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Posts published in February 2022

Mendocino County Today: Saturday, Feb. 5, 2022

High Pressure | 70 Cases | Doggie Dorie | Isbell Bros | Layoff Notice | Cordage Workshop | Measure B-trayal | Paranormal Nest | Bragg Identity | Car Cleaner | Dealer Detritus | Drought Cancelled | Danger Holler | Burn Coast | Got Lost | Schapmire Interview | Burglary Suspect | Stone Zone | Al References | Yesterday's Catch | Labor Market | Divine Right | Booster Shy | Death Rates | Ignorant Intel | Plowing 1920s | Kryptonite Times | Wiltshire Landscape | NATO Nuts | Video Magazine | Shasta Recall | Dropping Dead | Nurse Christie | CA Crime | Bridge Collapse | Prohibit Drilling | Real Men | Vaquero 3 | Corrina Fallieri | Facing Defeat | Fouled Twice | Marco Radio | Steal Me | Impossibly Ridiculous | Butterflies

The First Growers: Winegrapes in Anderson Valley

Forty years ago Eileen Pronsolino co-wrote a brief history of the earliest wine grape growers in Anderson Valley.  At the time she was working at Al Green’s Greenwood Ridge Vineyard tasting room on Highway 128,…

Hate Speech, PG&E, and More

I recently wrote a column featuring former county supervisor John McCowen’s thoughts on retiring CEO Carmel Angelo’s tenure in Mendo County.…

Mendocino County Today: Friday, Feb. 4, 2022

Dry Quiet | 48 Cases | Elementary Closed | Vax Clinic | School News | Oak Firewood | Powerhouse Down | Beat Blues | Healthy Eating | HumCo Unzooming | Collage Exhibition | Throwback 1898 | Musselwhite Birthday | Ed Notes | Van Zandt's | Car Theft | Yesterday's Catch | Pushing Paint | Camp One | Press Award | Stumbling In | Slow Journey | Bad Advice | Big Log | Aging Thoughts | Andrew Tahja | Weed Webinars | Big Decision | Fair Study | Divided & Conquered | Prison Reform | Add Water | Legalization Blues | Pot Seizures | 1885 Hotel | Solar Swindle | Firing Squad | Voll Beckons | Alcohol Solution

Frosting On Dead Fish

King Salmon. Delicious. California King Salmon, that is. In the nineteen sixties and seventies, it was priced a little bit more than hamburger. It was a staple on family plates. During World War One, canned King…

Fort Bragg Keeps Its Name

Fort Bragg's name was up for discussion before the city council Jan. 24 as a citizens commission delivered its report - but no recommendation on renaming the town. Instead, after working for nearly a year…

Mendocino County Today: Thursday, Feb. 3, 2022

Gradual Warming | 66 New Cases | Covid Monthly | Caspar Cabins | Boys Positive | Reservoir Conditions | Omicron Wave | AV Views | Unsustainable BOS | Throwback 1937 | Open Positions | Ed Notes | Dam Building | Shields-o-Gram | Maurice Fraga | Mo Report | SS Irene | Mayor Reflects | Chute Rider | AV Village | DeHaven Mill | Fort Braggers | 1927 Baseballers | Sweetheart Sunday | Yesterday's Catch | Triscuit Hunt | Song | NFL Discrimination | Mendosa's | 4-H Presentation | Albion Fruitstand | PG$E | Rough Sea | Politicized Fact-Checking | Truckless | Modern Propaganda | Gluten Free | Moving On | Swedish Immigrant | Homeless Courts | Hazeltine's | Sirhan Show | Public Theater

Problematic Hospital District Board

Regular readers will have noticed my return to the problematic topic that is the Mendocino Coast Health Care District (MCHCD) in this new year of 2022. Prior to that I hadn't put finger to keyboard…

County Notes (February 3, 2022)

Supes Prefer Being In The Dark From the superlatives the Supervisors laid on outgoing CEO Carmel Angelo at Tuesday’s Board of Supervisors meeting one would never know the reality of a badly (or un-)managed county.…

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