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Posts published in March 2023

Mendocino County Today: Monday, March 20, 2023

Clearing | Wandering Goats | Childcare Job | Healing Catfish | Space Debris | O'Connell Memorial | Vernal Equinox | Mendo Foilies | MacKerricher Beach | Grants | Curious Closet | Kramer Howl | MAC Benefit | Spiritual Center | Westport Beach | Remembering Ricky | Variety Show | Rock Stop | Crow Clarifications | Northern Nights | Table Cat | Cold Steel | CYO Champs | Bart Book | Outhouses | Yesterday's Catch | Usual Post | President Inmate | Chron Fabrication | Izzy Einstein | Election Hostages | Hendrix SF | Pinky Date | Painters | Absent Father | BBQ | Cellar | Jim Bridger | Ukraine | Radioactive

Crawling With Buckeyes

I arrived in Ukiah a long time ago, back when stegosauruses roamed Laytonville, the Dead Sea was merely ill, and no one in Mendocino County had ever heard of marijuana. You might think these were…

Raphael Mechoulam

The Israeli chemist Raphael Mechoulam, who died last week at 92, should have gotten the Nobel Prize for his role in figuring out how marijuana exerts its effects within the body. ("Elucidating the endocannabinoid system,"…

Snow

Pale-jointed knuckles grip the wheel. Squinting, trying to detect shapes of any kind beyond your windscreen. This rates as a full-bore white-out. Zero visibility. Now you’ve lost sight of those blurred red tail-lights that were…

Mendocino County Today: Sunday, March 19, 2023

Light Rain | Howard Creek | Support Letters | Emogene Golden | Track Letters | Pet Rusty | Vocal Ensemble | Lighthouse Watch | Eel Restoration | Scott Dam | Gnar Bar | Rock Stop | Mendo Mill | Protocol Pissing | Wood Grain | Poetry Reading | AV Events | Witherall Papers | Symphony Concert | Vote Val | Prema Love | Must Go | Board's Fault | Yesterday's Catch | Marco Radio | Toward LA | Hollywood Propaganda | Irish Green | Reunification | Geronimo | Lynching Deplorables | Woke Stuff | Ukraine | Uncle Fun | Killed Sadat | Cat Mob

Boonville Water Project Q&A

On March 7th the AV Community Services District held a public information meeting for the parcel owners who live within the planned Drinking Water district. The well-attended meeting (in person and virtual) addressed the questions and…

The Willits Farewell

My ad hoc midnight threnody serves as a collective farewell–– To Mark and Ina Walker and her sister Mabel Black, Mark told me how to grease a wagon wheel and sharpen a scythe, and he…

Mendocino County Today: Saturday, March 18, 2023

Partly Sunny | Blattner Road | AVUSD Update | Benoit Art | Ed Notes | Second Opinion | Open Dam | Buckhorn 2011 | Vocal Ensemble | Kimberlin Talk | Hippie Aunt | Beth Ellen | Shelter Cove | Yesterday's Catch | Before Chainsaws | Another Day | Easter Carnival | Marco Radio | Irish Whiskey | SVB Run | Presidio Readings | Addressing Homelessness | Little Patriot | Coming Attractions | Fetch Rule | Joe Pepitone | Anti-Theft | Immigration Policy | She Persisted | Zombie Economy | Happy Trash | Ukraine | Annoying Dog | Woke Up | Great Fall | Irish Isle

‘Busy Solving Emergency, Paperwork Will Follow’

On Thursday, Feb. 23, around 6 pm, Highway 101 was closed in both directions from Willits to the Humboldt County line and motorists were stranded in Laytonville. The Laytonville Fire Department requested that my daughter…

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