunami Test | Inmates Vaccinated | SF Mayhem | 70s Chicks | Phone Scam | Police Reports | Buncha Buddhas | Booster Runaround | Barajas Pleas | Chipped Pot | Beach Clean-up | Questionable Decisions | Ed Notes | Willits 1900 | Phase 3 | Spring Ahead | Vile Messages | Yesterday's Catch | Saint Ronnie | Truth Beauty | Huge Deal | Phone Service | Pretty Soon | Funeral Clothes | Trickle Up | Good Whistleblower | Benevolent Millionaire | Progress | Disorganized Left | Stand | Favorite Giants | Alley Cats | Hiaasen Goodbye

Fast & Loose: The Doohan Deal That Wasn’t

CONTRARY to last Tuesday's report out of Closed Session, the AVA has learned that the 18 parcels at 537 Parducci Road owned by the McGehee family are available and very much for sale. But not…

Read No Evil

With PC outrage on the rise over several children’s books by the newly “racist” Dr. Seuss, I called up the Ukiah library to see if Dr. Seuss’s head might be next on the guillotine of…

Mendocino County Today: Wednesday, March 17, 2021

Frosty Start | Blarney 1952 | 7 New Cases | Relaxing Restrictions | Paula Schulze | Poppies | Barn Tarts | Mental Hospital | B Stigma | GP Squirrel | Cannabis Zoom | Not Happy | Water Rights | Steak Out | Arena Pharmacy | Cloudy Lady | Tanguileg Plea | No Engagements | Ed Notes | Yesterday's Catch | FBI Fingerprints | Hubris Nemesis | Begin Boarding | Biden Time | Gangster Squad | Comic Reality | Unsafe Idiot | Medicare Disadvantage | Not Golfing | Marvelous Marvin | Old Havana | TV Depression | Chicago River | Recall Letter

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