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Posts published in May 2023

Boonville Public Water System Questions & Answers

On Monday, April 24, 2023, I attended the Anderson Valley Community Services District (AVCSD) Water Planning Project meeting at the firehouse in Boonville. In attendance were two representatives of SAFER (California’s safe and affordable water…

The Shadow Box (Part 3)

A good sharp sense of the absurd is a great asset in life, and there was a lush crop of 50s TV shows ready and able to help us develop it. “Queen For a Day”…

Mendocino County Today: Friday, May 5, 2023

Showery | Skate Park | Correction | Garden Beds | Brooktrails | Grocery Outlet | Orchard Fog | Desalination Project | Candidate Mockel | Seven Mile | Candidate Norvell | Boonville Classic | Noyo School | Philo Blues | Arena Painkillers | Community Chorus | Variety Show | Latin Jazz | Arena Cemetery | BBC Interview | Swedish Books | Covelo Exposition | History Wall | Art Walk | Abalone Diving | Booze Run | Yesterday's Catch | Green Day | Go Around | Game 2 | LeBron Fan | Stabbing Suspect | Killing Machine | Lazy Medicine | Nostalgic Smells | Vesuvio | Tucker Talk | Youthful Body | Tombstone Town | Scripted Comedians | 1944 Teens | Papers Principle | Reserve Currencies | Ukraine | Persuader | Museum Pieces | Never Surrender

Ownership Dispute Shadows Ukiah Valley’s Event Showcase

Rivino Winery is a happening Ukiah Valley showcase on the eastside of Highway 101. It is a wine tasting and entertainment venue with swag. Beyond the tasting room is a tent-covered performance area with a…

MLB Will Accept Pesos

On the eve of the San Francisco Giants and San Diego Padres recent two-game series in Mexico City, the Chronicle ran a long piece by Susan Slusser on April 28 about “The Giants’ Mission for…

Eat, Get Poisoned. Don’t Eat, Starve.

I’ve always thought the fastest way to make a bunch of money is to steal a U.S. Mint printing press and start running off 20s in the garage. Not so sure anymore.  A car wash…

Mendocino County Today: Thursday, May 4, 2023

Scattered Showers | Cloudscape | Wildflower Show | High Tea | Mobile CRV | Redwood Valley | Bookshop Hiring | Realtor Allman | Pillsbury Reduction | Holcomb Talk | Seaweed Jobs | Stages Meet | FEMA Assistance | Time Bomb | Apple Blossoms | Ed Notes | Marmon Bound | Train Wreck | Yesterday's Catch | Other Dimension | Red Dot | Dos Rios | Hello Consumer | Radioactive Vapor | Feinstein Finale | Eureka Video | Necessary Drugs | Naming Haystacks | Tax Rich | Many Bananas | Release Julian | Proceed | Handling Losses | Ukraine | Comedy Museum | Dumbest Thing | Aldous Huxley

Grape Growers Grab Gobs of Water During Drought

At the end of a record-setting three-year drought from 2020 to 2022, the Mendocino Wine industry managed to produce a comparative record amount of grapes in 2022, almost 62,000 tons, 30% more than the previous…

Supes To Repeal Unlawful Public Records Ordinance

As most of you know, for the past month I’ve written a series of columns, drawn from legal briefs I’ve prepared, outlining how County Ordinance 4705 (so-called Public Records Act Ordinance) violated the California Public…

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