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My Jewish Christmas

I did what Americans Jews are supposed to do on Christmas. I ate Chinese food. Not alone, but with three other members of my family: my two younger brothers and my sister-in-law who was born…

Bonanno Found, Deceased

On 01-01-21 Sheriff's Deputies, Mendocino County Search & Rescue volunteers, South Coast Volunteer Fire Department personnel and Redwood Coast Fire Department personnel continued the search for Kerry Ann Bonanno on her property. Today's search consisted…

70+ Cases: Mendo Jail Update

On December 31, 2020, the Sheriff’s Office received the results of the COVID-19 testing that was done on the jail population December 26 and 27, 2020.  As expected, the number of confirmed cases amongst the…

Mendocino County Today: January 2, 2021

Brief Break | Rainfall Totals | No Bonanno | Albion Mill | Just Sayin' | Big Logs | Roy Retires | Bud & Harwood | Get Tested | Naked Ladies | NPR Trap | Beach Scene | Agenda Highlights | ODs & Suicides | Russian Gulch Pier | Ed Notes | New Identity | AV Village | Yesterday's Catch | Nonagenarian Drivers | America 2020 | Big River | 20 Democrats | Newsom Recallers | Coast Vista | Rogue Regimes | Hello 1919 | Goodbye 2020 | Quarantine Dating | 74 Million | Final Swim | 2021 Predictions | Efficient Death | Marco Radio | Pelosi Vandalization

Ranching Near Laytonville, 1902-1907

When we were growing up around Laytonville in the 1900s, Papa used to say that folks in California need never go hungry if they have piece of ground and are willing and able to work.…

Water & Power in California

Some sleuths have a detective gene. One of them is my brother Adam, a PI for the past 40 years who tells me that everyone lies: cops, criminals, judges and lawyers. I think of Mark…

Mendocino County Today: January 1, 2021

Expect Rain | New Year | Electric Ball | Jail Outbreak | 71 Cases | Covid Odds | Him Hymn | Noyo Surfer | 2020 Deaths | Marshall McKay | Missouri House | Different Impressions | Ferris Wheel | Suicides & ODs | Russian Gulch | Housing Market | Mendo Postcard | Covelo Six | Four Lawyers | Money Radio | Bridge Exhibit | Goodbye Milla | Book Lists | Darker Days | NY 1938 | Toxic Wood | Yesterday's Catch | Supreme Stats | Tree Horse | Skinflint Mitch | Fireworks Factory | Auld Lang | Cliff House | Barcalounger Brigade | Christian Heretics | Hail Britannia | 2020 | Advocating Socialism | $1.64/Day | Wokest Stories | Criminally Homicidal | Found Object

Cookies to Kodiak

Christmas Cookies. Just the thought of warm freshly-baked cookies gives one a cozy, fuzzy holiday feeling. That’s what I was thinking when, a couple of days after Thanksgiving, I realized that soon Christmas would be…

Covid Outbreak at Mendo Jail

At least 51 inmates and corrections staff at the Mendocino County Jail have now tested positive for COVID-19 in the first widespread outbreak at the jail, according to the Mendocino County Sheriff’s Office. The newly…

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