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Posts published by “Mark Scaramella”

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Log Rustling, Fort Bragg Style

How an enterprising fisherman and timber worker lost almost half a million in lumber on the Mendo Coast.

Who’s In Charge?

Community Services District Manager Serina Wallace has suggested to the Community Services District board that they change the way they budget district operations. Instead of most of the money coming into the fire department and…

Health Care Crisis Hits Home

The unthinkable has been thunk. The supervisors discussed the elimination of healthcare coverage for County retirees under the age of 65.

Building A Bypass On Shifting Sands

"Little Lake Valley (town site of Willits) is an intermontane basin within the northern California Coast Ranges that contains a record of basin sedimentation and deformation during the Pleistocene. Little Lake Valley is remarkable because…

Dredging Up Fees; Building Fences

At the beginning of last week’s Board of Supervisors meeting Fifth District Supervisor David Colfax asked if anyone knew what happened to the mud recently dredged from Noyo Harbor. “Is it dredged up material or…

A Taste of Regulation Ends Up In the Spit Bucket

The title of a recent piece in the Santa Rosa Press Democrat claimed that "Wine country visitors debate later tasting hours." But the body of the story made it clear that the "visitors" were not…

Three Card Monte

Mendocino County CEO Carmel Angelo told the Board of Supervisors last week that her office had considered several ways to make up the County’s $7.6 million deficit through June of 2011 – staff reductions, salary…

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