THE WYE FIRE has burned 8,000 acres in eastern Lake County and adjoining Colusa County. As of Wednesday night, CalFire has pronounced it 70 percent contained. SAN FRANCISCO’S CABRERA SUSPENDED. The Office of the Commissioner…
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WAR & GUNS, AN EXCHANGE Editor, I enclose my latest two letters (and what provoked them) to the Contra Costa Times. We are allowed one letter a month but at least they ran. * *…
THE HOT WEATHER. Sigh. Monday, it was 104 in Boonville, hotter yet over the hill in Ukiah. Our usual late summer pattern is two-to-four hot days relieved by the inevitable cooling fog moving up The…
POST OFFICE BLUES — MANY OF OUR PRINT SUBSCRIBERS ARE COMPLAINING THAT THEIR PAPERS ARE A WEEK LATE IF THEY SHOW UP AT ALL. OUR COLLEAGUES AT THE ICO IN GUALALA ARE ALSO BEDEVILED BY…
THE GOLDEN STATE'S government has discovered $119 million more in hidden funds, the Governor's office has announced. These millions are in accounts for healthcare programs, reimbursement of crime victims and cleanup of underground petroleum tanks.…
TWO LARGE FIRES, causes as yet unknown, continue to burn in northeast Lake County. Highway 20 between Highway 53 in Lake County and I-5 in Colusa County was closed early Monday morning and remains closed…
AS THE FORT BRAGG POLICE served a search warrant Wednesday in the 300 block of North Harrison Street, they found an entire apartment creatively wired to serve an indoor marijuana grow. All of the rooms…
FRIDAY'S LA TIMES editorialized that Arcata's panhandling ordinance, enacted in 2010, “…is too broad and too punitive, emblematic of the excesses that many municipalities succumb to in confronting the unsightly but all too human problems…
COAST HOSPITAL STAFF told the Hospital Board at its July 26th meeting that the 3% raise agreed to in their existing contract which was recently reinstated when the employees’ union lawyer wrote a letter to…