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Posts published in January 2022

Mendocino County Today: Sunday, Jan. 9, 2022

Pleasant Day | Pet Inky | Free Lunch | Skunk Protest | Patriots Meet | Tabitha Advice | Tinyville | County Matters | Senior Center | Ed Notes | Police Reports | McKibben Zoom | CSO Opening | Ukiah Tune | Yesterday's Catch | Beatles | Hendy Woods | Chatty Katty | Inuit Goggles | Clinton Power | Cliff House | NYT Lies | Muddy Russian | Unhealthy Burden | Eagles Resting | Trash Cleanup | Wireless Perch | GOP Rescue | Caspar 65 | KPFZ Hiatus | Albion Clipper | Marco Radio | Elsie Peterson | Liberal Badass | Giant Sequoia

Free Weed!

The first recipient of my free weed came up this week with a case of organic evaporated milk I had requested from Whole Foods in…

Pear Picking

I’ll tell you how it happened… I was working fruit that summer, moving from orchard to orchard, picking crops as they ripened: first apricots, then…

Mendocino County Today: Saturday, Jan. 8, 2022

Clearing | 4 New Cases | Gschwend Theft | Skunk House | Redbeard Interview | Senior Benefit | Lair Demolition | Tent Music | Mo Busy | Covid Test | Health Orders | Bicycle Club | Wildlife Intern | Harper's 1878 | Library Tax | Gay Marriage | Ed Notes | Yesterday's Catch | Bogus Stunt | Snow Bus | Water Supply | Fascism Rising | Compete Bezos | Log Chute | Planning Cancelled | Body Found | Nuzzling Cheney | Chess Match | Brash Comedy | Noyo 1922 | Marco Radio | Trapper | Exhausting Lunacies | Logging Op | Everybody Hang | Homer Wolfe | No Pardons | Main Street

Cache Creek Water Wars in Lake County

In this day and age wars are fought about water use because too many users want to draw on too small a supply. In this…

Fact-Checking the Ricardos

Because Hollywood screenwriter Aaron Sorkin keeps weaving across the double-yellow line between history and fiction, the literal-minded viewer can get disoriented. In his script for…

Table for 150 Please

Yes, I asked for a table for 150, actually for lunch. I was part of a group doing the serving. Let me explain. I belong…

Mendocino County Today: Friday, Jan. 7, 2022

Showers | 142 New Cases | Another Death | Mendo Vaxxed | Health Order | Mendocino 1865 | Student Testing | Camp 7 | Shields Observations | Begats | Curry Interview | Cleone Mill | Gathering Isms | Future Reduced | Deputy Day | Ma Beelzebub | Legal Mess | Friar Blanderfield | Skunk Takings | Jerry Quiet | Disappearing LCW | Mae Lyons | Ukiah Housing | Time Passing | Wastewater Gig | Ghost Storefront | Second Saturday | Yesterday's Catch | Esther Mocktails | Civil Warriors | Marin Rioter | Velvet Ropes | Sites Reservoir | Fiddle Busking | Near Dresden | 1,000 Times

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