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Posts published in May 2021

Mendocino County Today: Saturday, May 8, 2021

Cool Sunny | Another Death | Fire Season | Flower Garden | Pedestrian Killed | 1920 Mill | Hybrid Meeting | Elk Logging | Lost Villages | 1910 Loggers | County Notes | Cloud Goat | Wine/Weed | 1939 Truckers | Cannabis Tax | Scotia Train | Streetscape Update | Yesterday's Catch | Cop Shakedown | Donner Picnic | Garden Chat | Bear Stumping | Knife Sharpener | Political Virus | Tax Shift | Bubblicious Market | Prayer Day | Prime Idiocy | Circumlocution | Mitch McSponsors | Teacher Appreciation | Royal Hit | Crime Syndicate

Pursuing the Mendo Outlaws on Two Fronts

The pursuit of the Mendocino Outlaws, wanted for the murder of two men, extended from October into November. The posse searched for the three remaining fugitives from the coast to the Eel River to Round…

Orwell v. Cockburn, Continued

After he made New York City his base in 1970, Alex Cockburn and I became friends. We were in political sync about many things but not about the Civil War in Spain, where Claud Cockburn…

Mendocino County Today: Friday, May 7, 2021

Cooler Today | 4 New Cases | AV Library | Plant Sale | Mum Gifts | Free Rose | Grazing Workshop | Goat Struck | Recommended Book | Ed Notes | Armed Kindness | Murder Suspect | Lunch Crunch | Gunpoint Goldilocks | Yesterday's Catch | Chinaman | Obi-Juan | Huicholes | Deepend Bikers | Weed Encroachment | Labor | Extreme People | Merit Badge | Dynamite Fisherman | Electricity Kills | Faith Returns | Foil Headquarters | Reuse Plastic | Cloverdale Depot | Dubious Fuel

Fort Bragg’s Looming Water Catastrophe

Taking the “sudden” out of the almost-certain water use restrictions to come this summer is part of the purpose of the water emergency ordinance the Fort Bragg City Council will consider at its meeting May…

The Lost Hamlets of Anderson Valley

History is full of surprises, even in Anderson Valley. Here, as nearly everywhere, it moves at a seemingly imperceptible pace, until we look back and discover much has changed. In the last 60 years alone,…

Mendocino County Today: Thursday, May 6, 2021

Significant Cooling | 3 New Cases | Walk-Ins Welcome | Help Wanted | Blossomtime | Wildfire Threat | Berryessa | Fire Prep | Vacaville | Federal Aid | Crossing 128 | Crisis Hire | Couched | Water Project | Piano Lessons | Fuzzy Confusion | Library Generators | Raisining | EOC Priority | Former Employee | Alder Glen | Mental Distress | Land Stewardship | Plant Sale | False Advertising | Rental Wanted | Police Reports | Hemp Museum | Art Walk | Yesterday's Catch | Food Costs | Boxing Religion | Waters Effect | Prince Kiss | Castles | Viva Mexico | Love Story | Socialism | Vaccine Patents | Gates Date | Miserly Plutocrats | CA Garnish | Dem Zoom | Katrina Radio

County Notes (May 5, 2021)

THERE’S NO WAY we could possibly cover the Board’s nine and a half hour pot marathon meeting on Tuesday. Our overall impression is that the Board is simply replacing the Bad Old Unwieldy, Unworkable McCowen…

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