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Posts published by “Mark Scaramella”

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Desert’s Gate Welcomes You To Ukiah

In early 2005, Ukiah Developer Chris Stone imagined his Garden’s Gate development for an abandoned vineyard parcel south of Ukiah. Almost five years later, and just last week, the County and the Board of Supervisors…

Elephant? What Elephant?

DA Lintott told the Supervisors last week that crime was up. She didn’t mention that “disorderly conduct” arrests are also up, way up, but many of these arrests go unprosecuted because they are of the…

What Kind of Supervisor Would John McCowen Be?

KZYX listeners are famously tolerant of audio tedium. But even they may recall Ukiah City Councilman John McCowen's long-winded appearances on the evening news when the droning Ukiah City Councilman delivered narcoleptic lectures on the…

‘Of Paramount Importance’

  Improbable as it sounds, yes, The state has made it official – it's “borrowing” 8% of our Community Services District’s property tax money. District General Manager Serina Wallace estimates that Sacramento's long distance reach…

Septic Easements & Other Effluent

Mendocino County is broke and getting broker by the week. Just last week the State announced that it was “borrowing” another $3 million from Mendocino County and proportionate amounts from all the other counties in…

Saving Deputy Walker

Mendocino County is broke, and broker by the day. All branches of County government, including the Sheriff's Department, have been forced to cut expenditures. Along with the proposed cuts there’s been lots of talk at…

Tempers Flare, Priorities Flee

On July 14 the Mendocino County Board of Supervisors came back from a wholly unearned three week vacation to take care of such crucial business as whether or not the Ukiah Valley Sanitation District could…

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