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Mach 8, 2021 About half the Caucasian population in Mendocino County has been vaccinated, compared to 16% of the Hispanic population. Still, with case rates dropping, Public Health Officer Dr. Andy Coren says the county could enter the red tier by the middle of this month.
The county Planning Commission unanimously approved a subdivision of parcels on Feliz Creek in Hopland for more winemaking, with the possibility of publicly available walking trails on a 40-acre parcel in the floodplain.
And the county has likely missed its opportunity to purchase Old Howard Hospital, with another potential buyer taking steps to secure the property.
The topic of possibly using Measure B money to buy Old Howard Hospital for a psychiatric health facility surfaced at the January meeting of the Measure B citizens oversight commission, which decided to leave the matter to ad hoc committees of the Board of Supervisors and the Willits City Council. In 2018, when the site was first being considered
Mary E. Baker
If you re a Brockton resident you might be familiar with the Mary E. Baker school. The Baker school is named after Mary E. Baker, the first African-American to work at Brockton City Hall. She was an advocate for affordable housing and racial integration in education. She helped establish two affordable housing complexes in Brockton and assisted with the integration of Brockton High School. Baker herself graduated from Brockton High school in 1941, going on to get her undergraduate degree from UMass Boston and her master s in education from Cambridge College. In 2008 the city of Brockton honored her by naming a freshly built school after her, the first African American woman to be so honored.