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Posts published in December 2024

Mendocino County Today: Saturday 12/7/2024

Forks Cafe | Mostly Cloudy | Sea Stacks | Seven Injured | Lisa Walters | Redwood Classic | Huge Mess | T & U | AV Ponds | Two-Inch Stack | Emergency Alerts | Lineman Schwarm | Shop Local | Planning Commission | Festive Fun | Crafts Fair | Birthday Friscia | Kitten Oz | Holiday Party | Nelson Brothers | Holiday Bazaar | P&F Bills | Yesterday's Catch | Judge Thomas | Wine Shorts | Tomales/Tam | PG&E Bills | Participle Ghost | Private Hydrants | Want Change | Marco Radio | O Tannenbum | Housing Mandatory | Very Wrong | Book Facts | Delay, Deny | Sinking | Real Villains | Soda Case | Says Everything | Citizen Welles | Execution Song | Hookers | Apologies Afroman | No Stocking | TV Rack | Lead Stories | Double Deadlock | Ms Zorro | Joe Pardons | Cockroaches | Gladiator Soundtrack | Pachyderm Pal

Letters 12/7/2024

An application has been submitted to the Mendocino Historic Review Board to demolish the water tower as a third attempt to disregard the important landmarks of Mendocino, this time with a plan to replace it with stairs.…

Bill & Me And The Dems

Quick Weather Report Since this Pineapple Express hit at 9pm Tuesday night on Nov. 19, bringing .12 inches of precip, Wednesday 5.96 inches fell, 6.61 inches on Thursday, 1.54 inches on Friday, .62 inches on…

Mendocino County Today: Friday 12/6/2024

Disheveled | Mostly Sunny | Duenas Correction | Venus | Ferndale Earthquake | Missing Manuel | Shields Report | Greenwood Fair | Community Dinner | Mendo News | Boonfire | JDSF Comment | Toy Run | Adventist Shuffle | Parents Night | The Hitchhiker | Drive-Thru Tree | Ken Anderson | Neto Hotel | Billy Lou | Yesterday's Catch | Fruit Planets | Deportation Plans | Julia Morgan | Capitalist Exploitation | Getting Cold | Peppers Sweater | Detention Center | Yantiss Family | Blanket Pardons | Plays Cello | Chomsky 96 | Genocide Stain | Fixing FBI | Johnson/Ketchel Bout | Lead Stories | Springtime | CEO Killing | Butaritari Island

Valley People 12/6/2024

TINY HOMES, BOONVILLE STYLE. Last April we published a brief plug for two local guys who had announced that they were setting up some kind of tiny home production business. But there wasn’t much else…

Family News? None For Me, Thanks

I once described my family as “six abrasive oddballs” led by “parents from Neptune and three siblings I never knew. All the kids ignored each other except when tormenting younger ones, while mom and dad…

Mendocino County Today: Thursday 12/5/2024

Mendocino Coast | Clearing | Redwood Classic | Feisty Shoplifter | Election Results | Burn Permits | Free Food | Ed Notes | Santa Appearances | Alleged Mystery | Jim Dietz | Terrorism Expert | Holiday Party | Thrift Sale | Surendorf Biography | Boat Parade | Covelo Hotel | Jones Jewelry | Yesterday's Catch | Senior Dinner | Follow Up | Judge Thomas | SF 1930s | D.C. Done | Central Player | Bears Party | Oil Lawsuit | Marx Brothers | Lead Stories | Violent Revolution | Bob Stevenson | Military Spending | Pollywogs | Nominee Bargaining | Jukebox | Gleichschaltung | Breakfast | Third-Party Voting | Mustachio | Trump Voters | Carrying Water

Misplaced Blame

We’ve known for years that Mendocino County department heads do their own budget tracking and reporting and that those reports have been requested by Supervisor Williams periodically, with no support from his colleagues. We recently…

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