Marge Handley, the prominent Willits heiress and Republican philanthropist, owns a modest new home in a struggling subdivision off East Hill Road in South Willits called Haehl Creek. Mrs. Handley, 70, can retreat to her…
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Lisa Chiapero and Mike Moilanen recently drove from Fort Bragg to Ukiah to visit their close friends Lucy, Pedro and Low Boy, a trio of Sulcata tortoises, native to Africa but fully at home on…
Most of the time the water at Mendocino County's state parks is safe to drink. Sometimes, though, it's not safe to drink
On the otherwise tranquil early morning of Wednesday, June 23rd at 1:30am, Ukiah police and firemen were summoned to the Economy Inn where a 1980-ish Ford pick-up was “fully engulfed in flames.”
You can be seven feet tall and known all over town, but if you die alone and nobody pays the San Francisco newspaper for an obituary even your mother won't know that you're gone. It…
A deeply rural art gallery at the end of a Comptche dirt road is not likely to attract many visitors. Or any visitors. And sure enough its curator, Dan Parker, laughingly says of his remote…
In Mendocino County the marijuana rules are never dry.
Wake up one morning and people are saying the rule is 25 plants. Wake up another morning, it's back to six. A week later the feds are saying "zero tolerance."
Two staffers from Mendo's Department of Planning & Building were fired for swapping porn on office computers and with San Francisco's Planning & Building department.
The Boonville schools are falling down. They are half a century old, erected long before the computer and energy technologies that modern education has come to depend on. When today's high school and much of…