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Mendocino County Today: January 25, 2012

COUNTY COUNSEL Nadel announced late Monday that the County employees bumblingly represented by SEIU have voted in favor of the proposed Tentative Agreement as have the Supervisors: • A 10% permanent general wage reduction effective the…

Mendocino County Today: January 24, 2012

TOM KURISKY, 63, of Westport has been identified as the man killed last week in the 9:30am accident near Murphy's Pond on Highway 20 about ten miles east of Fort Bragg. Kurisky had drifted into…

Mendocino County Today: January 23, 2012

RUSSIAN RIVER grape growers are supposed to have their water management plans approved by February 4, according to the state Water Resource Control Board’s new frost protection rules enacted late last year. Mendo’s Russian River…

Mendocino County Today: January 22, 2012

LEONARD CIRINO is suffering from cancer. The well-known poet lived for years in Albion before moving to Springfield, Oregon a few years ago to care for his elderly mother. Leonard’s medical condition can be monitored here.…

Mendocino County Today: January 21, 2012

FROM LINDA WILLIAMS of the Willits News: “Nearly 53% of all Mendocino County mothers reported using tobacco, marijuana or alcohol before knowing they were pregnant compared to the state average of 24%. The percentage Mendocino…

Today In Mendocino County: January 20, 2012

ORWELLIAN statement of the week goes to the Ukiah Valley Medical Center as it summarily terminated the employment of five persons: “To protect the employee from any potential liability related to security of proprietary information,…

Mendocino County Today: January 19, 2012

JUDGE HENDERSON is about to revisit a four-year state prison sentence he meted out to Cody Fisher, 30, on December 19th. Henderson is bringing Fisher back into his courtroom on February 10th to give him…

Today in Mendocino County: January 18, 2012

SUPERVISOR MCCOWEN has been elected Board chairman, Supervisor Hamburg, vice chair at the Board's first meeting of the year last week. The vote was a unanimous 5-0.  A Lilliputian squabble occurred last year over whether McCowen or…

Today In Mendocino: January 17, 2012

QUIET news day in Mendocino County, with the 20 degree cold snap being the primary conversation starter with the 49er's stunning victory over the New Orleans Saints on Saturday the second most talked about event.…

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