COUNTY FAIR MANAGER JIM BROWN gave the Board of Supervisors a report about the somewhat improved finances at the Boonville County Fair last Tuesday: “Nine months ago our budget showed a $146,000 shortfall. We have…
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LONG TIME COUNTY CAO-CEO, AL BELTRAMI, HAS DIED. Sheriff Tom Allman has posted this statement: "Today, 11/23/13, a legend in Mendocino County passed away. His name was Al Beltrami. He had that magic ability to make…
AN AVA-DERIVED story appeared in Friday's Huffington Post, with the mighty Boonville weekly duly credited. The Huff's piece by writer David Lohr is called “Donald Cavanaugh and David Niely: Two Missing Men, Two Unsolved Mysteries.”…
Fort Bragg’s city government talks a lot about preserving and protecting existing small retail stores; allowing a Dollar Tree Store simply does not comply with that promise.
About planting swamp cypress, Taxodium distichum, I have some questions and suggestions. Does anyone at Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens or elsewhere have evidence that it will not become yet another plague of invasive trees disrupting coastal ecosystems?
THE COSTCO FINAL EIR (Environmental Impact Report) will be heard by the City of Ukiah Planning Commission on November 21, at 6:00 p.m. in the City Council chambers. In honor of the occasion, a new…
DAN ROBERTS is learning firsthand the truth of the observation that old age is not for sissies. He's in Rm. 108 of the Ukiah Valley Medical Center, where he's been for the past week undergoing…