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Posts published in July 2021

Off the Record (July 28, 2021)

FORMER SUPERVISOR John Pinches told us recently that if the County was serious about doing something about water problems, they could run a smallish pipe along the Skunk Train right-of-way from Willits, which has some…

Valley People (July 28, 2021)

AV FFA, PRESENTE! Hello Everyone! My name is Noah Sanchez and I'm a member of the Anderson Valley FFA. I am 16 years old and this is my third year in FFA. I am taking…

Mendocino County Today, Tuesday, July 27, 2021

Cloud Cover | 45 New Cases | Covid Surging | Forest Fest | Water Woes | Emergency Curtailments | Pyrocumulus | Stolen Equipment | Kelp Resurgence | Local Roads | Peashooter | Stupes Problem | Creepy Statue | Undammed | Suspect Arrested | Yesterday's Catch | Attention Deficit | Another Weirdo | National Woes | Emergency Preparedness | Nature Boy | Eiffel Painting | Contrails | Kung-Fu | Comments | Brian Morans | Vaccine Mandates | Unvaccinated Brainwashing | Streamline Cycle | Deadly Silence | Flower Seller | Ubiquitous Plastic | Farriers | Q Anons

The Intruder

I opened my door and saw a huddled form working on a project in my back yard. He was shaving a rock and had dragged a small pile of asphalt into the yard. Oh no,…

Who Made The 60s? The People Or the Celebs?

Who built the seven gates of Thebes? The books are filled with names of kings. Was it the kings who hauled the craggy blocks of stone? And Babylon, so many times destroyed. Who built the…

A Note to Past and Current Subscribers

We were clearing out all our old expired Paypal subscription accounts this afternoon — housekeeping! — and didn't realize that Paypal would subsequently send a cryptic note to all those old email addresses. The Paypal…

Mendocino County Today: Monday, July 26, 2021

Monsoonal Moisture | Fire Watch | Rust Pile | River Stop | Future Farmers | Referendum Short | Calder's Peak | Mo Disappointed | Wino Run | Skunk Claims | Redwood Journalists | Acting Trick | Orr's | Bragg Fort | Ed Notes | Pioneer Inn | Waterful Ukiah | Last Case | Yesterday's Catch | Brotherly Love | Civics | Greed Rush | Horse Intro | Chaotic Climate | Joe Cannabis | Civil Rights | Struggling People | Fraud Investigation | Found Object

Assault On A Capitol Fourth

A quarter century ago Newt Gingrich, elevated to Speaker of the House by the 1994 midterm Republican landslide that followed on Bill Clinton’s first two years in the White House, loved to squawk about defunding…

Willits, Minus Traffic & Exhaust

I hadn’t been to Willits in a year or more, and when I drove through it a week ago it slowly dawned that the city looked different, and better. Way better. It’s gotten better than…

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