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Valley People

PASTOR DICK COOLIDGE of Comptche has died. He was 95. The Coolidges established the soon thriving Chapel of the Redwoods in Comptche in 1979 where the church produced an annual Passion Play and was even…

Off The Record

VERN PIVER died Monday in San Francisco at the UC Hospital. He was 78. I'll have a full obituary in next week's paper. A native of Fort Bragg, Vern was among the Mendocino Coast's best…

Mendocino County Today: March 7, 2012

VERN PIVER died Monday in San Francisco at the UC Hospital. He was 78. I'll have a full obituary in next week's paper. A native of Fort Bragg, Vern was among the Mendocino Coast's best…

Mendocino County Today: March 6, 2012

A BILL passed Monday in the US House of Representatives and Thursday in the Senate would make it a felony to participate in many forms of protest associated with the Occupy Wall Street protests. Several…

Mendocino County Today: March 5, 2012

FROM A MARCH 1937 ISSUE of the San Francisco Chronicle: “Death looked into the eyes of five sailors off the Farallones last Friday when a school of killer whales, mad with the blood lust as…

Mendocino County Today: March 4, 2012

ACCORDING to a new study by David Latterman, Associate Director for the Leo T. McCarthy Center for Public Service and the Common Good at the University of San Francisco, Mendocino is the fourth most liberal…

Mendocino County Today: March 3, 2012

A LARGE CROWD turned out at the County Courthouse in Ukiah Thursday to attend a preliminary hearing for Billy Norbury, 33, of Redwood Valley. Most of the audience for the prelim, which only led to…

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