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Posts published in March 2023

County Notes: Get Cubbison, Again?

Supervisor Williams posted the following allegation on line last week:  “Tuesday, March 14 BOS agenda item 4D is a ‘Presentation of Mid-Year Budget Report.’ Of particular concern to me is a projected reduction of $311k…

Letters (March 23, 2023)

After reading the report on this fiasco, I am flabbergasted that the head of the Cannabis Dept. still has her job. She made an error to the tune of $3.2 million…

Mendocino County Today: Wednesday, March 22, 2023

Partly Sunny | Calypso Orchid | Train Singer | Jughandle Rock | Shears Subdued | House Repair | Ed Notes | Mendocino 1868 | Seeking Sheila | Waidelich Case | Shanel Fundraiser | EBT Event | Black Point | Telling Quote | Seed Swap | Boonquiz | Poetry Celebration | Yesterday's Catch | School Bullies | Weaver Nest | Insulin/Narcan | Harley Baby | WPLJ Good | Hearst Castle | Tranq Warning | Howlin' Wolf | Bank Socialism | Critter Snack | Woke Defined | Ukraine | Tut's Chair | British Bond | Sears Home | Talls | Beethoven Creekside

Off the Record (March 22, 2023)

ALTHOUGH LEGGETT'S MELISSA ROSENTHAL went to all the 2020 redistricting meetings to lobby for the far north county to remain in the 3rd District where it's been for a hundred-plus years, and where Leggett also…

Valley People (March 22, 2023)

BOB O'CONNELL Memorial for Bob O’Connell: April 2 Please join family and friends to remember and celebrate the life of Bob O'Connell.  We'll be gathering on Pomo Tierra (at the main house) on April 2nd, 2023.…

Mendocino County Today: Tuesday, March 21, 2023

Showers | Houndstongue | Spring Sprang | Daffodils | Turkey Rail | Students Recognized | Casino Closure | Ed Notes | Welcoming Committee | Tsunami Test | Caspar Mill | Unity Club | Culinary Associate | Variety Show | Signs/Pennant | Thousand Calls | Yesterday's Catch | School Strike | Trump Toast | Math Problem | Petaluma Hatemonger | Giant Camera | Pizza Amleto | Expensive States | Divided/Conquered | Big Joe | Retirement Age | Mister Softee | Edna Beasley | Homecoming | For Posterity | Girl Run | Ukraine | Got This | Get Putin | Protesting War | Family Portrait | War Criminals | Tingling Spring

Slice Of The City

It’s early on Sunday morning at the Brushless Car Wash and I’m surprised at how many people are already here sitting in those horrible plastic chairs all facing the same way (backs to the sun).…

Remembering Wayne Shorter

This first musical nickname tagged him to the city of his birth: the Newark Flash. To a club called Lloyd’s Manor in Wayne Shorter’s hometown came Sonny Stitt in 1951. Stitt hailed from across the…

By Any Other Name

The other day at a red light, a Cadillac Escalade SUV sat in front of me, looming over the Toyota Cressida to its right. Suddenly it occurred to me that I had no idea what…

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