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Posts published in December 2021

Mendocino County Today: Saturday, Dec. 25, 2021

Christmas Snow | Holly | Covid Tests | Sofia Missing | Toy Drive | Noyo Sunset | Sea Rescues | Skunk Harassment | Marble Veil | New Feudalism | AV Morning | Sherwood Oaks | Health Screenings | Winter Hours | Kary Mullis | Modern Atlas | Ed Notes | MotoClaus | MCT Mystery | Yesterday's Catch | Dideon Interview | Christmas 1967 | Living Rooms | Sharing Economy | Amanita Muscaria | Pro Lives | Junk Call | Outlaw Culture | Wartime Santa | Rational Evaluation | Earth's Lungs | Marco Radio | UFO | Public Comment | Wealth Tax | Nader Reading | Tannenbaum

Anderson Valley’s Iconic Dump Attendants

Last week I reported on the recent history of Anderson Valley’s dump sites and the personalities of the County employees who presided over these social gathering spots important in the Valley’s day-to-day life. And as…

Heavy Mountain Snow Expected During the Christmas Holiday

A series of cold upper level storm systems will aid in lowering snow levels to as low as 2000 feet by Saturday afternoon, and then occasionally sea level Saturday night through Monday morning. Periods of…

Mendocino County Today: Friday, Dec. 24, 2021

Mountain Snow | More Weed | Hill Hiking | Class 1919 | Rescue Training | Ed Notes | Daily Cases | Trent Video | Joan Didion | Christmas Cheer | Niners Lose | Big Santa | CEO/CAO | AV Recommendations | Edgewater Gallery | Naughty Spelling | Unfortunate Reporting | Hempmobile | CalCare Caravan | Arson Arrest | Yesterday's Catch | Death Rates | McDonald Bros | Wild Covelo | Cheerful Tandem | Barn Owl | Watershed Projects | Mask Boy | New Communism | National Healthcare | Alewives | 1931 NY | Automatic Writing | Turkey Claus

Sherwood Oaks on the Brink

Sherwood Oaks Health Center, the only convalescent hospital on the Mendocino Coast, could be shut down in a matter of weeks unless state health authorities send emergency nursing staff, Dr. William Miller told a meeting…

Eminent Domain: Not Just for Playground Trains

The owners of the Skunk train using eminent domain powers may have opened eyes around the Mendocino Coast in ways heretofore unimagined. Let's review the power that allowed the Skunk, aka Mendocino Railway, to acquire…

Mendocino County Today: Thursday, Dec. 23, 2021

Cold Showers | 18 Cases | Two Deaths | Fine Turkey | Benjamin Van Zandt | Old Postcards | Crisis Van | Tarwater Barn | Ed Notes | Mendo Troubadours | Weed Tax | Yesterday's Catch | Hate Show | Bonsai Forest | Paris 95 | Log Slide | Solar Policy | Point Arena | Money Power | War Hammer | Drinking Alcohol | Gotta Be | Asylum | Robert Frost | Mercy Dogs | Tree Rental | Holy War | Breakfast Surprise | Home Testing | 1951 Gifts | Pandemic Duty | Tramway | Civil War | Bronze Buddha | Broadband Upgrades | 1870 Church

County Counsel Pay Raise: The Plot Thickens

As it turns out, on Tuesday, after the Board violated the Brown Act by approving the County Counsel’s pay raise on the consent calendar, apparently on the advice of County Counsel Curtis himself, the man…

Letters (December 23, 2021)

The Board of Supervisors is poised to approve a huge pay increase for County Counsel, fixing his base salary at $192,436....

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