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Posts published in May 2024

Supes Brown Act Problem Appears Resolved

For the past two weeks, we’ve been discussing a series of events where Board Chair Maureen Mulheren attempted to justify violations of the Brown Act, California’s Open Meeting Law. I’ll provide the punch-line now: I…

35th Annual Elk Rummage Sale

Last Saturday and Sunday from 10-4 downtown Elk was hopping as their 35th Annual Rummage Sale unfolded at the Greenwood Community Center. Sponsored by the Greenwood Civic Club all proceeds were earmarked for student scholarships,…

Off the Record (May 23, 2024)

THE COUNTY MUSEUM is located in Willits where artifacts of our unreal history are stored and displayed, including that tribute not all that long ago to hippies with no mention of Flower Child-ism’s downside HIPPIES,…

Mendocino County Today: Wednesday 5/22/2024

Cooling | Bittercress Patch | Larry Bensky | Western Gull | Iran-Contra | Elementary Scholars | Compost Giveaway | Sunny Side Up | County Notes | Mendo Montage | Extension Denied | Runner Norvell | Ed Notes | Yesterday's Catch | Gun Guy | Beautify Bakersfield | Starving Pelicans | Puppeteer | Comstock Act | Diddy Epstein | The Nature | Beer Never | Politics | Squeezing Assange | CDC Recommendations | Plagiarism Software | Jewish Community | Sounds Interesting | Fake News | ICC Warrants | Antisemitic Primer | US-Saudi Relations | The Bomb

County Notes: Delay, Confusion, Avoidance & Distraction

If you want to understand the turmoil in the County’s Public Health and Behavioral Health departments, you won’t get far listening to comments at Supervisors meetings. On the one hand you have the line employees…

Valley People (May 22, 2024)

GLORIA ABBOTT It is with a heavy heart that I announce the passing of Gloria Faye Abbott (Ornbaun). Gloria passed away peacefully in her sleep on Monday, May 13th, after a long battle of Dementia.…

Mendocino County Today, Tuesday 5/21/24

Sunny | Larry Bensky | PG&E Grass | Sports Awards | Gregory Noyes | Tiny Lotus | Walking Exercise | Candy Chaos | Boss Letter | BHAB Meeting | Egregious Behavior | Westport Waves | Bridge Lead | Book Box | Covelo Library | Granddaughter Pitching | Ed Notes | Treefrog | Helicopter Training | Yesterday's Catch | Economic Shapes | AB1999 Killed | Robert Mitchum | Mountain Biking | What The | Loss Prevention | Gourmet Lunch | Trans Athletes | The Crumps | Fugazy Land | Swallowed Up | Real Housewives | Civil Obedience | Country Vista

John Muir, The Untold Story

Cast Out of Eden: The Untold Story of John Muir, Indigenous Peoples, and the American Wilderness. By Robert Aquinas McNally. University of Nebraska Press; May 1, 2024 “Only to the white man was nature a…

Goodbye To All That [December 1999]

Somewhere around mid-November the Y2K whimpering died down out of sheer exhaustion. Humboldt County [where Cockburn lived at the time of this writing] is calm. A couple of weeks ago I asked the amiable Jim,…

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