Last week we reported the County’s difficulties in rezoning a minimum number of Ukiah area acres to satisfy a court-ordered settlement agreement with Legal Services of Northern California. Legal Services had sued the County for…
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For the last week, between the hours of midnight and sunrise, the spirit of every noise pollution law ever written has been broken by the wine grape growers of the Anderson Valley. Why? How? Because…
The County has posted a list of all candidates for the June 2014 elections as of the closing date last week: http://www.co.mendocino.ca.us/acr/pdf/CANDIDATE_LIST_Final_June_2014.pdf
The Mendocino County Republican Central Committee will meet Saturday, March 22, 2014, 10:00 AM - 12:00 Noon at the Moura Senior Housing, 400 South Street, Fort Bragg, CA 95437. For further information contact: Stan Anderson,…
Celebrating its 25th anniversary of connecting writers to community, the Mendocino Coast Writers Conference opens registration March 15 for the three-day event, July 31-August 2, at the College of the Redwoods campus in Fort Bragg.…
Once again, as in 2010, I've been approached about running against one-term incumbent Dan Hamburg for Fifth District Supervisor. Certainly somebody should run. And I would myself, under one basic condition: At least six supporters…
Local grape growers would have trouble finding a better spokesperson than Sean White, General Manager of the Russian River Flood Control District, an entity that controls the 8,000 acre-feet of Lake Mendocino water owned by…
You may have noticed that most of the newer vineyards going in these days are what can be called “wall-to-wall” vineyards. Every plantable patch of vineyard dirt has vines on it. Sometimes the vines are even on the vineyard’s boundary fence.
At the Tuesday, January 7, 2014, meeting of the Mendocino County Board of Supervisors, John Pinches, newly seated as Board Chair, inserted a refreshing note of reality into an otherwise self-congratulatory parade of local officials…