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Posts published in April 2024

Off the Record (April 19, 2024)

A READER COMMENTS: “It gets down to this, elections are important.” “LAZARUS” (of Willits) responds: Your observations are all too common throughout the county, State, and Country. Once, political offices were held by people who…

Mendocino County Today: Thursday 4/18/24

Warm | Ridgewood Ranch | Hopland Farmers | Laytonville Fundraiser | AVUSD News | Footsteps | Rhodie's Recommended | Irv Sutley | Chamber Music | Free Soup | County Budget | Succulents | B Realities | Hair Care | AV Village | CA Amenities | Harden Parole | Phone Service | Advertise AVA | Yesterday's Catch | Malmgren Departure | Respect Women | Longmire Refill | Tax Day | Protest Feedback | Punt Gun | Unresolvable Situation | Meeting Frida | Zoo Turmoil | Relationship | Berliner Resignation | Hang On | Ruling Class | White Man

County Notes (April 18, 2024)

Most of Public Expression at the beginning of last Tuesday’s Supervisors meeting consisted of about a dozen locals asking the Board for a resolution calling for a Ceasefire in Gaza. Supervisor Williams said he was…

Take Back San Francisco

It's official. Aaron Peskin -- the best person to run our city, the mayoral candidate whom every thinking progressive wanted desperately to run -- has entered the race.  At his kickoff rally today in San…

Mendocino County Today: Wednesday 4/17/24

Warming | Glass Beach | Zapata Caught | 100 Women | Print End | Community Meeting | Trevor Cooper | BHAB Meeting | Direct Action | Abandoned Building | Rate Hikes | Summer Gardening | Artificial Thoughts | Dress Codes | Electrician | Fully Updated | Folk Festival | Exceptional Fan | Boonville Distillery | Boonville Lodge | Yesterday's Catch | Has Equipment | Team USA | Google v Journalism | Rustcycle | Aquarium Lesson | Beaver Family | Huge Trout | Super Busted | NPR Flap | Tax Evasion | FISA Surveillance | Hattie McDaniel | Israeli Sadism | Plumber Pete | Gaza Thoughts | Titanic Millionaires | In Berlin | Right Fuel | Kesey Interview | Diebenkorn Woman | Einstein/Spinoza | Billboard Faith

Last Week In Ukiah

Intricate and costly legal maneuvers delay proceedings in the high-stakes criminal case Mendocino County District Attorney David Eyster filed last Fall against a fellow elected official, county Auditor Chamise Cubbison. Because of a new Eyster-triggered…

Recollections of Fort Despair

The original AVA compound, aka Fort Despair, was the Boonville headquarters of the America’s Last Newspaper, but also ground zero for an ongoing social experiment featuring a non-stop parade of visitors, victims, concerned parents, perpetrators,…

Mendocino County Today: Tuesday 4/16/24

Sunny | Turkey Tails | Shots Fired | Skunk Illusion | Finger Fern | Palace Pressure | Om Circle | Ed Notes | Redwood Furniture | Senior Center Dinner | Krenov Talk | Boontling Classic | Sutley Tribute | Rummage Sale | Beacon Deal | Hip Replacement | Edmundson Affair | Yesterday's Catch | Confrontation | Gaza Protests | Orphanage | Fatuous Clamour | Comparing Rates | Library Tale | Entertainer Esch | Vivid Life | Stormy Thing | Fan Boy | Zacatecas | Blacksmith | NPR Boss | Trump Trials | French Female

Letters (April 16, 2024)

Seems like no one responds to emails or phone call messages left for the Jury Services group anymore. They used to transfer jury service to the Ten Mile Court for those living on the coast, but reportedly no longer…

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