by The AVA
IF CONGRESSIONAL CANDIDATE HUFFMAN has any friends in Mendocino County, that person might want to let him know that his list of endorsers including Supervisor Smith and Superintendent of Schools Tichinin will cause voters to scream and run directly to another candidate.Subscribe now to access our entire site—only $25 for 1 year. Rather pay with [...]
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THE CITY OF FORT BRAGG has presented the late Vern Piver’s family with a proclamation honoring the universally popular Piver, known and admired throughout Mendocino County, for his many years of community service. The new flagpole at the high school varsity baseball field features a plaque at its base in memory of Piver, among the [...]
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RARELY do we celebrate County appointments, but we’re pleased to see Karen Wandrei appointed to the second-in-command position at the Welfare (aka Health & Human Services) Department. We very much admired Ms. Wandrei for her firm stance against dope in her old position as boss at the Youth Project. We remember one event where she [...]
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CALTRANS has been ordered by a federal judge to correct its carelessly drafted environmental analysis that would widen and realign Highway 101 through the ancient redwoods of Richardson Grove State Park in Humboldt County. Southern Humboldt environmental groups went to court in 2010 to stop the project, which is designed to make it easier for [...]
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FERNDALE HIGH SCHOOL’S football program has been put on probation for next season by NorCal’s high school sports honchos. A few of Ferndale’s more oafish fans have pelted visiting teams with what the school bureaucrats are describing as “racial epithets,” pronounced by them as “epitaffs” or “epilauts.” McClymonds and Salesian high schools both complained about [...]
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VERN PIVER died Monday in San Francisco at the UC Hospital. He was 78. I’ll have a full obituary in next week’s paper. A native of Fort Bragg, Vern was among the Mendocino Coast’s best known and most widely respected citizens.Subscribe now to access our entire site—only $25 for 1 year. Rather pay with a [...]
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This Week: Mendo’s big, empty buses; Home Invasion Season, 2012; A drunk driving death & a lenient judge; and much more
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This Week: Who Bombed Judi Bari, redux; Two decades years later, still searching for Kristi Krebs; at the Fort Bragg mill site, hopes for post-industrial sanity; and much more
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This Week: The Big Ponz & Zero-Tax Filers; Closing Fort Bragg’s spiffy pool; Rich lady loses paintings, sues Elk Volunteer Fire Department; and much more
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FOX NEWS and related rightwing blowhards aside, during WWII the national debt was more than 100% of Gross Domestic Product, which it will probably be again soon. To beat back crippling debt, FDR, a member of the One Percent in the days the One Percent believed in at least a modicum of noblesse oblige, raised [...]
