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Valley People

EARTHQUAKE TREMOR this morning, Tuesday the 13th, rolled Boonville at 5:40am the US Geological Survey said the jolt measured 3.4 on the Richter Scale and was centered about nine miles southeast of Ukiah and nine…

Mendocino County Today: November 13, 2012

ELECTION NOTES, MENDOCINO COUNTY. Assembled by Mark Scaramella & Bruce Anderson Fleeting impressions. As usual, most people lost, and, as usual, almost half those eligible to vote didn't bother. Obama and Romney spent about six…

Mendocino County Today: November 12, 2012

CRIME OF THE WEEK: ON OCTOBER 26, 2012, deputies responded to the Mendocino Coast District Hospital where they contacted Tonya Scheurich and Andrew Jacobsen. Both reported that they had been kidnapped, held against their will…

Mendocino County Today: November 11, 2012

UPDATE. A head-on crash south of Leggett killed a 70-year-old Fairfield man and sent his wife and the other driver to local hospitals Thursday afternoon, according to the California Highway Patrol. The driver who died…

Mendocino County Today: November 10, 2012

IT'S LOOSE ALL OVER. From the Richmond District, SF, police log: “On 11/03/12 at 4:20pm, officers were sent to a parking lot off of 19th Ave and Geary regarding juveniles who were tampering with vehicles.…

Mendocino County Today: November 9, 2012

FINAL ELECTION NIGHT RETURNS for Mendocino County were not posted until 1:43 Wednesday morning. Many thousands of ballots remain to be counted and no further updates will be provided until final election returns are reported…

Off The Record

DONALD R. NELSON, a lifelong resident of the Mendocino Coast, passed away early in the morning of November 6, at home in the care of loved ones. He was a timber faller for over twenty…

Letters To The Editor

OPT OUT UPDATE AVA Editors and readers The California Public Utilities Commission has been meeting since November 2nd for 2 weeks to discuss the Smartmeter Op Out regulation they accepted last year. The meeting includes…

Mendocino County Today: November 8, 2012

ELECTION NOTES, first impressions. As usual, everyone lost, and, as usual, almost half the people eligible to vote didn't bother. Mendocino County has a new congressman exactly like the old one, while the old one…

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