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Tainted Grants & Testy Gripes

The November Zoom meeting of the Mendocino Coast Recreation & Park District (MCRPD) Board of Directors lasted nineteen minutes. The most newsworthy item from the proceeding was the announcement that California State Parks had acknowledged…

Letters (December 9, 2020)

The entire county is watching. The citizens of Covelo are frightened. There is only one main paved road in and out of this cursed valley of genocide and death...

A Festival of Lights In Fort Bragg

Fort Bragg held its Holiday Lights Parade last Saturday night. The parade wasn't a sure thing this year. As Coronavirus case numbers in Mendocino County increased rapidly through early December, a vocal chorus grew to…

Valley People (December 9, 2020)

THE ANDERSON VALLEY FOOD BANK is more than ever as crucial to struggling local families as it's been in its long history. It can be cyber-contacted at andersonvalleyfoodbank.org. There is a donate button to press…

Mendocino County Today: December 8, 2020

Frontal Systems | Another Death | Leggett Volunteers | Big Surf | Lockdown Resistance | Yorkville Market | Tree Trimmers | Schultz Resignation | Colorful Bluff | Missing Whereases | Cabrillo Lighthouse | B Notes | Noyo Postcard | Moron Released | Rock Isle | Virtual Cannabis | Old Bridge | Ed Notes | Ship to Shore | Dysfunction Plus | Yesterday's Catch | Pearl Survivor | Empty Pews | Appity App | Transition Team | Wokies | Gray Pride | Activist Athletes | Tree House | Comments | Resolving Picture | Nose Off

My Brush with the Postal Service

Remember that conspiracy story in the run-up to the 2020 election? Trump was going to cripple the Postal Service by somehow defunding it while his henchman, Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, dismantled operations of the vote…

Mendocino County Today: December 7, 2020

Warm & Dry | 22 New Cases | ICU Beds | Masked Barber | 4.4 Quake | Daisy MacCallum | Grinch Grange | Rocky Shore | Old McDonald | Historical Society | AV Village | Early Mendocino | Tracing Overwhelmed | Kamikaze Parade | Missing Johnny | Toll Bridge | B Visions | Pearl Harbor | Ed Notes | Yesterday's Catch | Medical Miracles | Babe Ruth | PG&E Rates | Megadrought | Floating Cabin | Fragile Democracy | Human Chess | Continental Cuisine | Clearlake Monolith

French Laundry Flap Spotlights Capitol Insiders

Twenty-two years ago, on the day after Gray Davis was elected governor of California, I hopped aboard a Southwest Airlines plane bound for Los Angeles. I was heading south for Davis’ morning-after press conference and…

Mendocino County Today: December 6, 2020

High Pressure | 40 New Cases | Escaped Burn | Garcia Waterwheel | Philo Giftshop | Pet Togo | Joaquina Captured | Operation Neck Tat | Moss Hyperbole | No Prohibition | Ed Notes | Equipment Operator | Massive Failure | FB Rally | Narcan Save | Tourist Garage | CA Lockdown | Yesterday's Catch | Education Disaster | Mendo Barber | Worker Needed | Quieter Time | McCardle House | Small Thing | Breed's Apology | Pencil Revolution | Covid Joke | Marco Radio

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