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Posts published in October 2021

Fire on Monte Bloyd Road

UPDATE: Forward progress stopped at around 6:30pm. Declared controlled at about 0.11 acres at around 8pm. Resources released except for mop-up. BETH SWEHLA REPORTING at 5:40pm Thursday: Fire at Monte Bloyd Rd, about a mile…

Mendocino County Today: Thursday, Oct. 14, 2021

Chilly Mornings | 10 New Cases | Desal Helping | Firefighters Training | Redistricting Mischief | Marine Talk | Benefit Picnic | Forest Battle | Pirate Homecoming | Stone Delay | County Openings | Can Kicking | Indigenous People | Ed Notes | Bettega Caught | Shark Souped | PA Testing | Bantam Brigade | Clarinet Ensemble | Yesterday's Catch | HumCo Decision | Label Up | Plastic Oceans | Conspiracy Theorists | Unfree Speech | Time Slip | Allergic Reactions | Squidoween | Brown Sugar | Meteorite Visit | Gas Powered

County Notes (October 14, 2021)

On Tuesday the Supervisors scheduled a special “Workshop Presentation from the Sheriff's Office on the Annual Budget of the Sheriff-Coroner's Office.” The workshop was described as: “A two-hour overview of the annual budget of the…

113 Arson Fires in Ukiah — So Far

Investigators determined two-thirds of this year’s 168 blazes were intentionally set. So far this year, the Ukiah Valley Fire Authority has responded to 168 fires, two-thirds of which have been declared arsons, Capt. John Corippo…

Letters (October 14, 2021)

Are Hip Camps the new equivalent of illegal cannabis cultivation sites? Will one of these camps be the source of a fire that devastates our County...

Mendocino County Today: Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2021

Autumn Weather | 41 New Cases | Millsite Maneuvers | Eureka Productions | Covelo Murder | Love & Ammo | Mental Health Zoom | Clarinet Ensemble | Old Willits | PV Powerhouse Offline | Mendocino Mill | Teacher Compensation | Yesterday's Catch | Waterwise | Trent #5 | Come Around | Wildlife Action | Vax Harass | FB Sunset | Not Mendocino Farms | Muzzle Awareness | Future Facing | Orchard Bear | Safe Schools | Former Lake | MCC Grant | JDSF Defenders | Dodgers Win | Pollution Bill

Off the Record (October 13, 2021)

FORMER DEPUTY TRENT JAMES has, as we go to press, four YouTube-posted segments of his “Confessions of an ex-cop” series and promises more. Trent James is the first cop in my memory to talk publicly…

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