When Mendocino County Sheriff Jeremiah “Doc” Standley arrested twenty-two year old Joseph McKay at the Burns Hotel of Santa Rosa in late November, 1891, it would have been reasonable for the lawman to assume his…
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About 8 a.m. on the morning of November 15, 1891, Charles Lambert, driver on the Eureka to Ukiah stage run, guided his team up a relatively steep grade 18 miles north of the Mendocino County…
Tim Moellering, history teacher and baseball coach at Berkeley High School, died on a Tuesday in 2011, after a lengthy struggle against cancer. Moellering's Berkeley High career followed nineteen years cross town teaching and coaching…
Mendocino Coast District Hospital (MCDH) held a Board of Directors meeting on the last day of May. The agenda contained some of the usual, such as a closed session item about the federal lawsuit Hardin…
“For the tractor, despite its early promise to free mankind from grinding toil, has also brought us to the brink of ruin through carelessness and over use. This has happened throughout its history, but the…
Will Lee is the current vice mayor of the City of Fort Bragg. He is also the director of medical staff services at Mendocino Coast District Hospital (MCDH). When supporters of that institution's attempt to…
Mendocino Coast District Hospital's (MCDH) Board of Directors has canceled its monthly Planning Committee meeting for May. It strikes this observer as odd to cancel a chance to express a clear vision of future planning…
“Life is cheap up here on the Canadian,” is a line from Lonesome Dove that has stuck with me. When something goes even moderately wrong at the ranch I sometimes say, “Life sure is rough…
At the April 26th Mendocino Coast District Hospital (MCDH) Board of Directors meeting, the District's legal counsel was directed to draft a resolution that would remove Dr. Lucas Campos from his seat on the board.…