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Valley People (November 9, 2022)

ANDERSON VALLEY TAXPAYERS were shocked by their November property tax bill this week when they saw that the “Anderson Valley Unified Bond” tax add-on was a whopping 16% increase over their base property taxes. Measure…

Mendocino County Today: Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2022

Cold Rain | Coast | Skatepark Meeting | Property Tax | Blue Lake | 101 Fatality | Portly Punk | AV Village | F&G Meeting | Sunset | Soccer Match | Pack Train | Thistling | Dog Damn | Youth Art | Boaters | Grange Events | Supe Holiday | Albion Loggers | Yes P | Ukiah Morning | Ed Notes | Train Depot | Eclipsed | Blood Moon | Pot Portal | Little Rivens | PG&E Webinar | Pea Pickers | Green Light | LakeCo Centennial | Dear Defendant | Middletown 1890 | Feathers Prelim | Next! | Tribe Safety | Tuck In | Eel Friends | Next Vacation | Covered CA | Yesterday's Catch | Ego Musk | Vanity Project | We Lost | Beautiful Moment | Always Classy | Lying Wrong | Real Steal | Wake Me | Unhappy Voter | Suffragettes | Early Returns | Quinine Whiskey | Civil War | Breadhead | Lotto Dream | Castling | Ukraine | Earth

Another Day At People’s Park

To the eye of a tourist from another city, the plot of land in Berkeley, California that’s known as People’s Park might look like a hurricane hit it. The trunks of huge trees are scattered…

iPhone Upgrade

Something amazing happened when I went to get a new phone last year: I didn’t buy one, because instead of pressuring me to spend a bunch of money, the salesperson helped me keep my old…

Mendocino County Today: Monday, Nov. 7, 2022

Cold Wet | Purse Found | Car Vandalism | Lake Resort | 128 Fatality | Magic Milk | Possible Meteorite | Railroad Coming | Equity Issue | Future Man | Ordinance Stuck | Clear Lake | Orgasm Inc | Ray's Resort | Yesterday's Catch | Record Jackpot | Gas Price | Salty Ham | Self-Respect | Phony Baloney | Paparazzo Portofino | 10th Commandment | Sick Notice | SF Encampments | Ukraine Poster | Hawk Squad | Bonnie & Clyde | Dem Dilemma | Forgotten Past | Pandora Pubs | World End | Fact Resistance | Yogi Sailing

Scripture & Strategy

Reputable cannabis clinicians and righteous activists want the Medical Board of California to close down the “recommendation mills” that provide 18, 19, and 20-year-olds with access to dispensaries where they can buy megadoses of THC.…

Meditations On The Dodge Dart

For a period of 32 years, from 1988 to 2020, I owned a grand total of two automobiles. Both were Dodge Darts that had rolled off the Chrysler assembly line in the early 1970s. The…

Mendocino County Today: Sunday, Nov. 6, 2022

Cold Rain | Golden Ratio | Longest Day | Native Month | Yesterday's Rainfall | Pet Hansel | AVUSD Updates | Boonville Skatepark | Symphony Concerts | Logging | Watershed Lab | Casa Verde | Ed Notes | Soft Tacos | Local Vets | County Openings | Libraries Survey | Scott Dam | Mushroom Season | Massini Failed | Yesterday's Catch | Marco Radio | Milk Truck | Cannabis Crop | Health Hazard | Batshit Party | Old McDonald's | Constitutional Sheriffs | Punk Accountants | Robert Morris | Hiking Buddy | Bifurcated World | Ukiah Farmers | Being Human | Many Hammers | Ukraine | Folly

Willie & Me, 1972-2018

I first met Willis Tucker in the early spring of 1972. I had moved to Anderson Valley the year before, bought part of the old Ingram Ranch in Navarro with the intent to plant wine…

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