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Off the Record (July 20, 2022)

SUPERVISOR GJERDE: In making the case for a water sales tax, at the June 21 meeting Supervisor McGourty said the Inland Water and Power Commission was looking for “about a million dollars a year in…

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…

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