Mendo Film office to Coast Hippies: ‘We Don’t Negotiate With Terrorists’ by Mark Scaramella Back in 1997, Warner Bros applied for a permit to make a movie on the Mendocino Headlands, a state park. According…
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THE LOST KAYAKER, the update: Rod Giuliani, the Greenwood Road volunteer firefighter, was dispatched to the Philo-Greenwood Bridge to see if the lost kayaker had floated downstream from where his partner came ashore. Turns out,…
GARETT MATSON OF FORT BRAGG has been arrested again, this time for grand theft, receiving stolen property and embezzlement. Matson's bail is set at a total of $75,000. He has been in trouble for years,…
A CLOSE OBSERVER of municipal lawsuits against the state's Department of Finance summarizes them this way: “We started this project and if you don't let us finish, the City will suffer harm/hardship.” Most of the…
THE ANNUAL RANCHERIA RESCUE, 2012. Usually it happens this way: A kayaker, or a group of them, underestimates the time it will take to schwoosh the rain-swollen Rancheria from Mountain View Road to Hendy Woods.…
BREAK THROUGH LEAD SENTENCE by Derek Moore in the Press Democrat's Christmas Eve weather story: “After a break in the weather, rain is expected to return to the North Bay Christmas Day right around the…
ACCORDING TO State Controller Data for 2011 Mendocino County had 108 employees whose individual total compensation (base pay, benefits and overtime) exceeded $90k per year. The total cost of these 108 top paid people was…