The Golden State Of Dreams
The end fast approaches, but oh what a ride! Any country that produces Walt Whitman, Nat King Cole and Groucho Marx must be doing something right. But for every I.F. Stone there is a United Fruit...
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Mendocino County Today: May 16, 2013
TYLER G. FIELDS, 19, of Ukiah drowned Tuesday in Lake Mendocino His body was recovered by Sheriff’s Department divers early Tuesday evening. Fields was reported missing a little after 3 Tuesday...
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MEMO OF THE WEEK: THE FAMILY BUSINESS From: jtomlin@mcn.org Date: May 8, 2013, 11:59:17 AM PDT To: marthafbradford@gmail.com, jcollins@mcn.org Cc: rpinoli@mcn.org, anderson2775@gmail.com Marti &...
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Mendocino County Today: May 17, 2013
Tubbs FOLLOWING THREE HOURS of grisly testimony Wednesday, Wilson L. “Josh” Tubbs III, 38, of Fort Bragg, was bound over for trial on charges of “child abuse resulting in death.” A-month-old infant,...
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Mendocino County Today: May 18, 2013
LAST TUESDAY, Supervisor Dan Hamburg reminded his colleagues about the upcoming meeting at the Apple Farm in Philo regarding the pending replacement of the Philo-Greenwood Road bridge over the Navarro...
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Mendocino County Today: May 19, 2013
A 40-FOOT cave in at the east end of the Skunk Train’s Tunnel One will prevent the popular tourist line from chugging on through to Willits until the tracks can be cleared and the tunnel shored up, an...
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Mendocino County Today: May 20, 2013
RECOMMENDED VIEWING: THE ICEMAN co-starring Anderson Valley’s very own, Winona Ryder, raised deep in the hills of west Philo. Children under the age of 50, especially Pollyanna’s kids, won’t care much...
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Mendocino County Today: May 21, 2013
BREAKING NEWS Allman SHERIFF ALLMAN confirmed late Monday afternoon that an investigation by the Sheriff’s office is underway to determine if Carrie Hamburg, the late wife of 5th District supervisor...
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Mendocino County Today: May 22, 2013
THE MENDOCINO Major Crimes Task Force, led by the legendary Peter Hoyle, was busy in Point Arena this week. Seems that someone with the initials P.R., living on Schooner Gulch Road South of Point...
View ArticleJanis & Jimi
Last October, toward the end of the month, I made one of several trips to Ukiah from Clearlake, where I was living at the time. Several of the local Ukiah businesses had Halloween window displays, but...
View ArticleProhibition ’37: For The Birds
Continued from last week’s AVA: the 1937 Congressional hearing on marijuana prohibition. NARRATOR: The next witness, also from the hemp industry, was introduced prior to adjournment on April 29th and...
View ArticleDead Man Walking
Four thieves went to prison last week. The first thief, Fernando Joaquin, got two years and eight months; the second thief, Dustin Cook, got four years; the next thief, Alfred Dominiak, got eight years...
View ArticleMendo Broadband Denied
Supervisor Hamburg last Tuesday told his Board colleagues about a Friday, May 17 meeting in Fort Bragg to discuss internet broadband service in the county. “The focus will be broadband planning in the...
View ArticleThree Nons & Water Wars
Sheriff Allman appeared before the Board of Supervisors last Tuesday to explain why it is expected to cost $150,000 to paint the inside of the jail. First up was General Services Director Kristin...
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The Battle For Carrie Hamburg’s Remains
Allman & Hamburg Sheriff Allman confirmed late Monday afternoon that an investigation by the Sheriff’s office is underway to determine if Carrie Hamburg, the late wife of 5th District supervisor...
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Dispatch From 70 Feet Up A Valley Oak
The author, 70 feet up a valley oak. On May 14th, I ascended roughly 70 feet into a 100-foot tall valley oak that stands in the path of the California Department of Transportation’s proposed six-mile...
View ArticleBullying At Mendo K-8
I can’t bear to hold this in any longer! The Mendocino K-8 school is not just heartless but also vindictive! My child was bullied so badly for 3 years (3rd through 5th grade) that we took her from the...
View ArticleValley People
WE’VE BEEN HOUNDING Deputy Squires to submit to a debrief in the form of an interview, but the Deputy says No. We had a title all ready to go: “A Great Cop Hangs Up His Cuffs.” But the Deputy said No,...
View ArticleOff The Record
THE MENDOCINO Major Crimes Task Force, led by the legendary Peter Hoyle, was busy in Point Arena this week. Seems that someone with the initials P.R., living on Schooner Gulch Road South of Point...
View ArticleThe War On Global Warming
“We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the...
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