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Valley People 10/24/2024

AV FIRE CHIEF ANDRES AVILA: I reached out to CalFire regarding the status of the Mountain House Road multiple fire investigation and the Grange Fire investigation knowing full well that investigation information is appropriately kept…

County Agenda Notes: Doing Less With More

For next Tuesday’s Board of Supervisors meeting, lame duck Supervisor Glenn McGourty has prepared a “presentation” (i.e., a few casual notes typed into a PowerPoint format-template) alleging that the Supervisors need more “staff support” so…

Mendocino County Today: Wednesday 10/23/2024

Mild | Matson Benefit | Physical Therapy | Fraser Memorial | AV Artists | Free Food | Football Rankings | Friend Opossum | Finger Pointing | Bans | Lights Festival | Fur Elise | Abalone Memories | Gardening | Defamatory Statements | Hot Damn | Ed Notes | Yesterday's Catch | Unsubsidized | Cloverdale Esmeralda | Popcorn Sutton | Bum Adjacent | Restaurant Work | Nosey Banker | VW Van | SQ Giants | Fat Men | One Wish | Butkus & Sayers | Lead Stories | Kill Twitter | Fry Cook | Shooting Children | Bibi Drone | Holocaust Return | Visitors | The Moon

Calling All Masochists

We can and do empathize with those who for circumstances unexplained and perhaps inexplicable, toil at tasks that cannot be accomplished. A man spending his days, years and lifetime pushing a boulder up a steep…

Revisiting White Man

My sorta friend, White Man, was ecstatic at San Francisco’s growing Asian population. Chuckling in anticipation of a Tiananmen-like purge of the hundreds of metropolitan irritations besieging him, White Man would say, “When the Chinese…

Mendocino County Today: 10/22/2024

Cool | Sunset | Frost Fans | Local Schools | Terrible Decision | Songbird Singalong | Hospital Advice | Measure S | Hopland Spooktacular | Adding Road | Art Sale | Ed Notes | Jah Musica | Cemetery Tour | Rooms Available | Mendocino | Race Dialogue | Mushroom Dinner | Candidate Greer | Tallman House | Yesterday's Catch | AIPAC Candidate | Hit Piece | Third Eye | Hetch Hetchy | True Tale | Busted | Professional Boxer | Bluebird | Mowing | Ailing Niners | Wedded Bliss | Montana Benched | Scary Signs | Panic Switch | Fascism/Fascist | Lead Stories | Votenstein | Jill Signs | Demsperation | Vietnam | Election Results | Arming Israel | Stopped Thinking | Vote No | Goodbye Lebanon | Iron Tail

Sometimes You Get Lucky

“Yes,” someone even casually acquainted with me might say, “sometimes you do. And sometimes you go through life with a shamrock-festooned horseshoe hovering over your head like a protective halo, allowing you to continue drawing…

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