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Standley v. Ketchapaw

Many Mendocino County residents have at least heard of Doc Standley, the fearless lawman of the last decades of the nineteenth century. Some may have read about Doc's son, William Harrison Standley, who was both…

Deal Or No Deal?

If you are worried about the dioxins out on the mill site, you should be. Mayor Lindy Peters has conceded that neither he nor the City Council had the time or got paid enough to…

Heads, Snip, Kaboom

As a resident of the hoosegow (word nerd alert: from the Spanish juzgado, court), I've been doing a lot of things I normally wouldn't for the past six-and-a-half calendars. Number one, naturally, is spending 100%…

Market Music

Music may be the food love, as Shakespeare put it at the opening of Twelfth Night, but he could also have observed that music feeds on money. A few are made rich by their devotion to…

Mendocino County Today: Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2018

Storm Brewing;
K Decision;
Little Dog;
Schmidt Again;
Starstruck;
Barn Facelift;
Blackened Panther;
Grow-Houses;
NRA Friends;
New Headlight;
Civic Participation;
Yesterday's Catch;
Computer Ideas;
Probable Valor;
Iktome;
Cold Comfort;
Jazz Trio;
National Breakdown;
1936 Menu;
Gold Star;
Community Potluck;
Dinner Dance;
Korea Interview;
Teen Writers

Valley People (Feb 28, 2018)

Wintry, rain-free weather continues in the Anderson Valley, and everywhere else on the Northcoast. Local vineyards are wheeling leased frost fans into place, harbingers of a sleepless spring for much of the Anderson Valley and a fruit-less summer given that the premature budding caused by frigid nights and warm days has killed the blooms.

County Notes (Feb 28, 2018)

According to County Treasurer-Tax Collector Shari Schapmire the County has already collected some pot taxes. In fact, at the end of the Ms. Schapmire’s pot tax collection white paper/staff report, she appends the following summary of cannabis tax collections from January of 2017 to February 8 of 2018

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