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Posts published in May 2024

AVA Suspends Print Edition 

The last print copy of the Anderson Valley Advertiser, a weekly newspaper covering Mendocino County since 1952, arrived in local stores this week. Weeks before the May 1, 2024, edition was printed, longtime editor Bruce…

Mendocino County Today: Thursday 5/9/24

Warming | Ash & Harv | Jim Martin | Community Choir | Prohibited Person | HIV & Syphilis | Navarro Estuary | JAG Shuffle | Blue Pacific | Misguided Consolidation | Animal Hospital | New Margaritas | Bill Bradd | Duncan Peak | Ed Notes | Yesterday's Catch | Dead Creek | Homeless Crisis | Cold Coffee | $24 Billion | Recess | Wine Tears | Get It | Breast Obsession | Cinco Babe | Muir Story | Solar Powered | Not Welcome | Pro-Lifers | Huffman Disappointing | Lazy Congress | Protest Progress | New Slavery | Israel Shahak | Flower Garden

High-Stakes Cubbison Criminal Case Delayed Again

For the second time, criminal proceedings have been delayed in a case with significant political implications for District Attorney David Eyster, who filed a felony misuse of public funds charge last fall against Mendocino County…

Valley People (May 9, 2024)

AARON WELLINGTON: It is with great sorrow that I come here today to announce that my grandmother, Carolyn Wellington, passed away peacefully in her sleep Friday, May 3rd.  JOHN ROBERT SHANDEL passed away, surrounded by…

Board Delay In Redwood Valley Gas Station Buoys Hopes Of Critics

A developer criticized Mendocino County supervisors' decision to delay action on a controversial 10-pump service station/convenience store along the Highway 101 freeway at Redwood Valley but the decision buoyed critics' hopes. “In my opinion, a…

County Notes: Good News & Bad News

Next Tuesday’s Board Agenda Package features a “Fiscal Year 2022-23 Audit Progress Report” which begins: “The County utilizes Munis for budget and financial tracking and reporting purposes. Munis is a powerful tool, but the County…

Mendocino County Today: Wednesday 5/8/24

Warming | Well Seal | Appalled | Fern Fingers | Boss Petition | CRBN PIG | Bouncing Budget | Caffiend | Water Ruling | Patrona Owners | Giants Tickets | Ed Notes | Non-White Babies | Apologies Accepted | Park Concerts | Local Legends | Yesterday's Catch | Rounding Third | Seize PG&E | Camp Sasquatch | Fish Crisis | Tomato Companions | Cuckoo Clock | Beautiful Words | Killed Christ | Stormy Testimony | High Ideals | Inequality Inc | Open Fire | Cool Problem | Howl

Boonville Beer Fest 2024

“May the Froth Be With You” (in a very Star Wars kind of way) with more than 80 breweries. That’s what the posters for the 26th annual Boonville Beer Festival May 4th 2024 said. Unfortunately,…

On the Road With Sasquatch

In the summer of 1983 Ted Kaczynski was feeling hemmed in even in remote Lincoln, Montana. “There were too many people around my cabin,” he later wrote, “So I decided I needed some peace.” In…

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