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Posts published in April 2021

Middle Earth In Mendocino

We are a family of Tolkien geeks. It all started in Comptche back in the early 90s. As a newlywed couple my ex-husband Mike and I moved onto Flynn Creek Road to build a retirement…

Mendocino County Today: Saturday, April 17, 2021

Dry Days | 6 New Cases | Fire Weather | Brown Cloud | Drought Signs | Breakthrough Cases | Iris | Vaccines Available | Plant Sale | FirstNet | Virgin Twin | Saving Steelhead | Music Program | About JDSF | Lilies | Sit Show | Fence Fail | Good Laugh | Good Cops | Blame Sacramento | Homeless Camps | Covid Mortality | Ed Notes | Forepaugh Circus | Primrose Pugilists | Blues Beach | Floribunda | Water Warning | 1930 Mendocino | Streetscape Update | Yesterday's Catch | Steep Street | Bad Cop | Good Trouble | Songcrafting | Thriving Wage | Stop It | Pusillanimous Prick | Scientific Method | Richelle Returns | Mass Shootings | Firescaping | More Bull | Demonic Phase

Former Supervisor John McCowen Answers Pot Permit Program Questions

What should the BOS do about enforcement? Accepting the Planning Commission recommendation to “allocate appropriate resources to the Department of Planning and Building Services and the Mendocino County Sheriff's Office for permitting, enforcement and oversight”…

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…

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