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Mendocino County Today: March 27, 2013

BIG ORANGE ON THE RAMPAGE by Will Parrish Since Thursday, CalTrans' destruction along the southern portion of the proposed Willits Bypass route has been unrelenting. The roughly 1.5-mile long and 200 foot wide swath where…

Mendocino County Today: March 26, 2013

MONDAY AT THE WILLITS BYPASS by Jennifer Poole, Willits Weekly www.facebook.com/WillitsWeekly Caltrans contractors continued work along the bypass route over the weekend in Willits, felling trees and clearing brush in multiple locations. All three tree-sitters…

Mendocino County Today: March 25, 2013

THE 12-YEAR OLD GIRL who went missing Thursday morning was safely found at a relative's home in Santa Rosa on Sunday. Jenica Fredrick was reported missing to the Lake County Sheriff's Office (LCSO) in the…

Mendocino County Today: March 24, 2013

BYPASS PROTEST UPDATE by Jennifer Poole, Willits Weekly www.facebook.com/WillitsWeekly Initially, seven protesters who didn’t leave were arrested Thursday morning, and later that afternoon. Warbler is still sitting high in the Ponderosa pine tree off Highway…

Mendocino County Today: March 23, 2012

DAN GJERDE, newly elected 4th District supervisor, provided crisp, to-the-point answers to several questions we put to him this week: AVA: Are you commuting to Ukiah from your home in Fort Bragg? GJERDE: I sometimes spend…

Mendocino County Today: March 22, 2013

WILLITS WEEKLY'S CAT LEE reporting from the CHP press conference Thursday regarding the Willits Bypass and related protest(s): Eight arrests, no violence, no resistance, no destruction of equipment or damage to land. Protesters transported to…

Cool Hand Jet All The Way

It was in early adolescence that I first began to feel as if I were disappearing — actually discorporating. At times I felt insubstantial, airy. I thought I could feel wind blowing through me. My…

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