A 14-year-old Navarro girl was raped and severely beaten Friday night and into Saturday morning by two Philo men the victim has identified as Julio Rengal-Ceja, 18, and Jose Lopez Garibay, 29. A group of young people, including the victim, had gathered on the grounds of the Anderson Valley Health Center to drink and smoke [...]
by Pol Brennan
Days turn to weeks, weeks to months and I think back to when I was first arrested by Border Patrol agents in Texas and told that this would take, at maximum, a few weeks. That might have been true if at one’s first court appearance you readily accepted deportation without challenging the underlying reasons for [...]
Cool temperatures, gentle winds, Mendocino County’s steadfast volunteer fire departments, and impromptu neighborhood groups, have combined to hold the line on the most menacing of Mendocino’s fires, now in their second full week. Throughout the County, volunteer firefighters and hurry-up neighborhood groups have proved to be essential to the overall counter-attack, doing everything from helping [...]
They glide silently through the Golden Gate, ships so large they briefly obscure great swathes of Marin as they move deep into the San Francisco Bay. The seagoing dirigibles with the faraway names are stacked to their captain’s bridges with box car size portable containers stuffed with everything from men’s underwear to baseballs, all of [...]
