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From provisions for the indigent, to contracts for half a million dollars, the business of the county is in the consent calendar this week. The Mendo Voice provides links to the documents and a quick run-down.
At 12:42 this afternoon, CHP dispatch received a call about a blue SUV that had gone over an embankment on Highway 1, mile marker 10163 on the Shoreline Highway in Leggett. The reporting party saw the vehicle upside down, about 70 feet over the embankment, and yelled down but received no response. A unit was assigned at 12:48 and arrived at 1:07. At 1:15, the assessment of the problem changed from a possible injury with an ambulance on its way to an an accident with property damage but no injuries. McCaffrey’s, Brown’s, and All-in-One towing companies were contacted.
It’s time again to find a site for a temporary winter shelter to house the homeless, but lengthy protocols, environmental reviews, and zoning restrictions have combined to create a formidable set of hurdles.
CalTrans
Mendocino County will be experience a touch of traffic this week as CalTrans does construction on three major roads. There will be controlled one-way traffic on Routes 1, 20, and 101, due to construction and maintenance. Route 1: 7.2 miles south of the junction with Route 20, 7am-5pm Tuesday-Friday, due to construction. This is just north of the Town of Mendocino, where the 1 crosses over the Russian Gulch. Route 20: There will be one way controlled traffic on the 20 starting from 2.1 miles east of the junction with Route 1, right past Summers Ln., for several miles, through half a mile west of Dunlap, from 7:30am-2:30pm daily, Mon-Thurs, due to construction.
CHP Report
LAYTONVILLE — A small gray sedan hit a bear at 8:47 this morning on Highway 162, the Covelo Rd, near the Laytonville Dos Rios Rd. The bear initially appeared to be injured and causing a traffic hazard, but at 9:24, the animal was reported to be dead and no longer a traffic hazard. A tow truck was called at 9:28. The subject suffered minor injuries but at 10:01 the CHP reported the subject was not being transported to the hospital.
