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School Bond Update

As 2012 draws to a close it is a good time to give an update on the school construction projects and to answer a few…

Letters To The Editor

PUNISHING D-TANK Editor, Punish one, Punish all. I am one of the many inmates in Mendocino County Jail in Ukiah who have prison terms in…

Mendocino County Today: December 27, 2012

THE ANNUAL RANCHERIA RESCUE, 2012. Usually it happens this way: A kayaker, or a group of them, underestimates the time it will take to schwoosh…

End Of The Year Awards

Biggest Boondoggle, Ongoing — The Willits Bypass has been allocated hundreds of millions of public dollars but will not only be built with no on…

Off The Record

THE NEW COUNTY COURTHOUSE is proceeding whether the rest of us want it or not, and few people apart from our cossetted cadre of judges,…

Valley People

THE WILDEST WEATHER in some time has been pounding the Northcoast, with Anderson Valley absorbing a dozen direct lightning strikes between Boonville and Philo with…

Mendocino County Today: December 26, 2012

BREAK THROUGH LEAD SENTENCE by Derek Moore in the Press Democrat's Christmas Eve weather story: “After a break in the weather, rain is expected to…

Mendocino County Today: December 25, 2012

ACCORDING TO State Controller Data for 2011 Mendocino County had 108 employees whose individual total compensation (base pay, benefits and overtime) exceeded $90k per year.…

Mendocino County Today: December 24, 2012

MORE WET WEATHER AHEAD for Mendocino County and surrounding areas. Highway 128 was closed near the mouth of the Navarro River on Sunday and is…

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