The day after escrow closed on the Fort Bragg property Wayne and Mason Cottrell bought out on Franklin Road, they logged the property next door. Mason Cottrell is a Fort Bragg police officer. Mason’s father-in-law is also a Coast police officer. You could say the Cottrells are a law enforcement family, not a logging family, [...]
The Grand Jury’s careful documentation of travel reimbursement abuse by Supervisors Kendall Smith (Fort Bragg) and J. David Colfax (Boonville) brought angry denunciations from both Smith and Colfax last week. Smith made her case on the KZYX Community News. In response to uninformed questions from KZYX’s tip-toeing Paul Hansen, the regal Smith, who looks like [...]
After last year’s Mendocino County Grand Jury reported that Supervisors Kendall Smith (Fort Bragg) and J. David Colfax (Boonville) had been overcharging the County for travel and hadn’t paid the money back, the Grand Jury turned up the heat last month in a follow-up report that identifies two supervisors as thieves. The Supervisors reimburse themselves [...]
