CAL FIRE said Tuesday afternoon that the Pass fire burning northeast of Covelo had destroyed four homes and seven outbuildings and had grown overnight by about 3,500 acres, bringing the total acreage consumed by the…
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THE NORTH PASS FIRE burning northeast of Covelo has, as of Monday noon, consumed 31,650 acres. Cal Fire says the blaze is “32% contained.” The fire began early the morning of Saturday, August 18th. It…
THE AVA IS BEING SQUEEZED big time by the Post Office. The people who proudly advertise themselves as getting NetFlicks to you by snow shoe if they have to, have ceased delivering the AVA in…
THE NORTHCOAST JOURNAL'S Ryan Burns writes: “Five of [Humboldt] County’s seven incorporated cities won’t see any competition on their November ballots: Arcata, Blue Lake, Ferndale, Rio Dell and Trinidad each qualified just enough candidates to…
TA DA! The County has announced a “Communication Plan Progress Report Available Online.” Natch, this masterwork is the expert labor of the inevitable consultants, a couple of local women paid, so far, $8,000, some $3,000…
THE NORTH PASS FIRES burning some 10 miles northeast of Covelo have now consumed 17,820 acres and are again only "10 percent contained," CalFire said Thursday afternoon, down a percentage point from yesterday when the…
SOURCES in the Mendocino County Public Attorney's Association (MCPAA) confirm that our legal eagles have reached agreement with the County to scale back the current 12.5% wage cut to 10% in return for granting the…
OUR SHERIFF ALLMAN was quoted by Glenda Anderson of the PD that he “agrees with Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio's tough stand on illegal immigration,” a statement the Sheriff indignantly denied Monday afternoon and wasn't exactly…
A RATHER STARTLING story in Sunday's Press Democrat describes a meeting of rural sheriffs from sparsely populated NorCal counties convened in Ukiah by Mendo Sheriff Tom Allman, the cops being some kind of offshoot of…