Update on the Death of Jeanne Huckins
by Tim Stelloh
The death of Jeanne Huckins, a Fort Bragg woman who was found dead in January, has been ruled a suicide.
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BREAKING: Anderson Valley Brewing Company Gets Eaten Alive (aka SOLD)
by Freda Moon
The inevitable has happened. Ken Allen, who founded Anderson Valley Brewing Company in 1987 and grew it into one of Northern California’s most beloved craft breweries, found a buyer for his little company that could.
The new owner, HMB Holdings LLC, is a new company founded by Trey White, a former VP at the Stamford, CT-based [...]
Why Bother?
Andrew Lewis Dishman and his many arrests.
March 11, 2010 | Posted in The Jaundiced Eye | Read More »
Facebookin’ for DA
by Tim Stelloh
The Godzilla of social networking sites is apparently a prerequisite for Mendo’s DA candidates.
From the World Food File: Brain Vegetable
by Freda Moon
My pops and his lovely lady are in Jamaica right now, where they’re eating something called Brain Vegetable.
This just in, from the AVA’s intriguing foreign foods desk:
“Akee when boiled, drained and simmered in oil with salted dried cod with your choice of vegetables and hot peppers, becomes Jamaica’s national dish Akee and Saltfish.”
akee is also [...]
March 10, 2010 | Posted in Mendo Nosh | Read More »
Think Locally, Invest Locally
Not long ago the Ukiah Daily Journal ran an unsigned “In Our Opinion” column entitled “Back to the market we go.” The columnist advised readers that, although investing in the stock market involves risk, as demonstrated by the current downturn, “there may be some good deals out there for the smart buyer.”
The Journal criticized a [...]
March 4, 2010 | Posted in The Jaundiced Eye | Read More »
Jill Ravitch & Bruce Anderson on Glenn Sunkett
by Tim Stelloh
A couple of weeks ago I wrote about Glenn Sunkett’s problems firing public defender Linda Thompson. In the following excerpt from this week’s Off the Record, prosecutor Jill Ravitch and AVA editor Bruce Anderson weigh in on Sunkett’s Thompson problem…
Bruce McEwen reports: “Glenn Sunkett had his Marsden hearing last Wednesday, his formal attempt to dump [...]
Will Kenny Rogers Get A New Trial?
by Tim Stelloh
The latest attorney for disgraced Mendo Republican Kenny Rogers, who was convicted last summer of hiring a hitman to kill a political adversary, is claiming that Rogers’ last attorney so thoroughly botched his defense that the case deserves another try.
A Very Simple Proposal
The Groundswell following Dave Smith’s generous “Draft Scaramella for Supervisor” suggestion has been, ahem, less than underwhelming. Not one letter of support has been received for publication. And I think four, maybe five, people have indicated various degrees of lukewarm support to me personally. None of those five mentioned anything about my basic “platform” that [...]
Fort Bragg’s Smoking Police Report: The Documents Behind the Story
by Tim Stelloh
Below are links to the documents I used for this week’s story on the strange case of Robert Forest, who’s suing former Fort Bragg police Lt. (and current Merced commander) Floyd Higdon in federal court for causing Forest’s “malicious” and “wrongful” prosecution.
The incident the suit grew out of took place in November 2006 in downtown [...]
