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Posts published in January 2024

An Old-Timer’s Guide To SSI

You are eligible to receive Supplemental Security Income, SSI payments (about $914 a month), if you are blind or disabled or over sixty-five, and have $2000 or less in the bank. (In this essay I’m…

Valley People (January 19, 2024)

HIGHWAY 128 WAS CLOSED for a couple of hours early Sunday morning. It reopened at 9:49 am SOUP MAKING WITH LAUREN KEATING Sunday, January 21, 3 to 4:30 PM Anderson Valley Senior Center Refreshments served…

Mendocino County Today: Thursday, Jan. 18, 2024

Gusty | Little Lake | Mechanic Solution | Bluff Hike | Ed Notes | Presbyterian Church | Deplorable Supes | Livestock Capturing | Butterfly Release | Crab Feed | Pet Tips | Springs Token | Cell Donors | Skull House | Lumber Rafts | Tango Concert | Restricted Area | Candidate Forums | Yesterday's Catch | Modern Society | Caucus History | Meet Again | Big Job | SF Tower | Packers Looming | Mendo Purdy | Park Meaning | Cultural Shift | State Budget | Weasel Pronouns | Five Omnicides | Jersey Shore | Fundamentalism Curse | Heavens | Perfect | Democracy

Anderson Valley: An Undiscovered Gem [1886]

Having been a resident of this county for nearly 30 years, I thought I might by your aid become, to a limited extent, a public benefactor, especially to the homeseeker. I propose to give to…

Off the Record (January 18, 2024)

ONE YEAR, I CELEBRATED Martin Luther King’s birthday by paying HBO $46 on a Saturday night to watch Mike Tyson knockout Francois Botha. I’d better say here that I think it’s way past time to…

Mendocino County Today: Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2024

Cloudy | Attendance = Success | Panther Wins | BOLO Jones | Park Upgrades | Ed Notes | Squirrel Proof | Integrity? | Box Van | Vet Parking | Taco Truck | More Questions | Air Quality | Trestle Beach | Not Prepared | Fiji & Soup | Catamount | MUSD Violations | Complex Reality | Book Recommendation | MCHCD Board | Watering | Ask Jared | Route 254 | Candidate Forums | Yesterday's Catch | Oakdale's Finest | 2am Club | Dog Attack | Smoky QB | Starvation Warfare | Fund War | Senate Vote | Carpet Bombing | Destroy Gaza | Catcher Cover | Candidate Cornel | Saying Grace | Prude's Alphabet | April 1968

County Vets Fighting Forced Move

By far the most interesting topic discussed at the Board of Supervisors meeting this past Tuesday, Jan. 9 was not even on the agenda.  It arose during public comment, when numerous military veterans addressed the…

County Notes: Misplaced Complaint

Jacqueline Williams of Ukiah’s Ford Street Project commented on our recent article entitled ‘The Betrayal of Measure B’ on Facebook after someone re-posted it on Mendocino News Plus. Facebook is a poor vehicle for discussing…

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