by Mark Scaramella
There were four different official versions of the recent departure of Coast Hospital’s Chief Financial Officer Jacob Lewis. Hospital Business Development Director Heather Paulsen described Lewis’s departure as “taking on a new challenge.” Lewis himself saw his departure as “a growth opportunity.” The Hospital Board called it a voluntary resignation. And several Fort Bragg residents [...]
June 28, 2006 | Posted in
Health |
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by Freda Moon
Angela and Andy Harney escaped South Lake Tahoe 12 years ago. The bumper to bumper traffic, the seasonal ski bunnies, “the rat race,” as Angela puts it, had become too much for the couple. They wanted to raise their two daughters in a “rural lifestyle.” So they came to the Mendocino Coast, just north of [...]
by Freda Moon
Angela and Andy Harney escaped South Lake Tahoe 12 years ago. The bumper to bumper traffic, the seasonal ski bunnies, “the rat race,” as Angela puts it, had become too much for the couple. They wanted to raise their two daughters in a “rural lifestyle.” So they came to the Mendocino Coast, just north of [...]
June 28, 2006 | Posted in
Development |
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by Bruce Patterson
When in 1827 the Jedediah Smith party, 20 men herding 315 horses and mules, trapped and explored their way up California’s central valley and Sierra foothills, one of the things they found most remarkable was the placidity of the wildlife. If they came upon a herd of deer grazing in a meadow, they could shoot [...]
by Freda Moon
Rich Pyorre is hardly the picture of toughness. He’s 61, with a round, gently lined face and pale blue eyes the exact shade of his pale blue dress shirt. His Main Street, Fort Bragg, office is decorated with photos of his wife, two sons, and five grandchildren, a few plants and a figurine from the [...]
June 14, 2006 | Posted in
Local Government |
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by Tim Stelloh
Sitting at a large table at the head of the back room at the Mendocino Community Center on Monday night, Clinton Smith was furious. Smith, who looks like a scrawny Kenny Rogers (the Texan, not the infamous Mendo Republican) yanked off a pair of gold bifocals, picked up a sheet of paper and looked sternly [...]
