The crowd at this weekend's County Fair picked up around three in the afternoon on Friday as the sun edged its way into the booth. The morning and early afternoon it had been quiet, slow…
Posts published by “Bruce McEwen”
Some of the sentencings couldn’t go forward this week because either the judges were missing or paperwork was late getting to the attorneys. Adam Degrenier’s fate was postponed because Judge William Lamb wasn’t present. The…
Chef Fransen's got the clean good looks of a young man who might come to your door with the Jehovah's Witnesses, that generic poster boy look. He's trim and keeps himself well groomed. Maybe it's…
Wine, good wine, as everybody knows, does not make you drunk. A 90 point pinot noir is not to be confused with 90 proof rum. Rum goes cheap. Wine goes for big bucks per swig.…
The union rally on the Courthouse lawn last Thursday nearly turned into a brawl. The Service Employees International Union Local 1021, representing Ukiah Courthouse employees, had brought in a circus tent and a DJ and…
A frantic 911 call last June alerted North County law enforcement to a drug deal that had gone bad, very bad, near Piercy, a pot heavy hamlet just below the Humboldt County line. An undetermined…
There’s much speculation about the apparent epidemic of cancer at the County Courthouse. First to be stricken was Judge Ron Brown, who came up through the ranks from the Public Defender’s office to become the…