MENDOCINO Co., 11/17/20 — All  Mendocino County school reopening plans for in person learning are now on hold- with one exception: Potter Valley Community Unified School District’s kindergartners and first graders who started back to school school on Monday.

By chance, Monday was the last day allowed to restart in-person classes before Mendocino County returned to the more restrictive “purple tier” for COVID-19. Just hours after Potter Valley started its youngest children back to school on Monday, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced that Mendocino County would be moved back to the purple tier starting today, Tuesday, nixing further plans for any other county schools to begin in-person instruction for at least two weeks and likely more.

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Frank Hartzell is a freelancer reporter and an occasional correspondent for The Mendocino Voice. He has published more than 10,000 news articles since his first job in Houston in 1986. He is the recipient...