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Posts published by “Mark Scaramella”

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County Notes (March 14, 2018)

LAST OCTOBER, Acting Ag Commissioner Diane Curry told the Board of Supervisors that as far as she knew “only three” of the 734 pot cultivation applicants up to that point had suffered Fish & Wildlife…

Sheriff Gets His Needs Assessment

Margie Handley, Chairperson of the Howard Hospital Foundation, opened the meeting by telling the Measure B (Mental Health Facilties and Treatment) Advisory Board that the Old Howard Hospital is “a viable option.” She said some…

The Final Indignity

Your trusty local reporter, as always selflessly volunteering for the betterment of the community, has never been thrown out of a public meeting. But, after being asked to attend the local school district's Budget Reduction…

Commissioner Curry’s Swan Song

At last Tuesday’s meeting of the Supervisors, (former) Interim Ag Commissioner Diane Curry defended her department’s slo-mo handling of pot permits by essentially saying the process was and is just too complicated. Curry made an…

County Notes (Feb. 7, 2018)

Sheriff Tom Allman’s Measure B Advisory Committee got off to a faltering start Wednesday of last week. It appeared that none of the eleven “commissioners” had come prepared, even though they all supported Measure B…

County Notes (Jan. 24, 2018)

IT TURNS OUT, Mendo is wasting a lot more than $50k on their pot regulation planning/zoning consultant. And it’s more of a waste than we thought. The County is paying $142,000 to Michael Baker International…

County Notes (Jan. 17, 2018)

KIRK THOMSEN has been unceremoniously put on administrative leave from his job as Interim Ukiah Valley Fire Chief following an abrupt dismissal involving the formal taking of the keys to the firehouse a few days ago.

County Notes (Jan. 10, 2018)

Predictably, the Board of Supervisors made the giant 40% pay raise they gave themselves official last Tuesday morning. Albion’s Sherry “Boobs Not Busts” Glaser made the only cogent statement in opposition (see below), the remainder…

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