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Posts published in October 2021

PG&E’s Tree Cutting Frenzy

One more sorry event in California’s fire calamities is the insane reaction of PG&E to the changing climate. It’s almost as if the punishments they’ve had to endure this century - a long list of…

The Prosser Ranch Murder of 1921

Fred Prosser arrived in the Spy Rock region of Mendocino County rather late in life. Past sixty when he purchased the former Hayden ranch around 1920, he took to the cattle business like an old…

Mendocino County Today: Thursday, Oct. 28, 2021

Warm & Dry | 19 New Cases | Shirley Schield | Power Trio | Time Change | Montgomery Woods | Geniella Farewella | Budget Fudget | Young Safeway | Ed Notes | Parcel Tax | Massacre College | Spider Chart | Hopkins Disaster | Shasta Bioregion | One Storm | Moon Mountain | Dry Wells | Jacket Scuffle | Suspect Substances | Yesterday's Catch | Amish Lineup | Moldy Containers | Pirate Counsel | Palestinian NGOs | Jim Harrison | Stealing Home | Math Test | Teddy Roosevelt | Revolutionary Letters | Waterway Trespass | Kamp King | Grandfather Gruden | Mendo High

Supes Notes: Slouching Towards Clarity

An awkward moment arose at last Tuesday’s Supervisors meeting after the highly bureaucratic agenda Item 5h arose: “Discussion and Possible Action Including Adoption of Resolution Amending the Position Allocation Table as Follows: Sheriff’s Office Budget…

Letters (October 28, 2021)

It seems like Election Day has become the most important day of the year with the partisan atmosphere we live in. Why not make it a federal holiday so people can vote in person...

Mendocino County Today: Wednesday, Oct. 27, 2021

Scattered Showers | 16 New Cases | Covid Boosters | Shirley Missing | Navarro Q&A | Estuary | Mudhole McCowen | Open Studio | Restrictions Rescinded | John Missing | Trent Q&A | Faulkner Update | Supes Briefs | Bunting Ukiah | Orr Springs | Pumpkins | Ed Notes | Marmon Shorn | Wildlife Intern | Hippie Highrise | Ganja Portal | Yesterday's Catch | Mort Sahl | Greenwood Waterfront | Skateboard Festival | Landscape 77 | Jewish Series | Ukiah Livery | Musk Tax | Garage | Wildfire Documentary | Neefus Gulch | Glass Beach

Off the Record (October 27, 2021)

COVID MISINFORMATION is everywhere, but I, a true believer in medical science and unimpeded speech, try to keep it outta here, the ava, where, when I do, I’m called a censor. I’m also denounced as…

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