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Posts published in October 2024

County Agenda Notes: Your Tax-Funded Supervisors At Work

Tuesday’s Board of Supervisors meeting has only two non-routine items: a presentation from the Probation Department about the new Pretrial Release program, and a discussion of a possible code change entitled “Guidelines for Development of…

Mendocino County Today: Wednesday 10/9/2024

Mainly Sunny | Reckless Burning | Rez Grows | Better Boonville | Yard Signs | PSPS Thanks | Fiesta Mexicana | Grape Report | Dogwood | Reelect Katzeff | Harbor Plan | Food Wagon | Information Coordinator | Comedy Show | Forest Service | Book Recommendation | Yesterday's Catch | Foggy Gate | City Notes | Enough Powder | Prop 35 | Prop 36 | Botox Enlightenment | More 36 | Test Pattern | Dam Removal | California Catastrophes | Lunch Counter | Good Journalism | Modern Dance | Fresno Poverty | Cracker Aisle | New Kicker | Niner Faithful | Gaza Destruction | War Criminals | Lead Stories | Loneliness | Taxes

Navarro’s Lost Sister City

Down the road from Navarro, very near the 1964 high water mark, there was once a thriving little town complete with post office, a school and a telephone exchange. It has disappeared almost without a…

Please Oh Please Fence Me In

Some friends recently returned from hiking the Appalachian Trail. Or maybe they’re leaving next week. No matter. I’m not interested in details of planning the trip or stories of adventures encountered. The whole hiking, biking,…

Mendocino County Today: Tuesday 10/8/2024

Cloverdale Dawn | Cooling | Gualala Gas | Mendo Incident | Epic Busts | Identity Thief | Cyclamen | Prop 36 | Prop S | Firefighters | Yes All | Fun One | Ray’s Station | Jim & Tammy | Ukrainian Documentary | Come a'Thistling | Rail Car | Whistleblower Cox | Clean Up | Ed Notes | System Fit | Yesterday's Catch | Government Sucks | Hurricane Milton | Illegal Hiring | Lady Lib | Grape Glut | Odd John | ED Interview | Wringer Washer | Eaze Layoffs | DC Tip | Niner Hope | Coach Shanahan | Deindustrialization | Long Overdue | Lead Stories | Please Help | Total Control | Honesty | ASU Disinfo | Sandbagged | If Only | Sheena | Organ Banquet | Lunch Delivery

Day Tripping – Perfect First Day Of Fall On Coast

Most days on the Mendocino Coast are beautiful, but last Sunday, the first day of Fall 2024, was quite possibly the most perfect day I’ve experienced there yet. First, the day started under a blanket…

Street Runnin’ Man, ’67-’68

It was a short walk to San Francisco's primary riot venues from my grungy tenement apartment at 925 Sacramento Street. Either up the hill to the Fairmont and the Mark Hopkins, or through the Stockton…

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