DAVE NORFLEET and Paula Kesenheimer are just back from the State Grange convention in San Jose. Dave, as most of you know, is our Philo Grange master and unsung co-founder of Boonville Beer. He's also…
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This week: Want & Fear 2030, privatizing Mendo's mental health system, firing Point Arena's city clerk and much more.
THURSDAY NIGHT'S school board meeting will be a hot one, and here's why: Late last week, Ernie Pardini received a phone call from high school principal Jim Tomlin who proceeded, in typically passive-aggressive style —…
MOVE TO AMEND Dear Editor and readers; A recent poll found that 85% of US voters believe “corporations have too much influence over the political system,” and “93% say that average citizens have too little…
AGAIN, OUR PAPERS are lost. Or languishing at Petaluma's vast sorting center. Or some combination thereof. The Bay Area got its AVA's, as did Vermont and Atlanta and Philadelphia. The Northcoast didn't get their papers.…
SAKO’S RETIREMENT PROBS AGAIN Dear Editor: The main thing voters should know in this election is that much of Mendocino County politics has been corrupt in the past, and that we, the people, didn't seem…
THE TOLL HOUSE has not only been spared what was shaping up as its slow motion demise, but the historic way station in Bell Valley on the Ukiah Road has been fully restored and is…
LAST WEEK'S COVELO pot sweep netted more outsiders than Covelo people at modest grow sites. Included in the lengthy roster of arrests were a German national; two Vietnamese; a Laotian; a couple of dudes from…