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Mendocino County Today: December 11, 2020

Rain Forecast | 38 New Cases | Birthing Officers | Rabies Clinics | Culinary Gifts | Vintage FB | Yule Jam | Beware Fentanyl | Old FB | Texting 911 | First Mill | Supes Notes | Hopland Tap | Ed Notes | Coast Home | Juvenile Mobile | Sandhill Cranes | Vice-Mayor Marta | Bird Stories | Stormy Coast | Enough Dispensaries | Yesterday's Catch | Big Secrets | Crab Boil | Biden Story | Trans Topic | Skunk Train | Money Love | Truly Tested | Beware MAGAstan | Echium & Ivy | Christmastime | Helping Hand | Paint Job

‘From Goat Herder To Mayor’

Wednesday night, Juan Orozco, Ukiah’s first Latino mayor, was sworn into office. Born on a rural ranch in the Mexican state of Michoacán, Orozco spoke told us of his many years working the vineyards of…

The View from Lake County

County elected officials and the impacts of their actions (or inaction, in the case of a few, like Mendocino’s Dan Gjerde) reflect life-long ambitions and collaborations that the mostly oblivious or at least inattentive “public”…

Mendocino County Today: December 10, 2020

Wet Weekend? | 57 Cases | Shelter Outbreak | Record Highs | Greenwood Creek | Feeding Students | Boonville Water Project | Missouri Hotel | Holiday Boost | Masonite Plant | Wine Rack | Big Logs | Narcan Saves | Revolution View | Interesting Tattoo | Verbal Only | Wiard Driving | Famous Oscar | Suspicious Tools | Rich Richer | Caltrans Wins | International Bridge | Ed Notes | Yesterday's Catch | Stop Polluting | Corpus Earthling | Comforting Lies | Hypocrite Lennon | American Politics | Coming Tsunami | Loser Dems | Found Object

Ukiah’s Contact Tracer Shortage

The 420 new cases of Covid-19 reported in Mendocino County last month was twice the number reported in October (210), and Ukiah City Manager Sage Sangiacomo warned this week that there are now simply too…

Another Valley Vista

I have been admiring Brad Wiley's Valley Vistas articles. There are probably only a few readers of the AVA who will know most of the dizzying display of homesteads, ridges, creeks, ranches and characters mentioned…

Lockdown, Drought & The Election

You could see this coming a million miles away. Governor Gavin Newsom has by now established a pattern of telegraphing his next, immediate move. A few days preceding the action to be taken, he gives…

Mendocino County Today: December 9, 2020

Clear Chill | 37 Cases | Surge Prep | Winter Shelter | Homeless Outbreak | Sixties Boonville | Blood Drive | Noyo Guard | Volunteer Firefighting | Swept to Sea | Symphony Merch | Sea Cave | Building Dept | Quake Damage | FB Hotspots | Old Mendocino | Ed Notes | Blowhole | Rubber Stampervisors | Bear Paw | Border Dispute | Hot Coaches | Mask Up | Yesterday's Catch | Water Futures | Bird Universe | America Prior | Faggy Grove | Covid Relief | Help Men | Challenging Flournoy | Grow Food | Reality Divorce | Thugshot Ornaments | Portlandia | Big Deals | Honor Student

County Notes (December 9, 2020)

Kathy Wylie recently posted the following summary of this Tuesday’s Board of Supervisors Agenda:  BOS 12/8/20 meeting agenda is packed…  Another packed BOS agenda for 12/8/20:  • County hazard mitigation plan  • August and Oak…

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