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Posts published in December 2021

County Notes (December 9, 2021)

NEXT TUESDAY’S AGENDA continues the saga of ridiculous half-baked items, most of them served up on the Consent Calendar, without any plausible supporting data or explanation. CONSENT ITEM 4F – “Direct staff to allocate Cannabis…

Letters (December 9, 2021)

Scott Dam and Lake Pillsbury, Cape Horn Dam and Van Arsdale Reservoir are past their expiration dates and are major financial and safety liabilities....

Mendocino County Today: Wednesday, Dec. 8, 2021

Sprinkles | 28 Cases | Covid Cost | Birthday Olie | Angelica Duo | Attempted Murder | Skunk Interview | Jailhouse Bees | Cyberhole | Mural Completion | PA Holiday | Partners Gallery | Ed Notes | Pearl Harbor | Greenwood Mill | Micronesia President | Kerouac Alley | Healing/Paying | Yesterday's Catch | Newspaper Killers | Libraries | Mediocre Niners | Library Stacks | Japanese Unit | Mendocino Lookout | Some Perspective | Chow Break | Deeper Life | Albion Schooner | Hemingway Demo | Skunk Commute | Animality | Rough Year

Off the Record (December 8, 2021)

“HE WHO WOULD KEEP A SECRET must keep it a secret that he has a secret to keep,” hence nobody who knows for a slam dunk fact if the Kennedy Assassination was a conspiracy has…

Valley People (December 8, 2021)

AV GRANGE HOLIDAY PANCAKE BREAKFAST: Are you in the mood for the holidaze? Yeah, we know it's a bit different smiling behind your mask, not quite knowing if you can give that big bear hug.…

County Issues Notice of Violation to Skunk for Oil Spill

On December 1, 2021, Mendocino County Environmental Health received a report from a private citizen of an oil discharge at the Mendocino Railway yard, located at 100 W. Laurel Street, Fort Bragg....

Mendocino County Today: Tuesday, Dec. 7, 2021

Clear Sky | 49 Cases | AV Gym | Consolidation Bad | Garden Path | Last Steelhead | Mural Models | LR Museum | Spill/Interview | Elk Garage | OD Saves | Pegleg | Beacon 50 | Memorabilia | Sweet Houses | Ed Notes | Ghost Gunner | Tolstoys | Rorby Book | Eye Contact | Off Grid | Drought Zoom | Planning | Candlelit Shopping | Polio Pioneers | Come a'Thistlin' | Gift Wrapper | Cookie Loaded | Yesterday's Catch | EDD Staffing | Mask Moaners | Corporate State | Unmask Kids | White Punks | GI Bath | Mass Psychosis | Deep Down | Virtual Tree | Flynn Disappeared | Guard Deployment | Holy Flute | One Winner | Young Soldiers | Counseling Crumbley | Venn Distopia

A Tale of Two Trees

One of the most famous trees in music is the one hymned by the title character in the opening scene of Handel’s 1738 opera Xerxes. The Persian King—in the original production sung by a male…

At the Dentist

The last thing I wanted to do was piss off my dentist. As usual whenever I get in trouble my lament is: “But I didn’t do anything!” Nonetheless here I am six months later with…

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