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Posts published in March 2021

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…

Mendocino County Today: Thursday, March 4, 2021

South Winds | 1 New Case | Meaningful Stats | Boonville Testing | FFA Winners | EDD Complaint | Ed Notes | Red Summer | Pennyroyal Farm | Methy Couple | Race Riots | Prickly Librarian | Chicago 1919 | Streetscape Update | Yesterday's Catch | Missouri Wine | Beanie Wienie | Homeless Crisis | Oxy Museum | Sussex Scandals | Earth First | Jack & Rock | Social Murder | Birthday Surprise | Courthouse Screeners | Volunteer Correspondent | Cowboy Impression | Office Manager | Radio Reading | Eternal Subjection | Screen Schooling | American Spirit | UkiaHaiku Festival | Texas Mess | Driftwood Horse | Atlanta Dream | Owl Spread | Redistricting California

Ferlinghetti, R.I.P.

It was a cold early Summer night in 1963, when I first set foot in City Lights, the now legendary bookstore.  Much has been made since of how unusual City Lights, then ten yers old,…

County Notes (March 3, 2021)

CEO Steers Law Enforcement Funding To Teen Court, aka Guess Who? An obscure grant application became a veiled source of controversy on Tuesday when Sheriff Matt Kendall took to “public expression” at the beginning of…

Mendocino County Today: Wednesday, March 3, 2021

Dry Day | 5 New Cases | 1B Begins | Plum Blossoms | Big Drop | Stone Kirk | Covid Variants | Life Lessons | Genevieve Alexander | Boom Rig | Willits PD | Idea Exchange | Mail Thief | First Look | Standard Budget | Ed Notes | Yesterday's Catch | American Dino | MAGA Nightmare | Dreamkillers | Man Shaming | Direct Confrontation | Loudest Voice | In Just | Sugaring Season | Stop Reading | Whale Watching | Tango Concert | To Daffodils | Economic Con | Capitalistic Greed | Perugate | Found Object

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