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Mendocino County Today: March 10, 2013
Anchor Bay FROM DAVID HELVARG’S new book, “The Golden Shore,” an AVA recommended read: “North of Gualala is Anchor Bay and its beach where rumrunners used to drop their loads during Prohibition. Point...
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Mendocino County Today: March 11, 2013
IT COULD HAPPEN HERE. According to a story in the on-line newspaper Lake Tahoe News, 14 members of that County’s Grand Jury resigned en masse last month and then the presiding judge disbanded the Grand...
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Mendocino County Today: March 12, 2013
SENATOR EVANS SAYS NO BYPASS TO: Michael Dougherty, Director, California Department of Transportation 1120 N Street, Sacramento, CA 94273-0001 Dear Director Dougherty: Caltrans is about to begin the...
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Mendocino County Today: March 13, 2013
AS PREVIOUSLY REPORTED, Mendocino County has engaged Fitch Associates (the go-to consultant for emergency medical issues) to explore the feasibility of establishing an Exclusive Operating Area (EOA)...
View ArticleRiver Views
Last week’s column recounted how Fort Bragg police officer Craig Guydan shot a dog on December 21st, the only officer-involved shooting in the coastal town last year. Guydan also drew his gun on a...
View ArticleDr. Kravis’s Leaking Tank
Wikipedia: “Grease traps (also known as grease interceptors, grease recovery devices and grease converters) are plumbing devices designed to intercept most greases and solids before they enter a...
View ArticleValley People
ALL THAT GOOD STUFF, in a Herculean weekend move, is now ensconced down the street in the spiffy new street-front structure erected by Aaron Weintraub, complete with an old-timey sign that says...
View ArticleOff The Record
5TH DISTRICT SUPERVISOR Dan Hamburg’s wife, Carrie, has died. Mrs. Hamburg had been ill with cancer for some time. An unfailingly kind and friendly person active in a range of liberal causes, she was...
View ArticleIn The Home Of Aged Musicians
According to long-accepted, though unverifiable anecdote, the idea for the first charitable fund for musicians was born when three London players had just exited a popular coffee house in the Haymarket...
View ArticleSports Talk
The Summer Olympics of 2012 in London were not nearly as good or as exciting as the Beijing Olympics in China in 2008. But the single most thrilling moment in either Olympics was in the closing...
View ArticleBypass In The Wind
Members of California State Senator Noreen Evans’ staff, including her resident guru on environmental policy issues, Jeff Tyrell, visited The Warbler’s tree sit on Feb. 20th to get a feel for the...
View ArticleYour 2013 Anderson Valley Variety Show
Forty-eight hours or so before the opening act of this year’s Anderson Valley Variety Show I got a call from Captain Rainbow asking me to handle the review duties for this year’s extravaganza. I...
View ArticleMission 4 & More!
“The BV Space Program launched a weather balloon carrying the Space Panther One (a styrofoam cooler approximately 1.5 feet square covered in Gorilla tape and filled with recording devices) at 7:55am on...
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Letters To The Editor
UNSAFE, DESTRUCTIVE, WASTEFUL Editor, Phase 1 Willits Bypass is Unsafe, Destructive and Wasteful The Willits Bypass route, in my opinion, that would best support our local economy — and be the most...
View ArticleUnion Busting With Bankruptcy
On Thursday, March 7, Coast Hospital CEO Wayne Allen issued the following press release. “Mendocino Coast Hospital Files Bankruptcy Motion To Reject Current Union Contract; To Seek Negotiations On A...
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Mendocino County Today: March 14, 2013
PRO-BYPASS RALLY IN WILLITS By Jennifer Poole, Willits Weekly. www.facebook.com/WillitsWeekly Honks of support from passing traffic and chants of “Build It Now” filled the air this morning as Operating...
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Mendocino County Today: March 15, 2013
FRIDAY’S FIRE in Albion now looks like arson, as the following press release from the Sheriff’s Department makes clear. The second item describing another episode in the ancient saga of domestic mayhem...
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Watching The CFS
The Navarro. Courtesy, Clinton Steeds. I’m hooked on a new drama, called the CFS. It’s not a crime show, exactly, though there’s potential tragedy enough. It’s more of a reality show about Anderson...
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Mendocino County Today: March 16, 2013
BYPASS PROTEST: Who’s in Charge of Enforcement? By Jennifer Poole , Willits Weekly www.facebook.com/WillitsWeekly Who’s in charge of enforcement? CHP or Mendocino County Sheriff Tom Allman? Caltrans or...
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Mendocino County Today: March 17, 2013
DIRECT ACTION Planned for Caltrans Willits Bypass! (Save Our Little Lake Valley) — Occupy Encampment & Large Protest Planned in Opposition to Caltrans Planned Destructive Willits Bypass on Monday...
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