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August Complex Update

[Oct 1] Fire Update: August Complex (South Zone) Size: 955, 513 acres Containment: 51% Personnel: 2,048 Start Date: August 17, 2020  Cause: Lightning Structures Threatened: 2,200 Structures Destroyed: 100  YESTERDAY’S ACTIVITIES: The newly positioned Pacific Northwest Team 2 continued to develop a strategy…

MCT: Thursday, October 1, 2020

Hot Wind;
Smoke Covered;
Power Supply;
Another Death;
Free Testing;
Spider Web;
Village Zoom;
Low Flow;
Small Claims;
Calistoga Moonrise;
Worst Thing;
Philo Bridge;
Japanese School;
Various Scams;
Debate Watching;
Ed Notes;
Jimmy 96;
Lit Poetry;
Vintage Ukiah;
Fifty Grand;
Rodenticide Ban;
Patel Plan;
Yesterday's Catch;
Pinche Jose;
Moderator Fatigue;
Drake Forever;
Stand By;
All Lost;
Genre Deterioration;
Amazing Feat;
Clown vs Clown;
Unwatchable Charade;
Elections Nowadays;
Ordinary Joe;
Decadent Language;
Prop 22;
Raisin Sun

Glass Fire Updates

[PD] North Bay Air Quality Expected To Reach Unhealthy Levels As Winds Shift Shifting winds have begun blowing smoke from the Glass fire back over the North Bay, which could worsen already dismal local air…

Letters (September 30, 2020)

Well Folks, here we are at the proverbial “Catch 22.” At last count, 15 businesses in Mendocino have closed due to Covid and there are another 10 on the brink of collapse

A Tale of Two Meetings

As reported bright and early Wednesday morning by Mark Scaramella, on Tuesday, September 22 (and in this week’s Supervisors report), the Mendocino County Board of Supervisors approved the expenditure of approximately $10.6 million of Project…

The Laytonville-Pot Home Invasion

This past weekend there was a home invasion in the northern Laytonville area that stretched over several days starting on last Thursday, Sept. 17. The MCSO press release that’s been published does a good job…

Supes Approve the Impossible

Item 6b on last Tuesday’s Supervisors Agenda was one of the most convoluted items we’ve ever seen on any Mendo Board meeting agenda: “Discussion and Possible Action Including Direction to Staff on Cannabis Cultivation Permitting…

Paul ‘Scoop’ McCarthy, RIP

In an item just before noon last Friday on Mendocino Sports Plus, the ubiquitous Elk-based news outlet with a small army of devoted followers on its ever-streaming Facebook platform, founder and Editor Paul McCarthy wrote…

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