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Mendocino County Today: October 18, 2012

PSYCHIATRIST SAYS NORBURY FEELS PERSECUTED. by Tiffany Revelle The defense called a psychiatrist and other witnesses to the stand Tuesday in the ongoing murder trial for Billy Norbury, who is accused of shooting and killing…

River Views

The first white people to settle this place alongside the Albion River were treated with kindness by the Pomo who periodically camped on a portion of what came to be called the Macdonald Ranch. Those…

Autodelusion

In 1950 the journal Mind featured a curious proposal for determining if a computer could think. Submitted by code-breaker and computing pioneer Alan Turing, the idea was that an examiner would pose questions to a…

Inventing Ourselves

“You don’t have to suffer to be a poet. Adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.” — John Ciardi My last few trips to the village of Mendocino have coincided with the lunchtime release of the…

Off The Record

A FEDERAL TASK FORCE raided the Potter Valley family property of Mendocino County Under-Sheriff Randy Johnson last Thursday (October 11th). The raid team included DEA, FBI and IRS agents who are said to have confiscated…

Valley People

RYAN J. WALLIS, 32, of San Francisco, has been arrested for suspected drunken driving and vehicular manslaughter in the death of his younger sister in a 3am single vehicle crash near Navarro early Friday morning…

Looking Back, Part 1

I never attended Kindergarten. I’ve had the audacity, over the years and decades, to claim that fact as the underlying reason for every life failure (or life lesson gone awry) that I’ve ever experienced since…

Mendocino County Today: October 17, 2012

A FEDERAL TASK FORCE raided the Potter Valley family property of Mendocino County Under-Sheriff/Captain Randy Johnson last Thursday (October 11th). The raid team included DEA, FBI and IRS agents who are said to have confiscated…

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