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Mendocino County Today: February 22, 2013

JEFF COSTELLO WRITES: Got my last issue here in Portland on Wednesday, as the next issue was being distributed in Mendo. Sometimes it gets here early as Saturday, but not often. Monday is the usual…

Letters To The Editor

STOP FISH POACHING! Editor, Illegal poaching on the Garcia River / Feds asleep at the wheel. I’d like to share with you a heartbreaking story of federal inaction and mismanagement in the hope that you…

Mendocino County Today: February 21, 2013

SNOW ON THE HILLS Tuesday afternoon broke up the blandly balmy previous two weeks of summer-like days. At the higher elevations Hull Mountain to the east and the Yolly Bollys, snow could be measured by…

A Plea For Justice At Kent State

Was It about Civil Rights or Murdering Student Protesters? On February 9, 2013, the Kent State Truth Tribunal and Allison Krause’s family submitted a list of issues to be considered by the United Nations, including…

Mendocino County Today: February 19/20

CONGRESSIONAL REPRESENTATIVE LYNN WOOLSEY and Senator Barbara Boxer have long been champions of expanding the Cordell Banks and Gulf of the Farallones Marine Sanctuaries as a way to protect the coast from oil and gas…

Off The Record

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 attempted murder when he showed up at Dick's a half-hour…

Valley People

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 expressed at a closed session meeting of the board last…

Mendocino County Today: February 18, 2013

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 diverse cache was unearthed on the 55-acre property of 30-year…

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