Mendocino County Today: December 27, 2012
THE ANNUAL RANCHERIA RESCUE, 2012. Usually it happens this way: A kayaker, or a group of them, underestimates the time it will take to schwoosh the rain-swollen Rancheria from Mountain View Road to...
View ArticleWhen I Was Justice Of The Peace
Before the California Judicial Council was voted in by the state legislature, the local judge was a justice of the peace and was known to the people as a JP. He would be a local man elected to office...
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THE WILDEST WEATHER in some time has been pounding the Northcoast, with Anderson Valley absorbing a dozen direct lightning strikes between Boonville and Philo with accompanying blasts of thunder...
View ArticleOff The Record
THE NEW COUNTY COURTHOUSE is proceeding whether the rest of us want it or not, and few people apart from our cossetted cadre of judges, do want it. A new County Courthouse is not needed. The present...
View ArticleGifts For Mendo
Back on December 10th, the Mendocino Supervisors invited Mendocino Redwoods executives to discuss their Habitat Conservation Plan. The plan covers 80 years and would bind the government but not the...
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End Of The Year Awards
Photos, from upper left: Dan Gjerde, Thundercloud Gambini, Luke Breit, Jacqueline ‘ Pixie’ Audet. Biggest Boondoggle, Ongoing — The Willits Bypass has been allocated hundreds of millions of public...
View ArticleChristmas’s Greatest Anti-Carol
An armchair psychologist might say it could only be a December baby born in the Great Depression who could have devised a song so devastatingly critical of the contradictions between consumerist...
View ArticleBird’s Eye View
Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably then I shall begin. So how was your Christmas? Did the new sweater fit? Did it still fit after dinner? Did you keep the receipt for your nephew’s...
View ArticleRiver Views
It’s Boxing Day, the day for servants and the working class to receive presents from their employers. That centuries-old tradition sounds a lot like the 1% vs. 99% divide we face in the present. Boxing...
View ArticleWhy Bother?
“Isn’t it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope; perhaps one could never find sense in life without...
View ArticleSports Notes
The 49er Faithful could see the two big games up ahead — the New England Patriots and the Seattle Seahawks. The Niners knocked off the Patriots 41-34 two weeks ago, exploding in the first two and a...
View ArticleLetters To The Editor
PUNISHING D-TANK Editor, Punish one, Punish all. I am one of the many inmates in Mendocino County Jail in Ukiah who have prison terms in our past and who are housed in administrative segregation under...
View ArticleSchool Bond Update
As 2012 draws to a close it is a good time to give an update on the school construction projects and to answer a few Phase One of our projects started last summer is 99% completed. We are now running...
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Mendocino County Today: December 28, 2012
A CLOSE OBSERVER of municipal lawsuits against the state’s Department of Finance summarizes them this way: “We started this project and if you don’t let us finish, the City will suffer harm/hardship.”...
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Mendocino County Today: December 29, 2012
GARETT MATSON OF FORT BRAGG has been arrested again, this time for grand theft, receiving stolen property and embezzlement. Matson’s bail is set at a total of $75,000. He has been in trouble for years,...
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Mendocino County Today: December 30, 2012
THE LOST KAYAKER, the update: Rod Giuliani, the Greenwood Road volunteer firefighter, was dispatched to the Philo-Greenwood Bridge to see if the lost kayaker had floated downstream from where his...
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Mendocino County Today: December 31, 2012
Mendo Film office to Coast Hippies: ‘We Don’t Negotiate With Terrorists’ by Mark Scaramella Back in 1997, Warner Bros applied for a permit to make a movie on the Mendocino Headlands, a state park....
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Mendocino County Today: January 1, 2013
Sheriff Allman with Bassler Security Photo THE AVA’s Steve Sparks and Mendocino County Sheriff Tom Allman have been working together for the last year on a book providing a detailed account of the...
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Mendocino County Today: January 2, 2012
THE FAUX MEDITERRANEAN VILLA that seems to have suddenly materialized near the foot of Nash Mill Road has locals wondering who the lavish phantasmagoria belongs to. People by the name of Rennie, we’re...
View ArticleValley People
GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN: Alex Cockburn Efren Mendoza Vern Piver Aletta Hollister Bruce Longstreet Walter ‘Shine’ Tuttle Arline Day Bobbie Hiatt Jim Isaac Cleo Hixon Tom Elke George Bennett Harold...
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