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Posts published in March 2024

Mendocino County Today: Friday 3/8/24

Cool & Clear | Variety Show | Septic Success | Loaner Sheep | County Notes | Ballot Counters | Love Adam | Old Office | Paint Job | Garden Starts | Beach Stroll | Ed Notes | Plungo | Name Change | Science Fair | Pastel | Volunteer Training | Unity Club | Remember Them? | Climate Resilient | Neil Benefit | Toxic GP | Planning Cancelled | Yesterday's Catch | Give More | Cafe Terrace | Murder | SOTU | Shrinkflation | Gaza/Israel Aid | Free Speech | Funny Stickers | Reason v Emotions | Tadich Grill | Wrongly Convicted | Furry Lewis | Alcatraz Escape | Dust of Snow

Transparency Or Secrecy?

Mendocino County tries to portray itself as transparent. That couldn’t be farther from the truth. As someone who has continually researched and tried, for several years, to obtain detailed records from our County, this is…

Valley People (March 8, 2024)

TO OUR READERS OF THE AVA'S PAPER-PAPER We knew the day would come, and it has. We're old and ailing and no longer able to meet the physical and bureaucratic demands presented by the production…

Mendocino County Today: Thursday 3/7/24

Sunny | Kwan Tai | Shields Update | New Lieutenants | Election Night | FFA Trip | Election Notes | Variety Show | Abandoned Vehicles | Liberty Control | Planning Workshop | Temple Entrance | New Coordinator | Neil Benefit | Ed Notes | History Day | Release Concert | Stupid/Lazy | Yesterday's Catch | Scooter | Sako Radio | Light Spot | Prop 1 | Blue Vote | Immigrants | Wimps | Obviously | Native Plants | Awkward Truths | For You | Locked Out | Soy Chorizo | Allegedly | Ferlinghetti | Party/Cult | Bed Maid | Sachs Interview | Think Differently

State Agency Leaves Palace Grant Decision In Limbo

A state agency on Friday left hanging a decision about the fate of a controversial $6.6 million taxpayer-funded scheme to demolish the historic Palace Hotel in Ukiah that is sought by a Mendocino County tribe…

Election Follies

It’s hard to know what to think about the compost bucket mess of a scandal at county elections, but I’m having fun trying. How about a Netflix series about a zany batch of incompetent government…

Mendocino County Today: Wednesday 3/6/24

Clearing | 253 View | Early Returns | Rogers Leads | Yard Signs | Hopland Tap | Ed Notes | Overpass View | Skunk Hearing | Neil Benefit | Lightning Fire | Skatepark Video | Circle Petition | AVA Guam | FB Trestle | History Monitor | Peters/Garvey | Dial Phones | Yesterday's Catch | Jail Deaths | Ganja Giant | Biased News | Lying Media | Little Psychopaths | Spring Superbloom | Undress | Prop 1 | Embrace Fate | Blame/Credit | Bourbon Dinner | Monkey Engineer | Seals Stadium | American Psycho | Beach Run

Supes Cave: Vets Office To Return To Observatory

Several dozen local veterans packed last Tuesday morning’s Supervisors meeting again to demand fair treatment. Supervisor John Haschak tried to cool down the frustrated vets by telling them that he was going to host a…

AVA Suspending Publication Of Print Edition

Mendocino County’s Anderson Valley Advertiser newspaper, long a maverick in the nation’s media world, is suspending its weekly print edition, choosing to rely only on a daily online version to get the word out. “We’re…

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