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Posts published in March 2022

Mendocino County Today: Saturday, March 26, 2022

Warm Afternoon | 5 New Cases | Ukraine Update | Pictures Taken | Summer Dread | Camp Detritus | Revisiting Kemper | Skate Day | Fire Starters | Missing Person | Public Bank | Sun Shades | Police Reports | Yesterday's Catch | Endless War | Oscar Buckholtz | Yellow Submarine | MHS Orchestra | Stuff Happens | Albright Obit | Trial Experience | Frog Survey | LR Pier | Instant Dislike | feMale Swimmer | Open Mike | Marco Radio | Myosotis | Emotional Courage | Confirmation Clowns | US Disinformation | Covid Decorations

Doc to Dissolution

To ride with Doc Standley in 1892 or... whether tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of the outrageous fortunes of the Mendocino Coast Health Care District Board of Directors in…

Big Oil, Big Opera: Handel at the Met

Handel was born with an umlaut on his name: Händel.  He rubbed it out after he left his native Germany for a sojourn of several years in Italy before emigrating to non-diacritical England in 1711…

Mendocino County Today: Friday, March 25, 2022

Fog & Sun | 7 New Cases | BA.2 Arrives | 2 Positives | Logging Camp | Tax Error | War Claims | Spring Garden | Unity Club | Caspar Trestle | Redbeard Sentenced | Ogden Fundraiser | Ukiah Trail | Adult Ballet | Hopland Blues | Wonderland Performance | Ed Notes | Mendo Cornfield | Rubber Dam | Clan McEwan | Seductive Success | Drive-in Movie | Isolated CEO | Breaktime | Exec Pay | Yesterday's Catch | Be Independent | Iraq Flag | Wild Orphan | Hilda Sutherland | Suing Hillary | Big Bust | Redwood Felling | Fentanyl Discussion | Reject Evidence | Wonderfully Done | Cocaine Days | Nursing Career | Welcome Back | Panhandle | Defending Ukraine | Westport Family | Westernmost Bar | Mill Pond | Racist Babies | Clown Congress | Assange Marriage

The Great Redwood Boondoggle

At the first meeting of the Great Redwood Trail Agency, Bay Area weatherman Mike Pechner accurately predicted that the “new” agency’s project was “a financial boondoggle that would spend several billions of dollars in maintenance…

AV Health Center: Founders & Early Days

Many readers know the Anderson Valley Health Center has recently launched a Capital Campaign to fund construction of the much needed addition to its offices on Airport Drive.  The new space is essential to the…

Mendocino County Today: Thursday, March 24, 2022

Dry Days | Trillium | Ukraine Headlines | Juan Creek | Les Tarr | Albion 1909 | Mega Events | Need Proof | Medicare Answers | Remembering Ricky | Suicide Net | Bostrom Cycling | Low Bridge | Boonless Doggle | Harvest Funds | Tiny Homes | Afghan Flag | Hospital Positions | Boy Soldiers | Ed Notes | Billionaire Bloat | Suspected Murder | Another Sonnet | Questioning Ortner | Yesterday's Catch | Noyo Ship | Horrific Militarism | Striking Teamsters | Fighting Times | Republican Party | Hibachi House | Dem Club | Mermaids

The M in MUSD Doesn’t Stand for Mendocino

Mark Twain once said “In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.” Twain’s wisdom received a stunning confirmation last week on March 10th, 2022 with the display…

County Notes (March 24, 2022)

LAST TUESDAY’S SUPERVISORS MEETING featuring the Board’s final farewell to retiring CEO Carmel Angelo signaled what sounds a lot like a return to a version of the old CAO Tom Mitchell era, Mitchell, long-time observers…

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