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MCT: Saturday, June 6, 2020

COOL WEATHER this weekend with a slight chance of sprinkles on Saturday night. On Sunday, temps will remain cool with daytime highs in the 60s and 70s…

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A Heck of a Month

With the nation's major cities rocked by nearly a week of fiery protest over racism and police violence, and Sonoma County embroiled in a full-on confrontation between…

by Chris Calder, June 3, 2020No Comment

Measure B: Sloth & Confusion

THE MEASURE B COMMITTEE “MET” Wednesday afternoon. It was the most pathetic excuse for a meeting I’ve ever seen in Mendo, bar-none — and the problems had…

by Mark Scaramella, June 3, 20204 Comments

Off the Record (June 3, 2020)

JIM WAGONER will be a familiar name to Coast radio listeners. He writes: "I'm an old radio news guy who lived in Fort Bragg in the 1980s…

by AVA News Service, June 3, 2020No Comment

Organic Kale in the Time of Plague

Ours is the first generation in history unyoked from the burdens that defined life for those who came before us. Our generation, ushered into a standing civilization in which…

by Tommy Wayne Kramer, June 3, 2020No Comment

Journal of the Plague Year (#11)

Berkeley, CA June 1, 2020 — Coast to coast, they’re drifting back to campuses, starting this week. From modest institutions like the San Mateo Union School District to medium…

by Larry Bensky, June 3, 2020No Comment

The Big River Mystery

Intrigued by the unknown? Does a wisp of mist rolling across the moon's shadow or the hint of heat rising up from a bog on an otherwise chilled winter's…

by Malcolm Macdonald, June 3, 2020No Comment

Plague Music

Were Georg Frideric Handel to be beamed back to earth from the celestial realm he has inhabited since his death two-and-a-half centuries ago, he would soon have a Netflix…

by David Yearsley, June 3, 2020No Comment

The Pro-Pot Politician

Being a lawyer was a practical way to work for peace and social justice in 1967 when Terence Hallinan began his career, because many people seeking to advance those…

by Fred Gardner, June 3, 20202 Comments

If You Really Loved Me, You’d Die For Me

Love, it has been said, is a many-splendored thing. By Andy Williams and Han Suyin, anyway, who, respectively, sang the song and wrote the book that became the 1955…

by Flynn Washburne, June 3, 2020No Comment

I’m disturbed by those who have decided that wearing masks somehow impinges on their rights. This virus isn’t personal. A global pandemic is a virus that goes after anyone in any country, regardless of their political positions and cultural beliefs.…

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False Positive

Local Test Ruled False Positive by State Health Department — Miller Report for the Week of June…

Student Gathering

[Jun 2] Local students have called for a Black Lives Matter gathering today at 4:30 at Town…

AV Testing

Anderson Valley Health Clinic is doing another round of surveillance testing for COVID19 next Tuesday, June 2,…

Revised SIP Order

Post Date: 05/28/2020 6:00 PM This week Governor Gavin Newsom announced that counties approved for accelerated reopening…

Lockdown Stress

I don’t believe anyone would be surprised to know that there has been an increase in police…

High Risk Activities

Need for More COVID Testing on the Coast Called For — Miller Report for the Week of May…

Stage 2 Reopening

The ability of the County to open up safely depends upon the responsible conduct of all of…

Six New Cases

Post Date: 05/22/2020 3:13 PM Today Mendocino County went from 15 to 21 cases, increasing our numbers…

Cuba in the Global Era (Feb. 17, 1999)

As the Aerocaribe DC-9 began to descend into Havana, 45 minutes after it took off from Cancun, Mexico I read that Fidel Castro was…

by Saul Landau, June 6, 2020No Comment

Y2K or Not? (Feb. 17, 1999)

I don’t have the facts on this issue. A friend was just saying that I never let the facts get in the way of anything I write.…

by Jeff Costello, June 5, 2020No Comment

Out of Control in Covelo

South Central LA: Watts Summer 1965

Valley People (June 3, 2020)

Carving the Coast

Local Boy Makes Good

Caspar Historical Curiosities