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Letters (June 4, 2014)

Regarding the frost fan controversy, I’m curious about the decision-making process local grape growers used that produced giant, community-disrupting noise machines? For example, did they do any research at all into alternative, quieter wind machines such as Shur Cold Air Drains and the 4-blade Australian Frost Fans? And, if so, why did they choose the loudest alternative? Was an alternative of having more, but quieter fans rejected as too expensive? Was it a strictly bottom-line, community-be-damned decision?

Valley People (June 4, 2014)

At 5:16am the Boy Scout Camp, Navarro, reported a “combative, hallucinogenic (sic) patient. A 500-person “juggling fair” was underway at the Camp. We suspect, however, a rave whose alleged 500 attendees were juggling ecstasy, some of which they just happened to ingest, hence the combative, hallucinating juggler.

Off the Record (June 4, 2014)

THE THREE PERSONS arrested earlier this week in a Fort Bragg DEA raid, complete with helicopter, are identified as Rebecca Reynolds, 53, her daughter Jayne Reynolds, 28 and Travis Nichols, 25, all of Fort Bragg,…

Mendocino County Today: Wednesday, June 4, 2014

Preliminary Election Results;
Masonite Water Right Revoked;
Incompetents, Not Fascists;
Noise Investigation;
Husch Hand Digging;
Home Run BBQ;
Catch of the Day;
Police Calls;
Ukiah/Hopland Fire;
No Bookmobile Today;
Comptche BBQ;
Willits Wetlands;
The Oligarchy;
Modern Physics;
Dog Killers

Mendocino County Today: Tuesday, June 3, 2014

Pension Tension;
Bypass Modification;
Police Calls;
Medical Assistants;
ElderHome Fundraiser;
Big Easy's Krishna;
Biography for the Birds;
Little Bighorn (Day 4);
Tie Goes to the Fracker

Turning the Wheel of Life

‘Woven Worlds’ illuminates past, present of Mendocino County native peoples. On Saturday, June 21, the Mendocino County Museum will welcome all to a reception for "Woven Worlds," a permanent exhibit celebrating the Native American heritage…

Horns & Okra, Ukiah, Sunday, June 15

The Dirty Dozen Brass Bandwill Perform First Concert At Sundays In The Park Concerts on Sunday June 15th in Todd Grove Park at 6pm. Fowler Auto & Truck Center, The City of Ukiah, KWNE-FM and…

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