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Mendocino County Today: August 16, 2012

THE WYE FIRE has burned 8,000 acres in eastern Lake County and adjoining Colusa County. As of Wednesday night, CalFire has pronounced it 70 percent contained. SAN FRANCISCO’S CABRERA SUSPENDED. The Office of the Commissioner…

Letters To The Editor

WAR & GUNS, AN EXCHANGE Editor, I enclose my latest two letters (and what provoked them) to the Contra Costa Times. We are allowed one letter a month but at least they ran. * *…

River Views

Last week in the Mendocino County Clerk-Recorder’s office a great grandfather was not permitted to pick up a birth certificate for his great grandchild because the rules only allow a parent or grandparent to do…

Civil War

“I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.”  — Abraham Lincoln…

Valley People

THE HOT WEATHER. Sigh. Monday, it was 104 in Boonville, hotter yet over the hill in Ukiah. Our usual late summer pattern is two-to-four hot days relieved by the inevitable cooling fog moving up The…

Mendocino County Today: August 15, 2012

POST OFFICE BLUES — MANY OF OUR PRINT SUBSCRIBERS ARE COMPLAINING THAT THEIR PAPERS ARE A WEEK LATE IF THEY SHOW UP AT ALL. OUR COLLEAGUES AT THE ICO IN GUALALA ARE ALSO BEDEVILED BY…

Mendocino County Today: August 14, 2012

TWO LARGE FIRES, causes as yet unknown, continue to burn in northeast Lake County. Highway 20 between Highway 53 in Lake County and I-5 in Colusa County was closed early Monday morning and remains closed…

Mendocino County Today: August 13, 2012

AS THE FORT BRAGG POLICE served a search warrant Wednesday in the 300 block of North Harrison Street, they found an entire apartment creatively wired to serve an indoor marijuana grow. All of the rooms…

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