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Posts published in September 2021

The Last Days of the Redwood Record

I was hanging around The Redwood Record in Garberville, California toward the end in 1995 and that place was a zoo: stoners, neurotics, alcoholics, and freaks — I guess I fit right in. There was…

Mendocino County Today: Friday, Sept. 17, 2021

Rain Coming | 49 New Cases | County Fair | 1959 Fairgrounds | Ballot Counting | Recall/Covid | Toxic Lake | Apple Bowl | Cannabis Repeal | Octopus Hill | County Scofflaw | Free Stuff | Witter Ranch | Glancing Fireballs | Ed Notes | Slatten Spree | Tax Gown | Price Fallout | Pink Flameter | Abandoned Vehicles | Profit Outlook | Climate Wine | Yesterday's Catch | Final Entry | Antietam Diary | MCN Birth | Mill Workers | Bogus History | Garden Therapy | Public Education | Vaccine Questions | 1965 Parade | Short Staffing | Free Speeching

911

“David and Nelson’s twin tombstones” is what Jack Newfield called the Twin Towers, which were rising steadily in the winter of 1970/71. They cast rectangular shadows over more and more of Lower Manhattan in the…

Mendocino County Today: Thursday, Sept. 16, 2021

Cooling Trend | 51 New Cases | Ballot Count | BOLO Covelo | Delivering Water | Fair HQ | Hopkins Fire | Apple Display | Chief's Report | Bull Rider | Darcy Art | Sheep Dogging | Westport Homicide | Arson Plea | Llama Lady | Beyond Desperate | Mother's Meth | Fighting Words | Ed Notes | Other Place | Probation Visit | Pilgram Popped | Yesterday's Catch | Adventurous | Battling Pandemics | Covidmandering | Feckless Congress | Young Customers | Bad Cops | Morning Glories | Moderate Sellout

County Notes (September 16, 2021)

UNBELIEVABLY, THE SHERIFF’S LAWSUIT against the County/Board of Supervisors continues into its second month. Item 9d on next Tuesday’s Board agenda: “Pursuant to Government Code Section 54956.9(d)(1) - Conference with Legal Counsel - Existing Litigation:…

Letters (September 16, 2021)

The drought has everyone concerned and rightly so. Rather than huddle in fear and doom scroll though the crisis, let’s view it as an opportunity...

Mendocino County Today: Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2021

Cooler Temps | 65 New Cases | Recall Rejected | Babyface Arson | Jesus Soon? | Water Crisis | Fair Weekend | Unvaxed Employees | Open Carry | Philo Produce | Little River | Old Boonville | Ed Notes | Cost Comparison | Supe Letters | Successful Marriages | Cove Cleanup | Free Testing | Yesterday's Catch | Kelp Comeback | Never Whatever | Interesting Time | Quarter Brains | Religious Journey | Croc Tank | Melville's House | Riot 2 | Corporate State | Under Attack | Youth Doom | Donner Dome | Altruistic Species

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