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Off The Record 12/31/2024

A MENTAL HEALTH professional describes the County's mental health effort: “Law enforcement is now and always will be the first responders when a mental health crisis goes bad. Long gone — except in the three…

Pot Pulp

The paperback cover of Marijuana Girl that ran in yesterday's AVA was provided by Michael R. Aldrich, PhD – one of two that accompanied a review of the book in O'Shaughnessy's. Dr. Aldrich wrote: ‘Marijuana…

Mendocino County Today: Monday 12/30/2024

Chilly | 128 Flooded | Water Rescue | Jake Waggoner | Boonville Hotel | Corolla Found | Robert Lorentzen | Was Rich | Vigil Notice | New Year Celebrations | Ed Notes | Like Chicken | Don't Understand | Cauliflower Fungus | Beacon Power | Way Back | Yesterday's Catch | Fib King | 911 Again | Squirrel Love | Tunnel Vote | Blizzard Warning | 30 Minutes | Education Dilemma | Socialist NFL | Wha? | Likes Bernie | Fats Domino | Lead Stories | Jimmy Carter | Harvey Kurtz | National Hoax | Ideal Subjects | My God | Bat Signal | Sleeping Women | Deux Filles | Separation Illusion | Broken Mirror

Strategic Plans and The Insurance CEO’s Murder

Got a kick out of the December 17th Board of Supervisors agenda. Under the heading for the County Executive Officer’s report, was the following caption: “In May 2022, the Mendocino County Board of Supervisors approved…

Capturing Attention

Once upon a time the district attorney, or sheriff, or police chief would announce –unaided– that a crime had been committed, or a charge was being leveled, or the jury had decided x, y, or…

Mendocino County Today: Sunday 12/29/2024

Ephemeral Creek | Rain Tapers | Outside Dick's | Problem Solving | Missing Bounds | Hansen Responds | Tomki Monks | Incoming Supe | Pet Gramps | Beacon Specials | Theatre Fundraiser | AV Closures | Evaluation Day | Ed Notes | CV Starr | Remembering Cockburn | El Rancho Navarro | Yesterday's Catch | Never Seen | Sasquatch Search | Helping Pros | Top Cat | Marco Radio | Londons Boxing | Drone Encounter | Hella Easy | Gray Expectations | Female Trouble | Eat Healthy | If Guns | Theft Penalties | Loneliness/Freedom | Ideas Problem | Lead Stories | Eating Leftovers | Girl & Cat

Letters 12/29/2024

Here we are at Christmas. This is the time of year we receive cards, letters and visits at the office from many folks in the public who stop by and thank our deputies and dispatchers for their service.…

Remembering Richard Petersen

I was driving through the County last week and my mind began to travel along with me back to a time when I was younger. I thought about several people who I truly miss now…

Mendocino County Today: Saturday 12/28/2024

Wet | Bluffside | Laytonville Precipitation | Inmate Graduates | Mackerel Sky | Local Runners | Three Boonvilles | Pollackspotting | Super Fog | Aging Challenges | Dance Brigade | Book Signing | Dance Party | Ed Notes | Fraternal Monarch | Yesterday's Catch | Truncated Cedar | PUC Malfeasance | Frankenfish Shutdown | Ticket Abuse | Stop Genociding | Now Available | Breadbox Bottom | Marco Radio | Berzerkeley Heretic | Music Quality | Attention Seeking | L&M | Atheist Hymnal | Wolf/Coyote | Day After | Lead Stories | Ignored Stories | Naughty Kids | Kitchen Courtin' | Be Brave

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