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THE SUPERVISORS have "accepted" the resignation of County Counsel, Tom Parker, effective April 10th. There has been grumbling about Parker virtually since the day he arrived from Colusa County.

THE NUT of this area's water problems is that a large population has grown up around a delivery system devised in 1950.

Willits was identified as one of 17 places in California with imperiled water supplies due to the drought.

REPORTS FROM VARIOUS areas of the County say an average of six inches of rain has fallen on our parched lands since Thursday. The Russian River is waaaay up at Hopland, the streams of Anderson Valley are running strong, wells and springs everywhere from Gualala to Laytonville rejuvenated.

RAIN CONTINUES, AND SO DOES DROUGHT

With drought conditions expected to persist despite recent and forecast rain, officials are urging the public to continue conservation, and to follow local regulations in the event that their homes run dry.

THE WEATHER PEOPLE are now predicting as much as 8 inches of rain over the weekend. We'll all know for certain that we've seen a…

Sacramento County District Attorney Jan Scully announced today that a Mendocino County prosecutor who shot a pedestrian during a fight in Sacramento in October has been arrested on misdemeanor counts of carrying a loaded firearm in public and carrying a concealed weapon.

THE FEBRUARY MIRACLE? The upper level ridge that has blocked weather systems for the past three months will shift farther to the west and a low pressure system will move into the Gulf of Alaska.

Like everyone else, I was saddened by the death of Philip Seymour Hoffman. What a talent. How awful that something in him was so haunting that only the killer drug could fight it off.

SUSAN KEEGAN was found dead in her Ukiah home more than three years ago. Her husband, Dr. Peter Keegan, was the only other person in…