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Posts published in April 2022

Play Ball!

With the 2022 major league baseball season barely begun, a starting player on a prominent team lost his job. Though not in itself unusual –…

Mendocino County Today: Sunday, April 24, 2022

Beach Hazard | Point Arena | No Endorsement | Noyo Consort | Palace Hope | Pet Otis | Plant Sale | AVUSD Updates | Little River | Queenie's Reopening | Candidate Forums | Cactus Flower | Diminished Town | Rug Class | Weed Cooperative | Auto Court | Saturation Point | Film Festival | Young Hunters | Ed Notes | Climate Youth | Ukraine | Relief Benefit | Police Reports | Yesterday's Catch | Ulysses 100 | Cartoon Rodent | Daddy Issues | Do Nothings | Doghouse | JOH DEA | Caspar Redwood | Dishonoring Earth | Gargoyle | Piers Uncensored | Hawes Water | Marco Radio | Money Bricks | Censorship

Tres Amigas Do Southeast New Mexico

"It ain't new and it ain't Mexico," so says a popular bumper sticker. Everywhere we three traveled everything we saw was old, very old. Millions…

Mendocino County Today: Saturday, April 23, 2022

Warming | Stornetta Rainbow | Pot Taxes | Hendy Hike | Tiny Homes | Lighthouse Event | Warm Dinner | Ma Nature | Small Farming | Help Wanted | Big River | Alice Uninvited | Ed Notes | Rolling Assault | Small Planet | Ukraine | Relief Benefit | Double Billing | Disrespecting People | Bookshop Events | Indoctrination | Project Sanctuary | SS Seafoam | Environmental Extremists | Silverman Again | Yesterday's Catch | Charade Over | Army Knives | Fake Cards | Typo Notice | Wacky-Ass Letters | Perilous Point | Moe Berg | Imported Pharmacists | Stewart's Point | Voter Registration | Lumber Dealer | Marco Radio | Proto Batgirl

The Etymology of 420

Your correspondent got invited to an “Eve-of-420” bash on April 19, 2016, at a club in San Rafael started by the Phil Lesh of the…

Beer Fest Kick-Off

The King Street Giants will be playing live at the AVBC Beer Park in Boonville, April 22 from 6-8pm. Free admission. All ages welcome.

Mendocino County Today: Friday, April 22, 2022

Showers End | Rick Weddle | Pharmacist Charged | Mural Celebration | Bookstore Events | Firefighter BBQ | ALRFD Fundraiser | Eel Free | Shields Report | Chef Salad | Borges/Gurr Ruling | Eel River | ADA Blindness | Ed Notes | Ukraine | Agrihood | Animal Control | G Man | Tenant Protection | Albion Mill | Perez Guilty | Robert Morse | Mendocino Theatre | Italia Hotel | Dead Fox | Cannabis Market | Flying Cowboy | Fringe Festival | Meth/Weed Mobile | Yesterday's Catch | Systemic Breakdown | Dimmick 1940 | Mandel Ballad | Crucified Couple | Unacceptable Views | Gertrude Carpenter

Coast Hospital: The Backstory

Failing to disclose expenditure of public funds for legal services appears to be nothing new for some members of the Mendocino Coast Health Care District…

Raising Wheat In Anderson Valley

Wheat was one of the main crops raised in Anderson Valley by the first homesteaders. In 1864, John Gschwend built a waterwheel powered grist mill…

Mendocino County Today: Thursday, April 21, 2022

Showers | Palace Plans | Westport BBQ | Suspicious Death | Riding Club | Candidate Statements | Virtual Forum | Flying Blind | Beerfest Breakfast | Ed Notes | Meat Market | Ukraine | Standing Cowgirls | Reefer Man | Cannabis Market | Animal Tracks | Hiker Rescue | Mendo Economy | Dance Hall | Stayner Brothers | Monroe Landing | Robot Insurance | Caspar Chute | Adventist Prediction | Mendo Mill | Doctor Exodus | Yesterday's Catch | Saint Orwell | Most Embarrassing | Solitary Crow | Mural Event | Wine Prices | James Arness | Food Vendors | The Arcanes | Ukraine Wildlife | Native Friends | Caspar School | Lawyers Cut | Preconscious | Manchester Rancheria | Big Tech

County Notes: Shortchanging Local Ambulances

Last Wednesday at the Anderson Valley Community Services District budget committee, AV Fire Chief Andres Avila told the committee that the Valley’s volunteer ambulance service…

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