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Posts published in July 2021

Mendocino County Today: Wednesday, July 14, 2021

Cooling Trend | AVHC Expansion | Water Warning | Pillsbury Elk | Covid Origin | Little River | Vaccine Skepticism | Coast Children | Covelo Shooting | Attention Getting | CDC Inspection | Jackson Coalition | Cannabis Ordinance | Fishing Boat | Body Extricated | Melburne Hall | Ed Notes | Yesterday's Catch | Vile Onslaught | Public Transit | Sixties Book | Grandpa Squirreled | Gun Sales | Hill Folk | Leroy Paige | Cows Home | Pot Water | Superior Jeans | Extreme Drought | Dance Palace | Bless Traitors

Off the Record (July 14, 2021)

PAUL McCARTHY MEMORIAL It will be at the Casper Community center, July 18th, 12pm.  "Please come to honor our friend and community leader, Paul McCarthy (Mendocino Sports Plus). Please bring a chair or blanket to…

Valley People (July 14, 2021)

DIANE HERING IS HOME. Her many friends in the Anderson Valley and beyond are happy to see Diane out of the hospital and back where she belongs. BOONFIRE! Hey there valley beer &/or music lovers. Boonfire’s…

Mendocino County Today: Tuesday, July 13, 2021

Marine Clouds | 19 New Cases | Hering Home | William Kramer | Furnace Creek | Boonfire Appearance | PO Move | 123' Tall | Lumber Camp | Coastal Cases | Industrial Candles | Slugger Vaughan | Gualala Hotel | Caspar Dump | Yesterday's Catch | Aging Hippies | Slavery Chapter | Soul Summer | Good Books | Branson's Check | Billionaire Kings | 64 Rounds | AC | I Like Men | Music Teacher | Frack Water | Texas Politics

Mowing the Grass

"Mowing the grass". This is the expression used by the Israelis to refer to their periodic annihilation of anything of value in the vast swaths of Palestinian land which they dominate to an increasing degree…

Violence & Violins

A six-hour drive last weekend took us from Ithaca in Upstate New York to Oberlin, Ohio—two Blue college towns in a sea of Red. Our purpose was to help a daughter move out of her…

Marijuana 2021: Reefer Sadness

I've spent much my life around people with strong opinions about drugs and most of those opinions have been wrong if not lies. The more certain they were, the more laughable the outcomes. We've all…

Mendocino County Today: Monday, July 12, 2021

Cooling Trend | Planets Align | Mendo Vaccinations | Palace Demolition | Albion Engine | Save Jackson | Mailbox Thieves | Water Cuts | Ukiah 1950s | Western Hills | Dung Visit | Lumber Prices | Old Navarro | Winery Insurance | Klondike Bar | Ed Notes | Yesterday's Catch | Jim Thorpe | Maim Difference | Stop Screaming | Midnight Blues | Nerd Reply | Wealth Envy | Card House | Intramural Dispute | Pueblo Denizens | Frack Denials

Remembering Our Populist Roots

I wasn’t planning on writing about the Great Referendum Movement that has risen organically, and most certainly stimulated by the County’s new Cannabis Ordinance. I had another topic in mind but that’s been pushed aside,…

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