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Mendocino County Today: May 3, 2013

THE MEETING to discuss Mendo street people seems to have embarrassed the Mendocino Village people who called it. DAVID GURNEY WRITES: “On Monday, April 29, Albert Morales wrote on the MCN Announcement list: ‘This Wednesday,…

Letters To The Editor

NAZI ERRATA AVA, While reading The Memoirs of Field-Marshal Wilhellm Keitel, Oberkommando der Wehmacht under Adolf Hitler in World War Two I came across the attached passage from his book. Keitel wrote much of his…

Mendocino County Today: May 2, 2013

THE LAST TWO tree sitters at the Willits Bypass have come down from their nests. Jean Weilbach, 23, of Fort Bragg, who'd called herself “Crow” and an Oregon woman who called herself “Owl” returned to…

Off The Record

THE HAMBURG-ROBERTS 2010 race for Fifth District Supervisor was, for laid-back Mendocino County, intense and bitter while it was underway, and unlikely to become less bitter with the news that the California Fair Political Practices Commission has fined…

Valley People

BILL HARPER brings us the terrible news that Henry Hill died last Wednesday at his Navarro home. The story of Henry's remarkable life appears in next week's paper. MUSSELS gathered on the Mendocino Coast are…

Mendocino County Today: May 1, 2013

FROM the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office: "Seeking the public’s help in locating a missing person. On 04-25-2013 a Humboldt County Sheriff’s Deputy spoke on the telephone with the father of Garret Rodriguez who reported him…

A Theft Near Albion; Reward Offered

On Thursday, April 25, between 5:00 and 6:00 p.m., while visiting the Mendocino Land Trust Navarro Point property on Hwy. 1 about 1.5 miles south of Albion before visiting friends in the Anderson Valley, my Toyota Tacoma…

Mendocino County Today: April 30, 2013

THERE WERE THREE AB DIVING DEATHS over the weekend, one off MacKerricher north of Fort Bragg identified as that of Henry Choy, 50, of San Bruno. Kenneth Liu, 36, of San Francisco was caught in…

Mendocino County Today: April 29, 2013

ACCORDING TO a wine-grower profile by Congressman Huffman’s (formerly Congressman Thompson’s) aide Heidi Cusick Dickerson back in 2010, Milovina Vineyards grows several varieties of grapes at their “manicured fish friendly farmed vineyards” outside of Hopland.…

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