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Mendocino County Today: March 24, 2013
BYPASS PROTEST UPDATE by Jennifer Poole, Willits Weekly www.facebook.com/WillitsWeekly Initially, seven protesters who didn’t leave were arrested Thursday morning, and later that afternoon. Warbler is...
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Mendocino County Today: March 25, 2013
THE 12-YEAR OLD GIRL who went missing Thursday morning was safely found at a relative’s home in Santa Rosa on Sunday. Jenica Fredrick was reported missing to the Lake County Sheriff’s Office (LCSO) in...
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Mendocino County Today: March 26, 2013
MONDAY AT THE WILLITS BYPASS by Jennifer Poole, Willits Weekly www.facebook.com/WillitsWeekly Caltrans contractors continued work along the bypass route over the weekend in Willits, felling trees and...
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Mendocino County Today: March 27, 2013
BIG ORANGE ON THE RAMPAGE by Will Parrish Since Thursday, CalTrans’ destruction along the southern portion of the proposed Willits Bypass route has been unrelenting. The roughly 1.5-mile long and 200...
View ArticleThe Stornetta Public Lands Need Some Serious Protecting
Point Arena coastal locals, who at first welcomed the Bureau of Land Management’s takeover of the Stornetta Public Lands, are becoming increasingly alarmed as they witness the destruction caused by...
View ArticleA Good Victim Is Hard To Find
You take your victims where you find them. “Our victims are not always what we’d like,” Deputy DA Shannon Cox informed Judge Ann Moorman last week at the end of a particularly ugly preliminary hearing....
View ArticleValley People
THE MENDOCINO COUNTY FAIR, based in Boonville, is struggling. State subsidies have been slashed, and the Fair, much anticipated every Fall by thousands of people and central to life in Mendocino County...
View ArticleOff The Record
MS. MEREDITH SEIFERT of Willits appeared as Man Beater of the Week a few issues ago. Meredith called Tuesday. She was justly unhappy. Charges had been dropped but her gallant ex was cyber-casting our...
View ArticleBird’s Eye View
Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably I shall begin. In an extremely secretive service held at a location and on a date that cannot be shared, my family and brethren were honored by...
View ArticleRiver Views
I read Bruce Patterson’s recent letter to the AVA with interest, particularly his reference to the possibility of Mendocino Redwood Company turning one of their stagnant mill sites into a biomass...
View ArticleUncle David
My uncle David Walton died in China on March 8 at the ripe old age of eighty-seven, just a week ago as I write this, yet I have already received an email with photographs from the lovely memorial...
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Letters To The Editor
BAIT & SWITCH ARENA-STYLE Dear Editor, The grand jury did not find sufficient evidence to rescind what the Point Arena School Board did when, I believe, they incorrectly defeased the bond. They...
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Mendocino County Today: March 28, 2013
SUPES SUPPORT WILLITS BYPASS — Despite Outpouring Of Opposition by Willits Weekly’s Mike A’Dair Courtesy Willits Weekly / https://www.facebook.com/WillitsWeekly By a 3-2 margin, the Mendocino County...
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Big Orange On The Rampage
Since Thursday, CalTrans’ destruction along the southern portion of the proposed Willits Bypass route has been unrelenting. The roughly 1.5-mile long and 200 foot wide swath where Big Orange’s...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: March 29, 2013
BREAKING NEWS from the press conference at the Highway 101 tree sit site this morning: Tree-sitter Warbler is on hunger strike; 4th tree-sitter “Falcon” is across the highway; CHP officer says “That’s...
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Mendocino County Today: March 30, 2013
SCOTTY WILLIS often slugs it out with his lady love, Miss Kalisha Alvarez. The two love birds are what the cops call “frequent fliers,” meaning they are constantly in and out of the Mendocino County...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: March 31, 2013
TOWN HALL MEETING: The Aurora Natural Gas Company has purchased the mineral rights for a large number of parcels in Anderson Valley, and will soon begin fracking operations. Fracking is a much...
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Mendocino County Today: April 1, 2013
THE UKIAH UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT will be millions in debt by the 2015-16 school year, according to Sandra Harrington, Chief Business Official for UUSD. And whatever happened to CFO or Chief Financial...
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Mendocino County Today: April 2, 2013
Zanders, March 2013, In Rocky Horror Show, May 2011 AARON HARDING ZANDERS, 32, of Ukiah, was arrested Saturday on charges that he tried to kill his mother. Mom called police at 3:55 p.m. to report that...
View ArticleA Little Dab’ll Do Ya
When Pebbles Trippet showed me her letter to the AVA (March 27, 2013), I mentioned that Lester Grinspoon, the PC (Pro-Cannabis) Harvard Medical School Professor emeritus of Psychiatry, abjured the use...
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