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Off The Record (Feb 11, 2014)

A MEETING to discuss the announcement that the College of the Redwoods plans to close its Fort Bragg campus will be held Monday, February 17th at Fort Bragg Town Hall, 12 noon to 2pm. ANOTHER…

Off The Record (Feb 4, 2014)

CONGRESSMAN HUFFMAN visited Boonville High School a couple of weeks ago. No, it has not yet been declared a crime scene. I wonder, though, what the captive, photo-opted students made out of it?

Off The Record (Jan 28, 2014)

Will Parrish’s attorney, Omar Figueroa of Sebastopol, made the following remarks last Thursday on the Ukiah Courthouse steps after the onerous charges against AVA reporter Will Parrish were reduced in a settlement between District Attorney David Eyster, the Court, and defendant Parrish.

Off The Record (Jan 22, 2014)

IT HASN'T RAINED, really rained, since December of 2012. Now that it's likely that the summer months will begin with no water reserves anywhere in the County, the full array of drought-caused catastrophes will be unleashed, from large-scale wildfires to much higher food prices to the death of this year's fish runs.

Off The Record (Jan 15, 2014)

THE MENDO County Supervisors, on Tuesday (7th January), voted unanimously to declare a local emergency “and imminent threat of disaster” from drought, and appointed two of its members, Carre Brown and Dan Hamburg, to an…

Off The Record (Jan 8, 2014)

THE US NATIONAL WEATHER Service has posted a photo of an empty Lake Mendocino. A drought of the 1975-76 magnitude is upon us. TUESDAY, the Supervisors, led by Carre Brown and John Pinches, declared a…

Off The Record (Jan 2, 2014)

WATER WORRIES. If winter doesn't reappear soon, inland Mendocino County, from Redwood Valley to Healdsburg, is in serious trouble. The Sonoma County Water Authority, out of necessity, and having drained Lake Mendocino, whose waters it…

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