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Posts published by “Mark Scaramella”

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Growing Pains

Probably sensing that Ukiah wasn’t exactly a hotbed of investment opportunities in 2017, the Bank of America closed their big downtown branch office. BofA then placed their form-does-definitely-not-follow function of an eyesore of a  building…

Let’s Have Agenda Reveal Party!

The Supervisors are coming back from their six-week hiatus (briefly interrupted by a brief meeting to rubberstamp some fund juggling). The Big Agenda Reveal was made Thursday. Everyone was giddy with anticipation for what the…

My Worst Job

In the summer of 1966 my father (who was then General Manager of the Danish Creamery Co-op in Fresno) asked me if I wanted to fill in for a couple of weeks while one of…

Is Anything Going On Behind The Green Curtain?

Former Deputy/Sheriff’s Investigator (Now Private Investigator) Kevin Cline of Ukiah on our article about the Supervisors taking six weeks off: I am sorry, but I have never taken six weeks off from work, except after…

Confessions Of A Failed Computer Professor

Actually, I was not a computer professor but a junior college part-time computer instructor in the late 1980s at Evergreen Valley Community College in San Jose. I bought a Radio Shack TRS-80 in 1979 when…

Supes Take Six Weeks Off

Mendo’s hard-working supervisors are taking another big six-week summer vacation. Their last meeting was July 29 when they decided that they couldn’t take even modest pay cuts, but they could do a fiscal assessment of…

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