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Valley People (July 20, 2022)

SOME POLL or other has confirmed that more than three-quarters of Americans believe they will be tightening their belts until at least the end of the year. Close to home, at its distribution last week,…

Demolishing the Congressman’s Office

In July of 2021 Congressman Jared Huffman’s Ukiah Field Office was nearly destroyed by a fire of still undetermined origin out on Low Gap Road: mendofever.com/2021/07/06/modular-building-on-ukiahs-low-gap-road-goes-up-in-flames/ Generously described at the time of the fire as…

State Considers Regulation of Wells

We officially closed out the precipitation year on June 30 with a very wet total of 47.25 inches, which is 70.5% of our historic normal of 67 inches in the greater Laytonville area. So we…

Low Juror Turnout

About one in three Mendocino County residents summoned for possible jury duty are failing to show up. Empty JuryRoom Court statistics show that more than 12,000 people failed to appear at the County courthouse during…

The Other Drought

State Senator Mike McGuire was in Mendocino County this week for a rather pathetic photo op.  On his facebook page McGuire posted: “A big water storage project is coming to the community of Mendocino -…

County Animal Shelter Requests Public’s Help

Richard Molinari, Shelter Director for the Mendocino County Animal Shelter said a recent Facebook post brought attention to a serious concern - an overabundance of animals housed at the shelter. On June 14, Molinari posted…

All Rise for the Cement Palace

State court officials are ready to call for bids for construction of a planned $118 million new Mendocino County Courthouse in Ukiah. The new court building will be erected on the south side of Perkins…

Off the Record (July 13, 2022)

DO YOU WANT OUT? A friend said he’d listened to a Bay Area talk show as serial callers said they would like to emigrate. I say, “Here’s your hat and what’s your hurry?” Couldn’t get…

COVID Fatigue

Let’s talk about COVID fatigue.  I am not talking about the lack of energy that some people feel after having an infection with COVID, but the fatigue that we are all feeling from hearing about…

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