For the past couple of months this column has been following a young man from the Mendocino Coast named William and his encounters with Mendocino County’s mental health system. William suffers from schizoaffective disorder and…
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MENTAL HEALTH ACTIVISTS are appalled that the County's recent privatization of mental health services, always problematical in Mendocino County, seems to have eliminated mental health services in Fort Bragg. The Ortner Management Group, based in…
A KZYX MANIFESTO by Doug McKenty My name is Doug McKenty and I have been volunteering at KZYX for the last seven years. I began as an engineer for my Tai Chi teacher on a…
THE TOUGHEST 72-year-old in NorCal, Gene Penaflor of San Francisco, has survived after being lost for 18 days between Hull Mountain and Lake Pillsbury in the Mendocino National Forest. Penaflor was found by hunters Saturday…
72-YEAR-OLD GENE PENAFLOR was reported missing by his family on the 24th of September when he failed to reappear after a hunting expedition in the Mendocino National Forest. Penaflor was last seen a short distance…
IT'S HOME INVASION SEASON. 37-year-old Keo Oudone Vannarath was shot to death early Thursday morning west of Red Bluff (across the mountains from Covelo) when three pot thieves appeared at the medical grow Vannarath was…
WES, DRUNK OR SOBER! “647” is cop code for drunk in public, and from his photo Wes looks like he's had a few. Which is fine with us. He looks better drunk, more human, like…