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Posts published in April 2021

The Old Warrior

Seven years ago I moved into the off grid house I designed in the subdivision of 135 ten-acre lots called Rancho Navarro. Every morning I listen to songbirds while strolling among the redwoods. On April…

Mendocino County Today: Saturday, April 24, 2021

Cool Wet | 3 New Cases | Water Op | Closet Game | Dry California | Burn Permits | Mental BS | Table Setting | Insurance Cancellations | Jackson Action | AV Museum | Early Boonville | Streetscape Update | Drive-thru BBQ | Desalination Plant | Mucilage | Ed Notes | Transportation Talk | Elsie Allen | Yesterday's Catch | Allison Krause | Idle Chilango | Assault Weapon | Calm Killer | PA Agenda | Vaccinated? | Triple Zoom | Bad Girl | Slowing Covid | Smokestacks | National Dysfunction

Bach at Tax Time

J.S. Bach’s two musical confrontations with taxes span his career composing and performing cantatas. Nur jedem das Seine (To Each His Own!), BWV 163, dates from 1715, the year after Bach had been promoted from…

AV Grange Cleanup

Short notice for a little clean up around our local Grange Saturday April 24th from 10:00 to 1:00 p.m. If you have time bring your favorite tools so we can tidy up around our favorite…

Mendocino County Today: Friday, April 23, 2021

Wet Weekend | 2 New Cases | Yorkville BBQ | Guv Caitlyn | Stranded Fry | Library Hours | Cliche Police | Drought Wine | Buttermilk Junction | Mondale Lunch | Chico 1851 | Point Arena Oil | Roll Over | Photo Op Politics | Gary Webb | Kelley House Museum | Coast Dune | Ed Notes | Coffee Club | Hop Pickers | Mobile Pharmacist | Sausalito 1890 | Uncomposed Campos | Banker Shaw | Sleep Limit | Yesterday's Catch | Surreal Mexico | Economy Basics | Pointer Pete | Mt Tamalpais | Girl Fight | Pearl Harbor | Knafta Knees | Match Race

In Covelo, Harsh Realities Setting In

A long road paved with good intentions has brought Mendocino County to a hellish land of marijuana cultivation called Covelo.  Those good intentions were mostly lies, but well-intended ones. Maybe.  After all the years of…

Mendocino County Today: Thursday, April 22, 2021

Mild Dry | 3 New Cases | Drought Emergency | Cannabis Deliberations | Apple Blossoms | CEO Reporting | Wildman Caravan | Plant Sale | Jackson Action | Nowhere Nevada | Earth Event | Ed Notes | Grateful Graper | Revere Factcheck | Mountain Lions | Yesterday's Catch | Resting Places | Before Immigration | Verdict Edicts | Tokyo Olympics | Colorful Bluff | Federal Aid | Iris Daisy | Boom Doom | Nestle Ghoul | Depression Experience | First Golfer | Cop Culture

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