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Mendocino County Today: December 24, 2013

ONE MAN’S PLUMBER: AN HOMAGE TO BRIAN BLUMBERG by Thom Elkjer Economists use the phrase “essential utility” to describe something so important to a community…

Mendocino County Today: December 23, 2013

CORRECTION: JOHN BARTLETT of Hopland is not responsible for the controversial Christmas display we incorrectly attributed to him. We deeply regret the error. Apologies to Chief…

Mendocino County Today: December 22, 2013

FISHING THE NIGHT DEPOSIT BOX. An arrest has been made in a series of thefts involving bank deposits being fished out of banks, the Fort…

Mendocino County Today: December 21, 2013

KZYX MANAGER John Coate has announced that Paul Lambert will stop doing the local news as of December 24. Between December 25 and January 2,…

Mendocino County Today: December 20, 2013

PROBABLY TEN YEARS AGO, I was an occasional correspondent with a guy doing a long stretch in an iso unit at Pelican Bay State Prison.…

Letters To The Editor

THE TREE CONSPIRACY Editor, Regarding a couple of recent stories in the Journal; I drove down Mill Street today and took a look at those…

Mendocino County Today: December 19, 2013

BRIAN BLUMBURG, a long-time resident of Anderson Valley, died of a heart attack yesterday (Wednesday) at his home in Navarro. An unfailingly genial man, Brian…

Off The Record

THE CITY OF WILLITS is talking about water ration­ing. The failure of winter rains to appear is beginning to worry everyone from firefighters to water…

Valley People

EXCUSE ME, but is it any secret that the economy of Anderson Valley runs on dual intoxicants called mari­juana and wine? Why, then, would the…

Mendocino County Today: December 18, 2013

EXCUSE ME, but is it any secret that the economy of Anderson Valley runs on dual intoxicants called marijuana and wine? Why, then, would the…

Mendocino County Today: December 17, 2013

HOPLAND FIRE CHIEF JOHN BARTLETT has an interesting sense of humor. Last week he briefly had a plastic Santa peeing off his roof all modeled…

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