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Posts published in September 2021

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

Off the Record (September 15, 2021)

FROM THE SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT a week ago Monday morning: “Evers was last known to be running toward the Salmon Creek drainage North to Northeast of the home.”  EVERS again eluded the forces of law and…

Valley People (September 15, 2021)

THE HOPKINS FIRE that broke out near Calpella north of Ukiah Sunday afternoon was declared “forward progress stopped” about 10pm Sunday evening and evacuation orders were reduced to warnings. Fire size was estimated at 275…

Mendocino County Today: Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2021

Hot Haze | 130 New Cases | Hopkins Fire | No Goats | 2 More Deaths | Color Coded | Flexible Mandate | Black Sheep | 101 Fatality | Bridge View | Ed Notes | Dihydrogen Monoxide | Trans Issue | Dark Cheney | Snake Eyes | $15 Eighths | Generous Cashier | Yesterday's Catch | Societal Breakdown | Jiffy Lube | Wireless Control | Wolf Pup | Comments | Big Indian | Overcoming Militarism | Freedom After | Embarrassing Bill | Happens Next | Wildly Effective | Worst Behind

Melville, Our Contemporary

I spent a good part of August 1, 2019, the 200th anniversary of the birth of Herman Melville, by doing what every red-blooded American ought to have done: I re-read “Moby-Dick,” that “staggering work of…

And Still They Howl

There was a time, and some of us remember it, when nightly howls echoed about the neighborhoods of Ukiah, howls intended as loud shouts of support for front line workers in the pandemic of 2020.…

Mendocino County Today: Monday, Sept. 13, 2021

Heating Up | 101 Fatality | Hopkins Fire | 1913 Parade | Forest Defenders | Boonville 1920 | Strong Recommendation | Horse Troopers | Grange Display | Highrollers 2014 | Big Fine | Precipice Parking | Ed Notes | Dog Out | Slow Mail | Hi-Fi | Tommy Texting | Greenville Speed | Client Liability | Yesterday's Catch | Preventing 911 | Ultimate Battle | Broken Heart | Mad Brute | Wrenching Poem | Day Shift | Marco Radio | Beach Censor | Solar Conversion | Poison Dinner | Afghan Women | Bernardo Provenzano | Bruising Statistic

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