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Posts published in March 2024

Mendocino County Today: Friday 3/22/24

Rainy/Breezy | Torch Lily | Atheists Prayer | Road Work | Navarro Resilience | Barn Cats | Toothwort | County Notes | Scam Alert | Sheriff's News | Domestic Violence | Walton Poem | Blood Drive | Mockel Amazed | Alfonso Story | Homeless America | Ralph Esmay | Ed Notes | Navarro Mill | Sea Story | Yesterday's Catch | Highway Depressions | Bridge Jumpers | Noir Novelist | Times Square | 2024 Election | Parliament | Antisemitism Dodge | Masked | Devil Terms | Spring Training | Last Invocation

A Mother’s Beheading Shakes Little River

Little River, Mendocino County — The night before the shooting and killing and roaring flames changed everything, Asahn Smith got a text from a friend he hadn’t spoken with in years. Fletcher Pinkham, his old…

Johnny Pinches, An Appreciation

We have always considered John Pinches to have been a good supervisor, certainly a much better supervisor than any of his four colleagues when one applies the standard of the greater good. The prevailing myth…

Mendocino County Today: Thursday 3/21/24

Calm Before | Sunset Sky | Domestic Murder | Pump Station Plan | Cape Horn Dam | Palace Emergency | Anaeyllis Gualalis | Library By Mail | Roadwork Intersection | Circumbureaucracy | Old Cadillac | Fingers Wiggle | Cook Job | Wine Biz | Mendocino Profile | Landline Backlash | Hawk Carving | Ed Notes | Tellyvision | Talmage Hopsital | David Colfax | Zilla Birthday | Palace Memories | Yesterday's Catch | Neeli Cherkovski | Computer Poem | 1920 Blues | School Attendence | Rico | Cheer Up | Jerk Coach | Free Seats | Hopkins Case | Senior Surprise | Greenwald Discussion | Oklahoma City | Rail Project | Inconsiderate Aloofness | The Sower

County Notes: Mendo’s Looming Mental Health Staffing Crisis

Sheriff Kendall told the ‘Like It Or Not’ podcast dudes in Ukiah recently that he will need an additional ten uniformed officers (and probably a few more non-uniformed) to staff the new “Mental Health Wing”…

Oscar’s Ring Of Fire

In those rare moments when the real pierces the illusions of Oscar Night, I grip the arm of my sofa, waiting for hidden burner rockets beneath the Dolby Theatre on Hollywood Boulevard finally to ignite…

Mendocino County Today: Wednesday 3/20/24

Cloudy | Sea Rocks | Hit & Run | Lake Mendocino | County Notes | Yurok Land | Lemons Sandwiches | Eden Bar | Good Newspaper | Casanova Concert | Engaged Sheriff | Eel Bridge | Ed Notes | Yesterday's Catch | Wish List | Ali & Wilt | Butt Out | SF Waterfront | THC Content | Dairy Tabs | Tribes Win | Lampoon 1973 | Joe Dream | Condor Club | Salmon Alternatives | More Fun | Actor Esposito | Great Compensator | Brahms Cleared | Norwegian Apples | Media Bloodbath | Stable Genius | Remembering McVeigh | Barber Shop

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