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Posts published in December 2021

6.2 Quake off Cape Mendocino

6.2 magnitude earthquake off Cape Mendocino, 45 miles SW of Eureka. NO TSUNAMI THREAT. Moderate to strong shaking in parts of our area, especially Eureka south to Petrolia. Some minor damage reported due to fallen…

Mendocino County Today: Monday, Dec. 20, 2021

Cloudy Breezy | Lake Pillsbury | Smaller Hospital | Point Arena | Hendy Free | Eileen Oppenlander | Student Testing | Mystery Bluff | Shop Local | Aluminum Tree | Lighting Competition | Police Reports | Mendocino Dairy | Trimmer Trouble | Yesterday's Catch | Wealth Media | Tight Quarters | Water Wasters | Backyard Gazebo | Weed Industry | Mendo Grammar | Ukiah Concerts | Literalist | Locusts | Sore Loser | GI Show | Embracing Che | Scales | Ganja Tax | Xmas Future | Marco Radio | Farty Dispute | Couched Stehr | Lighthouse Workers | Human Toll

AV Wine News

The local wine association forgot to send us the announcement of their Feb. 19-20 Anderson Valley Winter White Wine Weekend, but 2022 marks the 15th year of the Big White Wine Weekend featuring the Valley’s…

The Case of the Missing Christmas Tree Stand

This is a Christmas story but might better fit on Page 2 of the Daily Journal because it’s also about crime, except it’s stale for a crime story since it happened 20 years ago, and…

Prop 215, Then & Now

I think it was 1999 and Eddy Lepp said to me, “Oaky Joe you gotta come down the mountain and get your shit legal, now is the time!” Sooooo I followed Eddy’s really bad advice…

Mendocino County Today: Sunday, Dec. 19, 2021

Increasing Clouds | Yorkville Market | Skunky Business | Pet Beth | Amended Demand | Leaf Area | B Audit | Stewardress | Goat Pens | Young Tolstoy | Cancer Resource | What Variant | Homeless Dashboard | Patriot Game | Ed Notes | 1906 Chaps | Christmas Passed | River Crossing | Emerald Memories | Pseudo Realities | Weed Woes | Yesterday's Catch | Book Party | Monsieur Ali | Smollett Enablers | Noyo River | Ecological Disaster | Comptche Carriages | Next Coup | Burnt Out | Santa Break

Camping with Campion

Jane Campion’s Power of the Dog, now out on NetFlix, recognizes no borders. It’s a Western that crosses the frontiers of geography, genre, and gender with unapologetic, well-funded ease. Set in 1920s Montana, the film…

Kids

In 1969 my husband boarded a military transport bound for what he assumed would be a long flight to Danang. The flight landed instead on the island of Okinawa, where he and another young recruit…

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