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Mendocino County Today: April 11, 2013
TAKE THIS, PHIL Subject: FW: Caltrans: “Dan Hamburg says ‘move forward’ on Willits bypass” From: “Dan Hamburg” <vote@pacific.net> Date: Wed, April 10, 2013 2:14 pm To: Phil_Frisbie@dot.ca.gov Cc:...
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Mendocino Media
My uncle, the late 5th District Supervisor Joe Scaramella, was an avid reader all his life. He described the county’s media during his tour in office in the 1950s and 60s as “mostly duplicative and...
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Mendocino County Today: April 12, 2013
RAUL ENRIQUE LULE, 43, the married father of two children, died Wednesday at the Redwood Empire Sawmill in Cloverdale. Reading between the lines of the scant press release announcing the accident, Lule...
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Mendocino County Today: April 13, 2013
ASSISTANT DA PAUL SEQUIERA issued this terse statement Thursday on the unprosecuted murder of Susan Keegan. “It’s still under investigation.” Peter & Susan Keegan REALLY? We’re not talking about...
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Mendocino County Today: April 14, 2013
NEED FOR SPEED has finished filming in Mendocino County. Today (Saturday) a large crew was on the Ukiah-Boonville Road from about 9am until late afternoon. The story line seems pretty simple, as does...
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What I did not buy at the Estate Sale
I heard about it from a friend who, heard it from a friend who… no that’s a song. This is a story about what happened earlier today. My friend told me she was hitting up an estate sale. We were out...
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Mendocino County Today: April 15, 2013
Brown MENDOCINO COUNTY’S Air Pollution Control Officer, Chris Brown, has resigned. Contrary to what the County Counsel’s office is putting out as the reason for Brown’s resignation, which is no reason...
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Mendocino County Today: April 16, 2013
A KIND OF STONER’S WOODSTOCK is on for this coming weekend as thousands of people are expected to join marijuana celebrations in Colorado and Washington, two states where the love drug has recently...
View ArticleEOA DOA?
The Board of Supervisors expressed plenty of skepticism during their March 12 discussion of the Exclusive Operating Area (EOA) proposal for County ambulance service. As “outreach” sessions commence...
View ArticleMotion To Dismiss
The jury and all charges were dismissed last week in the vehicular manslaughter case brought by The People against Ms. Helen A. Leslie. Ms. Leslie is the very picture of a retired schoolteacher, a...
View ArticleMeanwhile, In Point Arena…
Nobody much talked about the Press Democrat headlines last week regarding about Congressperson Lynn Woolsey’s chairing a panel about “extraterrestrials” on earth, although a few right-wingers did...
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Mendocino County Today: April 17, 2013
WITHIN AN HOUR of the Boston bombs, the conspiracy creeps were on the internet where one of the creepiest of all, Alex Jones, predictably claimed that our government had done it. Jones called the...
View ArticleTenuous Grip
“But I don’t want to go among mad people,” Alice remarked. “Oh, you can’t help that,” said the Cat. “We’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad.” “How do you know I’m mad?” said Alice. “You must be,” said...
View ArticleValley People
SUNDAY’S CONTROLLED BURN behind Jack’s Valley Store went off without going out of control, which CalFire’s burns have a tendency to do. This burn was practice for our volunteers under the careful...
View ArticleNorth Coast Railroad Authority Tosses EIR
Earlier this afternoon, the North Coast Railroad voted 8-1 to rescind its earlier certification of an environmental impact report governing operations on the southern end of its line. (Want background?...
View ArticleProhibition ’37
Act one, scene one of a three-act tragicomedy featuring the Treasury Department, US industries reliant on hemp, and the American Medical Association. A radio is playing “Nice work if you can get it” as...
View ArticleOn The Set Of Need For Speed
I recently had the unique experience of working with the crazy circus that came through town to film Need for Speed. The movie is described as “a fast-paced, high-octane film rooted in the tradition of...
View ArticleRiver Views
More than 50 denizens of the area around the Albion River crowded into the Albion School during the evening of April 11th to discuss the 586-acre timber harvest plan Mendocino Redwood Company has...
View ArticleLetters To The Editor
FOOLISH & COSTLY To the Editor: At this point, I feel there isn’t any way to dissuade our esteemed elected council from their plan to squeeze State Street down from two lanes to one through the...
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Mendocino County Today: April 18, 2013
THE MARIJUANA LAWS, proposed and actual, change so often it’s hard to keep up. But a useful bill introduced last by Congressman Rohrabacher, R-Orange County, is aimed at resolving the conflict between...
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