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View ArticleBird’s Eye View (Jan 7, 2015)
Welcome to 2015 and may it be happy and healthy for all of you. Made any New Year’s Resolutions? These are difficult to maintain of course and perhaps we should not put too much pressure on ourselves....
View ArticleLetters (Jan 7, 2015)
Now that the voting has been finalized, it's time to congratulate the three candidates that won seats during the recent election for Ukiah City Council. Jim Brown, Kevin Doble, and Maureen "Mo"...
View ArticleSupes Notes
Mendo’s Health & Human Services Agency boss, Stacey Cryer, generally does little more in Board meetings than introduce members of her staff who proceed to make dubious statements about things over...
View ArticleEmerald Triangle Argonauts & Ecotopia Avatars
A curious cave north of Laytonville, off Spy Rock Road, must have held an “amazing acoustic effect” as the Special Agents of our trusty local Drug Task Force began tapping at and around a hidden door...
View Article$9,460.45
Just before Christmas, on December 22, 2014, Mendocino County Superior Court Judge John Behnke announced the amount that I am mandated to pay the California Department of Transportation for occupying a...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Wednesday, Jan 7, 2015
Navarro's Mouth; Vineyard Fan Lawsuit; Catch of the Day; Police Reports; Radio Finances; Baseball Trophy Tour; Bad Choices; Planning Department; Robert Johnson; Sheriff Jim Clark; Mistah Kurtz;...
View ArticleRevisiting the Belle Rodriguez Murder Case
The small town of Covelo in central Mendocino County is nestled in the Round Valley, to the west of the Mendocino National Forest and east of Highway 101, miles inland from the coast. It is located...
View ArticleInside Moves, Take 2
As many readers may know, last week I wrote about former Fort Bragg Police Chief Scott Mayberry having falsely accused a fellow Fort Bragg PD officer of leaking an official incident report. Near the...
View ArticleOff the Record (Jan 7, 2015)
THE NEW UKIAH CITY COUNCIL, according to the Ukiah Daily Journal, is going for $15,000 worth of consulting to “facilitate goal setting.” The last time the Council went looking for outside advice, they...
View ArticleNew Year’s Intentions
The gentle winter sun is smiling on dozens of migrant ducks sharing the heart of the peaceful cove with grebes and cormorants, while a steady stream of voluble tourists rushes by me. Two big pelicans...
View ArticleMendocino Talking: Mark Scaramella
Putting together the AVA every week is comparable to painting bridges. As soon as you’re done with one week, you’re starting on the next one. Most of it is collecting electronic data — the main typing...
View ArticleValley People (Jan 7, 2015)
NASH MILL'S most exciting residents, the Plowrights, were arrested Friday night by the CHP when they were pulled over at Highway 128 and Peachland Road. Granma Plowright, 70, and her wayward son,...
View ArticleMeth Mike & the Micro-mites
(A Cautionary Tale) — In the summer of 2004 Tall Bobby and I were holding down the graveyard shift at Denny's in Fort Bragg, a perfect gig for someone of my nocturnal inclinations and propensity for...
View ArticleGetting Ripped Off via Craigslist
In retrospect, the transaction was kind of strange. But then again, aren’t they usually a bit odd when they originate from Craigslist? It certainly wasn’t strange enough to tip me off that $160 of the...
View ArticleCow Sharing
Winter hovers outside; the month of December in the Ohio Valley turned out mild and dark with drizzly overcast days and almost no sunshine. It's the time for reflection, I tell myself as I recline in...
View ArticleEpiphany
Elizabeth is an unattractive city in the armpit of northern New Jersey. Some important neighboring cities are Newark, with which it shares a seaport; Linden, with which it shares a refinery; Bayonne,...
View ArticleMendocino County, The Dark Side
May 2005: Donald Cavanaugh, 63, of Illinois, was reported missing. His vehicle was subsequently found in Westport. James Denoyer remains the only suspect in his uncle’s disappearance. Denoyer is...
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