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Letters (June 4, 2014)

Regarding the frost fan controversy, I’m curious about the decision-making process local grape growers used that produced giant, community-disrupting noise machines? For example, did they do any research at all into alternative, quieter wind machines such as Shur Cold Air Drains and the 4-blade Australian Frost Fans? And, if so, why did they choose the loudest alternative? Was an alternative of having more, but quieter fans rejected as too expensive? Was it a strictly bottom-line, community-be-damned decision?

Valley People (June 4, 2014)

At 5:16am the Boy Scout Camp, Navarro, reported a “combative, hallucinogenic (sic) patient. A 500-person “juggling fair” was underway at the Camp. We suspect, however, a rave whose alleged 500 attendees were juggling ecstasy, some of which they just happened to ingest, hence the combative, hallucinating juggler.

Off the Record (June 4, 2014)

THE THREE PERSONS arrested earlier this week in a Fort Bragg DEA raid, complete with helicopter, are identified as Rebecca Reynolds, 53, her daughter Jayne…

Mendocino County Today: Wednesday, June 4, 2014

Preliminary Election Results;
Masonite Water Right Revoked;
Incompetents, Not Fascists;
Noise Investigation;
Husch Hand Digging;
Home Run BBQ;
Catch of the Day;
Police Calls;
Ukiah/Hopland Fire;
No Bookmobile Today;
Comptche BBQ;
Willits Wetlands;
The Oligarchy;
Modern Physics;
Dog Killers

Mendocino County Today: Tuesday, June 3, 2014

Pension Tension;
Bypass Modification;
Police Calls;
Medical Assistants;
ElderHome Fundraiser;
Big Easy's Krishna;
Biography for the Birds;
Little Bighorn (Day 4);
Tie Goes to the Fracker

Turning the Wheel of Life

‘Woven Worlds’ illuminates past, present of Mendocino County native peoples. On Saturday, June 21, the Mendocino County Museum will welcome all to a reception for…

Horns & Okra, Ukiah, Sunday, June 15

The Dirty Dozen Brass Bandwill Perform First Concert At Sundays In The Park Concerts on Sunday June 15th in Todd Grove Park at 6pm. Fowler…

Mendocino County Today: Monday, June 2, 2014

SF Yesterday & Today;
Crazy Gun Laws;
Water Issues;
Rural Skills;
Quieter Fans;
Sunbeam Lovers;
Wolf Fear;
Election Day;
Writer's Face;
Catch of the Day;
Little Bighorn (Day 3);
Helpless Americans;
First Yosemite Photographs

Straw Bale House Building

The Solar Living Institute in Hopland will offer a weekend workshop on “How to Build A Straw Bale House” on June 7 and 8 from…

Mendocino County Today: Sunday, June 1, 2014

Hit & Walk;
Drunken Consequences;
Playing Water Gods;
Postal Mysteries;
Poor Political Power;
Prohibition Countdown;
Catch of the Day;
Police Calls;
In Some Summers;
Little Bighorn (Day 2);
Botched Lethal Injection

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