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Off the Record 7/6/2024

FORMER COUNTY TREASURER-TAX COLLECTOR SHARI SCHAPMIRE: “Ms. [Sara] Pierce [Auditor-Controller/Treasurer-Tax Collector] told the Board that the County has lost about $22 million in tax defaulted properties that have gone uncollected for years and thus written…

Kinky Friedman (1944-2024)

When I read Kinky Friedman's obituary the other day I felt like crying and laughing. Laughing because I laughed at the lyrics to many of his songs, including “They Ain't Makin' Jews Like Jesus Anymore,”…

Mendocino County Today: Friday 7/5/2024

Willits Parade | Heat Wave | Carrier | Heat Illness | Evening Light | Agenda Notes | Local Events | Catching Sixto | Assault Victim | New Stripe | Lahn Art | Salvia | Ed Notes | Aloe | Colfaxtoids | Point Arena | Sixties Giants | Yesterday's Catch | Don't Wait | McSecret | Grid Bill | Was Rigged | Diablo Disgust | Today Spesial | Water Restrictions | Conn Hallinan | Ignorant Power | Remembering Ringo | Fighting Sugar | Carrots | Theroux Writing | Booty Call | No Vacation | Smokey Says | Disunited States | Oil 'N' Blood | This Fourth | Us or We? | Common Sense | Potatohead | NYT Stories | Scare Me | President Addled | More Sleep | Street Memories | American Genocide | Supreme Check | Machine Age | Melons | Windchime | Happy Birthday

The Fourth of July, 2024

Once upon a time, there was America, and it was great, or at least that's what my teachers taught. Then I grew up, and one by one over the decades of my life, the grand…

The New Normal On The Streets

On Wednesday, June 26, 2024 our deputies were called to the report of a stolen bicycle. In a short amount of time, they were able to locate it in a homeless camp along with the…

Valley People 7/5/2024

JIM JOHNSON has died. Anderson Valley will remember him as an effective and highly regarded superintendent of our schools. Cindy and Jim Johnson are long-time residents of Elk. LARRY FUENTE Long-time Comptche resident and well-known…

Mendocino County Today: Thursday 7/4/2024

111° | More Heat | Ukiah Temps | AV Outage | Tom English | Standing By | Dump Fire | High Temps | Lakeshore | Excessive Heat | Blues Cancelled | Mystery Assault | PA Weekend | Shields Report | Vaqueros | Window Closed | Local Events | Roberta Ann McNeil-Wood | FB Report | Planning Cancelled | Stickered | Ed Notes | Past Parade | Art Walk | Music Festival | Look Away | Photo Mystery | Yesterday's Catch | Dopamine Culture | AC Prayers | Old Codger | AIPAC Fear | Citizen Man | Acting Guv | 2 Dads | DMV Day | All Fine | State Farmed | Found Poe | Thanks Klay | Immigrants | Nov Ballot | Handling Stardom | Measure Withdrawn | Simple Life | Blockbuster Decision | Unforeseen Circumcisions | Crisis Averted | Patriot Speaks | Moonshiners | Anybody But | First Punch | NYT Stories | Moral Luck | Alito Fourth

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