Letters To The Editor
THE BOARD OF INCOMPETENCE To: The State Board of Equalization, Sacramento On April 11, 2013 we sent in sales tax for the first quarter of $3,326. Sometime in May of 2013 we received a letter stating:...
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THIS SEASON’S FIRST home invasion occurred last Tuesday morning, November 5th, between 3 and 4am when four masked Mexican males, estimated ages 20-40, armed with a pistol and a rifle, took jewelry and...
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Mendocino County Today: November 14, 2013
NOTHING BUT CLEAR, DRY WEATHER in the foreseeable forecast for northern California. According to the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Agency, the West Coast stands to be in drought conditions for...
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IT’S THE THIRD anniversary of Susan Keegan’s murder. Her husband, Dr. Peter Keegan, says his wife of 30 years died, drunk and stoned, in a bathroom fall. That’s possible, one has to suppose, but Mrs....
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Mendocino County Today: November 15, 2013
RICHARD PETERSEN Richard James Petersen, 71, of Ukiah, California died on September 23, 2013, of pancreatic cancer. A memorial will be held on Saturday, November 23, at the Mendo-Lake Clubhouse, in...
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Mendocino County Today: November 16, 2013
BOONVILLE! MENDOCINO COUNTY’S MOST HAPPENING COMMUNITY! Saturday – Boonville Winter Market – in front of Boonville General Store – 11:00-1:00 – rain or shine • Yorkville Olive Ranch – olive oil •...
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Mendocino County Today: November 17, 2013
DAISY COCKBURN & JEFFREY ST. CLAIR CELEBRATE ALEXANDER COCKBURN AND A COLOSSAL WRECK at City Lights Books Come celebrate Alexander Cockburn and A Colossal Wreck at City Lights Books, Sunday 11/17...
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Mendocino County Today: November 18, 2013
ANDERSON VALLEY PANTHERS WIN LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIP! by Coach Steve Sparks Back row, left to right: Isidro Tovar, Abraham Sanchez, Gualberto Gastelim, Moises Segura, Asst Coach Nikola Milojevich, Izac...
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Mendocino County Today: November 19, 2013
LONGTIME Mendocino County Deputy Public Defender Tom Croak was killed in a single-vehicle accident on Highway 20 Sunday afternoon. Croak, who wasn’t wearing his seatbelt, apparently over-corrected on a...
View ArticleNameless, Faceless Helplers
Last week some local newspapers published what was essentially a press release from Mendocino County’s Health and Human Services Agency (HHSA). The article opens with the line, “Responding to ‘local...
View Article50 Years
I was on my way to eighth grade math class, in the makeshift middle school in Dixon, in Solano County (four years after my family moved away from Boonville). Because we didn’t actually have a school...
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Crazy Vatos Dos
Ivan Sanchez Fort Bragg gangster Ivan Sanchez survived an effort to indict him on the attempted murder of his girlfriend last week. The indictment failed — not due to any impression of innocence...
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Supes To Factory Neighbors: Shut Up
In a purely symbolic move on Tuesday, November 5, the Mendocino County Board of Supervisors discussed a “Right To Industry” ordinance that would tell anybody living near industrial activity in the...
View ArticleAht & Cultcha
“A triptych (three related paintings) by the artist Francis Bacon sold for $142,405,000 on Tuesday, breaking the record as the most expensive piece of art ever auctioned, according to the auction...
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Mendocino County Today: November 20, 2013
THE CALIFORNIA COASTAL COMMISSION, meeting in Newport Beach last week, denied the appeal of the Ten Mile Dunes project sponsored by State Parks. The project, to remove a 2.5 mile remnant section of the...
View ArticlePanthers Win League Championship
The postseason for the High School Boys’ soccer team began in earnest last Wednesday (November 13) with a home match in the quarter-finals against Geyserville, a team the Panthers had beaten twice in...
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49ers & Incognito
As most of you probably know, the 49ers lost to the Carolina Panthers on November 10th in Candlestick Park on a sunny San Francisco day. Carolina does have a superb defense but their offense, not so...
View ArticleBird’s Eye View
Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably then I shall begin. Fifty years ago, on November 22nd, 1963, President Kennedy was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald, Cuban dissidents, the KGB,...
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Gowan’s Oak Tree & Orchards
Gowan’s through the years. Grace Espinoza was one of the first people I met in Anderson Valley. We sang together in the community chorus, but I didn’t have a chance to talk with her until we sat next...
View ArticleWhere Were You When…?
In the fall of 2013, a common question emerges inescapably from the news: “Where were you when Kennedy was killed?” Me? I was delivering cans of paint to a store for UPS, a seasonal job I was happy to...
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