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Mendocino County Today: March 25, 2013

THE 12-YEAR OLD GIRL who went missing Thursday morning was safely found at a relative's home in Santa Rosa on Sunday. Jenica Fredrick was reported missing to the Lake County Sheriff's Office (LCSO) in the…

Mendocino County Today: March 24, 2013

BYPASS PROTEST UPDATE by Jennifer Poole, Willits Weekly www.facebook.com/WillitsWeekly Initially, seven protesters who didn’t leave were arrested Thursday morning, and later that afternoon. Warbler is still sitting high in the Ponderosa pine tree off Highway…

Mendocino County Today: March 23, 2012

DAN GJERDE, newly elected 4th District supervisor, provided crisp, to-the-point answers to several questions we put to him this week: AVA: Are you commuting to Ukiah from your home in Fort Bragg? GJERDE: I sometimes spend…

Mendocino County Today: March 22, 2013

WILLITS WEEKLY'S CAT LEE reporting from the CHP press conference Thursday regarding the Willits Bypass and related protest(s): Eight arrests, no violence, no resistance, no destruction of equipment or damage to land. Protesters transported to…

Letters To The Editor

WHO’S IN THE POOL? Editor, Thursday, March 14, at 1pm, Mendocino County Treasurer, Shari Schapmire, convened a “Roundtable Discussion” of the Mendocino County Treasury Pool. We met in Conference C at the County Administration Center…

Mendocino County Today: March 21, 2013

WILLITS BYPASS? Hard to understand. The traffic through Willits is an embarrassment always and impossible on weekends. You can avoid through-town traffic by turning right at Brown's Corner and going over to Center. Can short-cut…

Mendocino County Today: March 20, 2013

SUPERVISOR JOHN PINCHES, according to Willits News staff writer Linda Williams, told the Brooktrails Community Services District last Tuesday that at least one supervisor favors removing Brooktrails completely from the Teeter plan, but that he,…

Off The Record

ABOUT 75 PEOPLE opposed to Caltrans’ plans for a bypass around Willits responded to a “high alert” call from Save Little Lake Valley to show up Monday morning starting at 7am at the tree-sit site…

Valley People

DEBORAH SARSGARD has had to resign from her position as CSD trustee while she fights off cancer. Ms. Sarsgard is presently resting at a nursing care facility in Oakland in between rounds of chemo-therapy at…

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