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$1.50

“Once, during prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.” — W.C. Fields This just in: Ben Affleck, the movie star, is going to try to survive for five…

Rogue Wave

“… for my mind misgives Some consequence yet hanging in the stars Shall bitterly begin his fearful date With this night’s revels… But He, that hath the steerage of my course, Direct my Sail!…” —…

Off The Record

THE HAMBURG-ROBERTS 2010 race for Fifth District Supervisor was, for laid-back Mendocino County, intense and bitter while it was underway, and unlikely to become less bitter with the news that the California Fair Political Practices Commission has fined…

Valley People

BILL HARPER brings us the terrible news that Henry Hill died last Wednesday at his Navarro home. The story of Henry's remarkable life appears in next week's paper. MUSSELS gathered on the Mendocino Coast are…

Mendocino County Today: May 1, 2013

FROM the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office: "Seeking the public’s help in locating a missing person. On 04-25-2013 a Humboldt County Sheriff’s Deputy spoke on the telephone with the father of Garret Rodriguez who reported him…

A Theft Near Albion; Reward Offered

On Thursday, April 25, between 5:00 and 6:00 p.m., while visiting the Mendocino Land Trust Navarro Point property on Hwy. 1 about 1.5 miles south of Albion before visiting friends in the Anderson Valley, my Toyota Tacoma…

Mendocino County Today: April 30, 2013

THERE WERE THREE AB DIVING DEATHS over the weekend, one off MacKerricher north of Fort Bragg identified as that of Henry Choy, 50, of San Bruno. Kenneth Liu, 36, of San Francisco was caught in…

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