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Posts published in February 2022

Unpresent Confidence

Mendocino Coast District Healthcare District directors began 2022 in open conflict, judging by their first meeting of the year on January 27. The meeting featured denunciations of board treasurer John Redding by board secretary Sara…

Mendocino County Today: Sunday, Feb. 6, 2022

Warming Trend | Night Shadow | Free Lunch | Pet Reba | Gridiron Breakfast | Infantile Banter | Bear 77 | Advisory Measure | Piercy Dam | Throwback 1932 | Gaslighting | B Fuddled | Hunting Party | Car Washer | Ed Notes | Doc Fulton | Public Officials | PG&E Returns | MAGA Trim | Art Contest | Yesterday's Catch | Passed Years | Blue Door | Hemingway House | Comptche 1890 | More Water Later | Big Sounds | Marco Radio | Mendocino 1988 | No Emergency | Live Alone

Encanto’s Chart-Topping Enchantments

Beginning with Disney’s first animated feature film, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs of 1937, the Mouse House’s message has always been about family. That laser beam focus makes for heartwarming storytelling but, more importantly,…

Wallpapering Over The Dry Rot

The next thing they’ll do is repaint all those bulbout curbs black so the hundreds of tires that rub against them daily won’t leave telltale marks. After that, they’ll block State Street off from vehicles…

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.…

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