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Posts published in August 2021

Let’s Rodeo

Before we get started let’s learn how to correctly say rodeo, it’s  ro-dee-o, not ro-day-o. I never participated in a big-time rodeo venue. One time I entered a junior rodeo at the Cow Palace. The…

Mendocino County Today: Monday, August 16, 2021

Westerly Winds | Unhealthful Air | Possible Outage | Fire Watch | Unlearned Lesson | Imperial Hubris | River Cleanup | Anapolsky Memorial | Boonville Postcard | Wrong Number | Ukiah Switchboard | Ed Notes | Ukiah Baseball | Bunyan Hiring | Yesterday's Catch | Raise Coyote | Saigon Echo | Water Rights | Normal Bad | Stressful Times | WASP Pilot | Lemonade Stand | Fly Buzz | Psycho Rapist | Don't Recall | Fairytale Giants | Hannity Ode | Undeveloped Subdivision | Taliban Leader | Whitewashing Kabul | Landfill Logic | Mission Accomplished

Backdoor Maneuvers

ON JULY 11 we wrote about a very fishy Consent Calendar Item which had its origins going back to March:  Item 4ab). “Adoption of Resolution Authorizing a Title Change and Salary Revision of General Services…

Mendocino County Today: Sunday, August 15, 2021

Smoking Hot | Nye Produce | Bell Fire | Parched Mendo | Arson Blaze | Pet Sadie | Bridge Out | Long Walk | Mini Mini | Mendo Census | City Lights | Ed Notes | Bambino | Yesterday's Catch | Tiny Cottage | Marbles Lost | Mary's Lamb | Empire Graveyard | Kandahar Patrol | Defensible Space | Wooden Church | Barack Antoinette | Eyehold | Different Wars | Highway Act | Giant Bootprint | Do Nothing | Party's Over | Lynn Compton | Sako Radio

Lake Oroville Powerplant Closed

On August 5, California DWR State Water Project operations managers took the Hyatt Powerplant at Lake Oroville offline as the lake dropped to its lowest-ever recorded water level. The current water level is only 641.39…

Bell Fire: Forward Spread Stopped

The 50-acre fire, which started today at noon, five miles east of Leggett at Bell Springs Road and Foster Creek Road, has been stopped according to the CalFire Mendocino Unit (5:30pm). Evacuation Orders have been…

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