Off The Record
by The AVA
This Week: Marijuanaland; Eight months later, a new prosecutor; Mendo’s budget demons; and much more
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August, 2011
Valley People
by The AVA
LAURA HAMBURG will speak at the meeting of the Community Services District Board on Wednesday, September 21st. Visitors usually speak at the beginning of the meeting, which would put Laura on at about 5:30pm. The CSD is already on record as opposed, but Laura can be very persuasive. SPEAKING of the proposed medical pot dispensary [...]
Summer Is Over
by Cody Hoover
There’s a door in the back of the Ten Mile Courtroom in Fort Bragg that is rarely left open. It’s behind the court reporter’s desk and Judge Brennan’s bench. As I sat in the gallery last Monday I noticed it had been left wide open, exposing a neglected hallway full of half filled file boxes, [...]
August 31, 2011 | Posted in Crime | Read More »
Working With Jere Melo
by The AVA
When I heard Jere Melo was shot, I was in shock. Then angry. Then sad. When news came that, yes, Jere did not survive, that he could not have survived the close-range shots from an automatic firearm, it was even more devastating. With an eyewitness and plenty of evidence, local law enforcement has a known [...]
Spy Rock Memories, Part 7, Continued
Before driving back to the city, the girl I had befriended in the city and I took a walk up to a stately rock formation that was straight out of one of those misty mountain Chinese scrolls. The previous winter a flock of wild turkeys had hung out there, following me around like puppies and [...]
Letters To The Editor
by The AVA
McCOWEN’S DISPENSARY FEES Editor, Supposing Supervisor John McCowen will take a hard line on dispensaries will entirely depend on how many fees McCowen can impose. Remember a little while ago, McCowen spearheaded the Measure B campaign to repeal a 25 plant limit and impose a 6 plant limit. He even went as far as setting [...]
Hope For The Addicted
by The AVA
Editor, I’m writing to say thank you for all you’ve done for me and the others who benefit from your terrific newspaper. I’m also writing as a rebuttal of the piece you carried on Frances Seymour who is a very nice and caring person because I know her and I also fight the disease of [...]
HumCo Preps For Prisoner Influx
by Daniel Mintz
The county is preparing to absorb incarceration of some of the felons now sent to state prisons and will launch programs that replace jail sentences for lower-level offenders. Approaches to realignment — the term that refers to the imminent shift of state prisoners to local jails — were described at an August 18 meeting of [...]
August 25, 2011 | Posted in Region/National | Read More »
Covelo Gravel Project Withdrawn
I spent last week compiling, organizing, and confirming the horde of information regarding the advent of the Grist Creek Aggregates proposed gravel mine in Covelo to write the (belated) next article in what was to be a series of articles on the project. Despite the fact that the hearing before the Board of Supervisors was [...]
August 25, 2011 | Posted in Region/National | Read More »
Bird’s Eye View
Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably then I shall begin. Coming up on the ballot in November will be the election of new school board members. There are already some very interesting developments as new candidates have now been announced. I have tried to find out exactly who is running and hopefully [...]
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