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Mendocino County Today: November 29, 2012
WILL THE SHERIFF ROLL? No sooner had I blithely informed a caller that I’d been assured by a well-placed person that the names of the people who’d signed up for the County’s zip-ties would not be...
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YOO-HOO, KATHRYN: YOUR STUFF’S GONE Dear Sir, In your response last week you asked where Kathryn Cummings was while all these alleged victims robbed her home and property. Well, Kathryn is in Lake...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: November 30, 2012
HANDS UP! You’re under arrest for having a good time. “On 11/28/2012 at approximately 2:15am, deputies from the Mendocino County Sheriff’s Office were dispatched to a call for service in the Boonville...
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Mendocino County Today: December 1, 2012
IT’S OFFICIAL! Ukiah is far out and nearby, the $21,000 slogan created by a consultant in Walnut Creek. The “Visit Ukiah Task Force” has given the controversial slogan the official Ukiah stamp of...
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Mendocino County Today: December 2, 2012
SEAN WHITE, general manager of the Russian River Flood Control and Water Conservation Improvement District said Friday, “There is a high probability that Hopland will experience significant flooding...
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Mendocino County Today: December 3, 2012
DOPERS REGROUP — Emerald Growers Association Press Release: In an attempt to gain access to the personal and financial information of state law-compliant medical cannabis farmers in Mendocino County,...
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Mendocino County Today: December 4, 2012
TONIGHT’S festival of lights at the Botanical Gardens has been canceled because of rain. It will be re-scheduled. THE PUBLIC REVIEW DRAFT of the Mendocino Redwood Company Habitat Conservation Plan...
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Mendocino County Today: December 5, 2012
THE MENDO SUPES issued the following statement Tuesday: “Federal authorities have subpoenaed information related to Mendocino County Code Chapter 9.31 but have not disclosed their interest in the...
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JOHN WILLIAMS of Greenwood Road has died at age 68. He was well-known in this area, and had lived here for more than thirty years. The former husband of Nadya Williams, John was born in England. He...
View ArticleShipping Ludwig
We had a two-day delay in our flight from Atlanta to Johannesberg. Several months prior to leaving SFO, I was instructed by a person at Delta to call a month before leaving to book the flight for the...
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AT FIRST LOOK, the great storm didn’t live up to its pre-rains hype. But by Monday, especially inland, considerable damage and even controversy about the reason for that damage, was being assessed....
View ArticleLooking Back, Part 9
My mother, like her four older sisters in Tennessee (one of whom, the 2nd grade teacher in Carthage, claimed as one of her most well-known students former vice-president Al Gore, Jr.), was, in the...
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“Whoever said money can’t buy happiness simply didn’t know where to go shopping.” — Bo Derek So…immediately following and ever since the re-election of President Obama, we have been told day and night...
View ArticleRiver Views
This time of year always puts me in mind of World War II. A little known story of that “good war” concerns Wake Island. The entry of the United States into the war seemed a certainty to our government...
View ArticleThe Goldeneye Diaries
Here I write outside of Boonville in a beautiful leather bound journal gifted by A.L. of Adelaide, Australia. The voluptuous Italian singer, who made my recent four months down under more delectable...
View ArticleManeuver Paradox
When you see me talking to myself, it doesn’t mean I am crazy, it means you are blind and have no idea about the multitude of ghosts following me either on foot or weightless bicycles made of metal...
View ArticleSusan Keegan & The Central Park Five
The Central Park Five, the newly released Ken Burns documentary about five black and Hispanic teenagers railroaded through the New York City criminal justice system for a rape they did not commit, does...
View ArticleDeer Hunting In Sherwood Valley
Many years ago I was hunting in the Sherwood Valley area with a friend from Fort Bragg. We started early in the morning and had trouble right away. We had a big terrier named Snooper and a big hound...
View ArticleBird’s Eye View
Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably then I shall begin. December birthdays include distinguished Valley folks such as — Bill Holcomb, Wilma Brink, Pete Benville, and Rick Rajeski —...
View ArticleThat’s All For Now
Dear Readers: To cut to the quick — whilst I have thoroughly enjoy conducting these interviews over the past four years, it is a commitment and task that I feel I can no longer do. It has become...
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