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Letters To The Editor

SAVE TEN-MILE COURT Dear Editor: I would like to inform ALL the Mendocino Coast citizens to the fact, that a few people have set in motion to remove the Fort Bragg court. Not only will…

Mendocino County Today: November 22, 2012

THE PRESS DEMOCRAT is like reading the daily diaries of amnesiacs. Chris Smith's column on the Bari "mystery" in Wednesday’s paper is typical. http://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/20121121/NEWS/121129898 It's as if there's no history, that Cherney is still out…

Mendocino County Today: November 21, 2012

BONES ROADHOUSE in Gualala is the South Coast's most popular restaurant. Bones has been the South Coast's most popular restaurant for a long time. Its proprietors, Tom and Mary Thomas, besides employing people in an…

Off The Record

BONES ROADHOUSE in Gualala is the South Coast's most popular restaurant. Bones has been the South Coast's most popular restaurant for a long time. Its proprietors, Tom and Mary Thomas, besides employing people in an…

Valley People

THE ALARMING NEWS that we could lose our Boonville-based County Fair has us all thinking about strategies to make up the lost state subsidy, an amount of some $200,000 a year. Our first thought was…

Mendocino County Today: November 20, 2012

BONES ROADHOUSE employees are reeling after their beloved, fabulous, authentic, iconic, local money-generating bar-b-que restaurant was closed twice this weekend under a “keeper's levy” through the efforts of the owner of the Shoreline restaurant.  This…

Mendocino County Today: November 19, 2012

THE MENDOCINO COUNTY FAIR, aka The Boonville Fair, is on the ropes, running on fumes, life support, dying. The annual state subsidy of about $215,000 has been cut from the State's budget. Unless the Fair…

Mendocino County Today: November 18, 2012

ROAD NOTES: North For the Winter; Redux. By Jeff Costello Early morning, a donut shop in Ukiah. I half-stumble from my room at Motel 6, hoping a large coffee will set my internal latitude and…

Mendocino County Today: November 17, 2012

ACCORDING to an announcement signed “Beacon Staff” or “Advocate Staff,” depending on which of the interchangeable papers you were reading, Connie Korbel is retiring as editor of the two weeklies and former editor Kate Lee…

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