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Posts published in April 2021

The Trumpet Shall Sound

I live between a gorge and a graveyard. The gorge just to the south began forming some ten thousand years ago at the end of last Ice Age, and its northern rim is moving inexorably…

Fire Weather

The National Weather Service in Eureka, California has notified the Sheriff's Office of an Elevated Fire Weather Conditions and Warm Temperatures in Mendocino County as follows: High temperatures across interior valleys will remain in the…

Mendocino County Today: Friday, April 16, 2021

Warm Weekend | 4 New Cases | Favorite Sandos | Dry Lake | Rural 4G | Moonlit Coast | First Hops | Albion School | Ember Cast | Card Party | Harsh Reality | Moonshot | Buzzard Luck | Handbaskets | Simple Formula | John Wheeler | Guerilla Grower | Daisy MacCallum | Serial Killer | Pet Talk | Phase 3 | Cannabis Expansion | Specie Prints | Monoculture Ag | Yesterday's Catch | Jagger Chap | Drive In | Soup Cans | Hungry Fighter | Eel Victory | Post Vac | Art Collection | Outside | Assessment Appeals | Taserzooka | Storks | Plastic Straws | Afghan War | Sleep Well | Pacifica Vote

Mendocino Outlaws: The Manhunt Commences

The Mendocino Outlaws murdered Tom Dollard and William Wright on Wednesday, October 15, 1879. By the weekend Sheriff Jim Moore arrived in Mendocino City with a posse of four other men. Moore had sent a…

Greasy Pete’s Up Jackson’s Tree

At dawn this morning a small platform with a tree sitter perched atop it could be spotted 65 feet up in the tall redwood tree affectionately known to locals as the Mamma Tree. Located in…

County Notes (April 15, 2021)

Last Tuesday, The Supervisors were generally supportive of several spending requests for the $22.7 million PG&E settlement windfall. Predictably requests included more fire safety funding, improvements in emergency medical services, dispatch and local agencies, and…

Discussion: Jackson Demonstration State Forest

Tonight, Thursday, April 15, at 7 pm on KZYX 90.7/91.5 fm and www.kzyx.org on Universal Perspectives host Chris Skyhawk will discuss the tree sits that have gone up in Jackson Demonstration State Forest along Rd. 500 in…

Mendocino County Today: Thursday, April 15, 2021

Warming Days | No New Cases | 128 Collision | Mount Saint Helena | Anderson Valley Delights | Costco Shopper | Daughter Visit | Undeterred | Document Dump | Dick's Place | Daily Planets | Cannabis Meetings | Serpent School | Bruiser Boyfriend | Polar Bears | Supervisors Notes | Yesterday's Catch | Life Wisdom | Societal Disintegration | Bukowski Quaffing | Bathtub Fentanyl | Old Age | Dark Ecology

Off the Record (April 14, 2021)

MY FAVORITE local attorney, far and away, has always been Jared Carter, the go to guy for the Northcoast’s forces of destruction. The old boy’s getting on, but in his prime at public meetings, his…

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