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Posts published in December 2021

Covelo Power Outage

On the Covelo power outage, Supervisor Haschak reports Tuesday morning:  This came to me from PG&E this morning. “You will see generators just outside the substation tomorrow, with the goal of the generators restoring power…

End of Year COVID Updates

As our second year of the pandemic draws to a close, a few updates on where things stand are in order. Omicron, the new variant, is quickly becoming the dominant strain of the virus around…

Mendocino County Today: Tuesday, Dec. 28, 2021

Light Snow | Vehicle Burglars | College Help | Navarro Cheer | Ed Notes | Arabic Numerals | Migrating Whales | Ocean Views | Christmas Slog | Treasonous Acts | Yesterday's Catch | Morning Leprechaun | Bridge Out | Remove Dam | Santa Strike | NM Photos | Music Tradition | Tutu Said | Wayne Thiebaud | Jackpot Question | Mazel Tough | Holiday Police | Pleasantly Drinking | Roof Repair | Left Bias | Babe Airborne | Desmond Tutu | Water Planet | Cloverdale Housing | Mendo Mill | Existential Risk | Team Trump

Brilliance Disguised as Silliness

Dan Asmussen, whose "Bad Reporter" cartoons ran in the San Francisco Chronicle and were syndicated by Universal Press Syndicate, died December 9 at the age of 59. What a loss! Maybe because what they produce are "merely"…

Mendocino County Today: Monday, Dec. 27, 2021

Showers | Apfel Retires | Christmas PS | Boonvile Lights | Masks/Weed | Lake Mendocino | Lost Truck | Off Mendocino | Crazy Money | Ukiah Lights | Jim & Barbara | Comptche 1911 | Don't Look | American Nitro | Yesterday's Catch | Flood Damage | Covid Contradictions | Mendocino 1975 | Gun Shows | Big Kitty | NFL Expansion | Joplin Family | Pear Picking | Lighthouse | Salty Sweat | Santa Bar | 2021 Review | QAnon Shaman

Miracles for a Marriage

I aspire to be like her. She is a stranger, a nice lady we met recently at the county clerk’s office at 501 Low Gap in Ukiah. She is also an angel, apparently placed on…

Mendocino County Today: Sunday, Dec. 26, 2021

Low Snow | Meteor Woodcut | Crisis Van | CJ Greeting | Public Support | Sofia Home | Pipeline Funding | Greenwood Bridge | Black Madeline | Mendocino 1906 | Redbeard Mail | Doggie Holiday | Pomo Grant | Yesterday's Catch | Co-Op Video | Stump Sitters | Columbia Today | 1877 Portrait | Private McQueen | Omicron Spike | Great Fight | Soviet Poster | Western Land | Santa Down | Prison Christmas | Lil Hil | Christmas Wish | Charles Ebbets | Stan Lee | Titanic Officers | Marco Radio | Unappreciated | Solar Subsidies | Pullen House | Couch View | Santas Exit

The Skunk’s Big Plans

An Interview with Robert Pinoli: When Mendocino Railways announced in October that it had bought the remaining land on the Fort Bragg millsite and along the banks of the Pudding Creek estuary for about $1.2…

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