LAST MAY we wrote about an often-arrested 28-year-old Albion man named Riley Kiesel. He'd been permanently 86'd from Dick's Place in Mendocino, but was charged with…
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THE ANDERSON VALLEY SCHOOL BOARD seems poised not to renew high school principal James Tomlin's contract. The majority board sentiment to remove Tomlin was apparently…
HUMBOLDT COUNTY POLICE recently found a small cave filled with more than 100 firearms, 117 pounds of marijuana, stolen vehicles and $12,000 in cash. The…
LETTER OFTHE WEEK: SHE'S AVAILABLE Editor, I'm sure most of the population of the world, including the majority of Catholics, are unaware that the college…
MICHAEL TOMS of New Dimensions Radio has died from diabetes at age 72. Toms cashed in on the national narcissism known as the “consciousness movement,”…
THURSDAY MORNING'S PRESS DEMOCRAT contained a minor masterpiece of grammatical Stalinism followed by Nice Person Stalinism, Mendo style. Discussing the hiring of former Willits City…
ONLINE DATING. By Jeff Costello Am I admitting this? Yes, I guess so. I've been married (using the term loosely) twice, have four grown kids…
I NEVER THOUGHT I'd be saying that the Mendocino County Board of Supervisors is savvier and more on-task than the San Francisco Board of Supervisors,…
THE PERILS OF BLIND OBEDIENCE. Just in from the Sheriff: “On February 08, 2013 around 11:45am, Mendocino County Sheriff’s Office K-9 ‘Argus’ died as a…
THE KEEGAN MURDER CASE remains on hold. How long will it remain on hold? If we weren't talking about a murder it would be laughable…
THE CASPAR INN will close at the end of this month. The legendary music venue with rooms for rent upstairs was for years the go-to…