Lisa Chiapero and Mike Moilanen recently drove from Fort Bragg to Ukiah to visit their close friends Lucy, Pedro and Low Boy, a trio of Sulcata tortoises, native to Africa but fully at home on the exotic Mendocino Coast. The Sulcatas are very large. “People buy them,” Lisa explains, “when they fit in the palm [...]
Fire has been a “cleanser” in Mendocino County ever since Mendocino’s Chinatown was torched in the bad old days. In the 1970s there were the old fishing shacks on Portugee Beach, burned as a training exercise by the Fire Department in order to clear out the beatniks camping in them. The good old boys at [...]
by Don Cruser
1. The near shore ecosystem is healthy and does not need protecting. By near shore I mean from the high tide mark out to a depth of 60 feet. For most of Mendocino County’s shoreline, private property rights, steep cliffs, overgrown kelp beds, and a consistently rough ocean limit human access to this part of [...]
by Dan Bacher
Want to eat some great food and have a lot of fun while supporting fishery restoration in Mendocino County? Make sure that you attend the 39th annual World’s Largest Salmon Barbecue,” to be held in South Noyo Harbor in Fort Bragg, on Saturday, July 3. The event will be dedicated to restoration efforts in the [...]
So Aaron Vargas is going to state prison for killing the Fort Bragg businessman that he and a dozen other Mendocino Coast men said had molested them over the past two decades. Tuesday’s sentencing left no one happy, least of all a circle of Vargas’ family and friends who waged a futile campaign to win [...]
Is it “consensual” when a man as an adult engages in sex with another who began molesting him as a boy?
by Tim Stelloh
John Dalton, whose travails with Mendo’s drug cops more than a decade ago led to a civil rights lawsuit filed last November, was denied in San Francisco Federal District Court April 21.
How an enterprising fisherman and timber worker lost almost half a million in lumber on the Mendo Coast.
by The AVA
WE ARE GRATIFIED to see Fifth District Supes candidate Dan Hamburg support a few things we’ve advocated for a long time.
