Given the choice, I’d prefer the real Stalinism over the hippie version prevalent on the Northcoast, no better example of which was Monday night’s (April 2nd) Women’s Voices talk program on KZYX, itself, along with KMUD and KPFA on the subject of the Bari Bombing, heavy on neo-Stalinist conversation controls. Most of the locally generated [...]
Fort Bragg said goodbye to Vern Piver last Saturday. It was standing room only in the high school gym where one of the largest crowds in local memory gathered to honor the memory of this most vivid man, the town’s un-elected mayor. It was overcast and a light rain was falling when the service ended. [...]
Arline Day-Chambers passed away Saturday in Ashland, Oregon. She was 94. “Nana,” as she was always known among her family, was a fourth generation Californian born to Lovell and Helen Hunter Hamilton and raised on the family ranch near Point Arena. She attended many schools along the Northcoast as her parents worked the logging camps. [...]
The shy, sandy-haired man doesn’t match the groans and apocalyptic comment his name elicits in the halls of local government. “Total psycho,” says a program administrator. “Most likely to go postal,” another official says. But in the wan winter sun of a rainless December, the man himself, speaking in a soft monotone that he punctuates [...]
FOOTNOTE to the County’s elimination of the permit and fee portions of the 9.31 program under threats from US attorney’s office to County Counsel Jeanine Nadel. When members of the public asked what the rush was to scrap 9.31, County Counsel Nadel confirmed that the California Supreme Court had decided to review the “Pack” decision. [...]
PRESERVATION RANCH, the ghastly 1,769-acre forest-to-vineyard conversion proposed for Sonoma County in the Gualala-Annapolis area, has been put on hold, probably permanent hold. The California Public Employees’ Retirement System (Calpers) has withdrawn its backing for the ill-conceived project. The Napa-based vineyard company promoting the project is led by William Hill who has gotten money for [...]
JAMAL ANDREWS, 30, was found shot to death late Tuesday night in front of his Road B Redwood Valley home. Billy Norbury, 33, has been arrested for shooting Andrews, who was hit twice, fatally in the head, and once in the shoulder. Sheriff’s Department investigators estimate that the murder weapon, a rifle, was discharged several [...]
THREE WEEKS AGO, the US Attorney’s Office based in San Francisco sent one of their attorneys all the way to Ukiah to personally inform the Mendocino County Supervisors that Mendocino County officials better stop selling 99-plant licenses to medical marijuana growers or individually face arrest. The County had sold the permits through last pot season, [...]
COUNTY COUNSEL Nadel announced late Monday that the County employees bumblingly represented by SEIU have voted in favor of the proposed Tentative Agreement as have the Supervisors: • A 10% permanent general wage reduction effective the first full pay period after formal approval by the Board • A labor management committee which will meet the second [...]
TOM KURISKY, 63, of Westport has been identified as the man killed last week in the 9:30am accident near Murphy’s Pond on Highway 20 about ten miles east of Fort Bragg. Kurisky had drifted into the oncoming lane where he collided with a delivery van. The driver of the van, Bryon Ough, of Ukiah sustained [...]
