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Posts published in October 2021

Valley People (October 13, 2021)

COLIN WILSON of Yorkville, retired AV Fire Chief, writes: “We’ve been seeing a lot of PG&E contractors out here in the Yorkville area for a…

Booster Shot for Moderna, J&J Being Considered

Booster shots for COVID vaccines are again in the news.  This time for Moderna and Johnson & Johnson (J&J).  Both companies provided the FDA this…

Mendocino County Today: Tuesday, Oct. 12, 2021

Weak Front | James Kramer | Precautionary Principle | Mendocino Farms | Produce Exchange | Pelicans | Giants Win | Museum Tour | Pumpkin Patch | Mental Zoom | Lake Plain | Field Station | Deep End | Counting Topos | Southern Fried | Dwindling Desperation | Columbus Sale | Ed Notes | Police Reports | Yesterday's Catch | Decadence | Neighbors | Priorities | Dodge City | Unfair Oaks | Brief Value | Wokepocrisy | Hedge Dump | AE | 13,000 Nukes | Two Stops | Long Game | Anon Whistleblower | Lonnie Smith | Hippie Hovels

In Thieves We Trust

My close friend Sally’s health took a nosedive after her second stroke. And like many old people – and candor demands that we ourselves could…

6,536 Get PSPSed

PG&E shuts off power to more than 6,500 customers in Sonoma, Lake, Napa counties amid high fire danger by Matt Pera (courtesy pressdemocrat.com) Pacific Gas…

Mendocino County Today: Monday, Oct. 11, 2021

Breezy | Sneak Tax | Body Found | Sunset | Redistricting Laytonville | Abandoned Trestle | Cannabis Clusterfarce | Jewel's Out | Ed Notes | Cosmos | Future Memory | Comptche Vista | Watch Duty | Drought Zoom | Yesterday's Catch | Circular Progression | Alzheimer Story | Russian Gulch | Thorium Power | Solitude | B Solar | Treason | Existential Denial | Rigged System | Minor Mike | Bear Hunter | Updating Marx | Super Change | Ignoring Assange | Berlin 1932 | Juvenile Justice | 1926 Motorhome | California Oil | FB Timberwolves | Heartwood Cast

Our Times: The Importance of the Hed

The Power of the Hed Back in the day, newsroom wisdom had it that approximately 1/4 of readers would glance at the headline and not…

Mendocino County Today: Sunday, Oct. 10, 2021

Breezy Days | Outage Watch | Jim Allan | Dodgers Win | Pet Jack | Avoiding Scams | Lanny Cotler | Online Archive | Fundraising Party | Supervisor Troublemaker | Remember Kadie | Trent #4 | Ed Notes | Yesterday's Catch | Engine 18 | Coyote Questions | Circus Dare | Silly County | Real Bookstore | JFK Act | Hippie/Redneck | Big John | SF Heart | Fleet Week | Captain Alioto | Beware Tylenol | Washington Arch | Marco Radio

The College Kid Runs the Auction, Part 2

Last week I recounted how, with  a mere half dozen years of sheep farming experience, I undertook the job of managing the weekly sheep sale…

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