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Mendocino County Today: November 13, 2013

IT'S THE THIRD anniversary of Susan Keegan's murder. Her husband, Dr. Peter Keegan, says his wife of 30 years died, drunk and stoned, in a bathroom fall. That's possible, one has to suppose, but Mrs. Keegan's death certificate says “Homicide,” not “Accidental.” Mrs. Keegan's death certificate says “Homicide” because, obviously, the only other person home at the time, her husband, bludgeoned her to death.

Mendocino County Today: November 12, 2013

POINT ARENA'S POPCORN GOATS   The deed on the two acre meadow along Point Arena Creek said the narrow strip of ag land on the canyon floor was a brush-free fire corridor for the City limits.

Mendocino County Today: November 11, 2013

IS SONOMA COUNTY STEALING MENDO WATER?
Supervisor John Pinches’ proposal for the Board of Supervisors to form an “ad-hoc committee” to look into Russian River water rights got off to a stumbling beginning last Tuesday when the titular sponsor of the idea — County Counsel Tom Parker — couldn’t find his own paperwork.

Mendocino County Today: November 10, 2013

WILL PARRISH’S TRIAL has been put over until January 27th because attorneys have not reviewed what Parrish's attorney, Omar Figueroa, describes as “voluminous” California Highway Patrol and Caltrans documents related to Parrish’s several arrests at…

Mendocino County Today: November 9, 2013

HEADLINE in Friday's Press Democrat read “In need of rain, lots of it.” The “story” was accompanied by a photo of a drained, mudflat called Lake Mendocino. The story should be called, “In Need of…

Mendocino County Today: November 8, 2013

THE DAY of the Kennedy Assassination, I was a temporary English teacher at San Luis Obispo Junior High School. After high school, I'd done a tour in the Marines, picked up college classes at City…

Mendocino County Today: November 7, 2013

CALTRANS claims that Will Parrish, all by himself, has cost the Willits Bypass project $500,000. DA Eyster seems to think the claim is reasonable, and is vowing to repeat-prosecute Parrish until he gets a conviction.…

It’s Not Pretty

Editor Oh, the irony! I have gone from living in a gorgeous Victorian apartment on sunny San Bruno Avenue to dwelling in a hideous cage in perpetually foggy San Bruno jail. My alleged crime is…

Off The Record

MY SISTER-IN-LAW, Diane Zucker, wife of my late brother, Ken, died last week. In my non-medical opinion she was killed by negligence at Sutter Health's California Pacific Medical Center, Buchanan and Clay, San Francisco. Diane…

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