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Posts published in December 2021

Fort Bragg Officials Object to Skunk Acquisition of Mill Site

Fort Bragg City Council members squared off Monday night with managers and owners of Mendocino Railways, operator of the Skunk Train, over the railroad’s recently announced acquisition by eminent domain of the remaining 270 acres…

‘It Was Lonely’

William Evers, known as the Redbearded Burglar, is a 40-year-old man who knows what awaits him in the coming months. After nearly a year in the wilds of Mendocino County burglarizing rural homes, fleeing from…

Mendocino County Today: Thursday, Dec. 2, 2021

Warm Day | 11 Cases | 2 Deaths | Main 1878 | Generous Offer | Tatum Guilty | Firecycle | 101 Enforcement | Wine Sale | Coach Thanks | Adult Ballet | Boat Parade | Phone Story | Pancake Breakfast | Visit Greenwood | Air Insurance | Cemetery Lawsuit | 1938 Prices | Consolidation Question | Drought Conservation | Kingfisher Friends | GP Skunk | Companion Planting | Bliss Ninny | Liberty Head | Redistricting Hearing | Yesterday's Catch | Pedo Island | Booking Cage | JFK Files | Must Wash | Trump Positive | Peaky Blinders | Covid Speculation | Defense Budget

When Fort Bragg Had a Real Railroad

One hundred years ago you could get on the California Western Railroad in Fort Bragg at 8:15 in the morning and ride the train to Eureka and arrive at 7:30 p.m. Two different trains provided…

Letters (December 2, 2021)

Our roadways, creeks and streams are overwhelmed with garbage. The sources are many, but illegal dumping of garbage, appliances and tires makes up the bulk of what I drive by and see every day....

Reported Oil Spill on Skunk Train Tracks

I wanted to pass on a report from Mendocino County Environmental Health of an oil spill this morning on the Skunk Train tracks along Pudding Creek.  Will Nalty from the County reached out to make…

Mendocino County Today: Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2021

Sunny Skies | 8 New Cases | Tree Lighting | Stupid Callers | MacDonald Memorial | Vaccine Development | Beer/Food Pairings | Redbeard Interview | Good Farm Fund | Lucifer Rising | MRC Work | Arresting Manson | Crab Season | Ed Notes | Yesterday's Catch | Vax Rates | Card Games | Black Peanut | Twitter Phenomenon | Motorskates | Nostalgia | Don't Bother | Watching Sondheim | We're Fools | Good War

Off the Record (December 1, 2021)

CURIOUSER AND CURIOUSER. Poor Old Joe goes to the doctor last week and the White House announces that not only was the colonoscopy positive but Joe's brain was fully capable of handling his (light) duties…

The Omicron Variant

The news media has been buzzing with articles about a new COVID variant, B.1.1.529, which was first identified about two weeks ago in South Africa.  On November 26th, the World Health Organization (WHO) added it…

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