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Letters To The Editor

WHERE’S THE DEMO? Letter to the editor Where is the Democracy? is the title of this letter. Reading through Will Parish's accounts of the struggle to save Little Lake Valley wetlands from Caltrans’ insane plan…

Bongo Bill

Editor: My name is William Joseph Newport CDCR#K14307, aka “Bongo Bill.” This letter has been a long time coming. I was a homeless man who had a more or less meager form of existence in…

Off The Record

IS PATRICIA DARLAND making a run for Fifth District Supervisor? Ms. Darland, a former nurse, has been on the Coast Hospital Board since the early 2000s. According to a note Ms. Darland posted in the…

Valley People

BIG EXCITEMENT last Thursday evening in Hungry Hollow a little after 7 when deputies were summoned to sort out “a neighbor dispute.” Brandon Johnson, a neighbor complained, had shot another neighbor's dog the previous day,…

Mendocino County Today: September 19, 2013

THAT DISPUTE between County Auditor-Controller Meredith Ford and DA David Eyster over where varying portions of asset forfeiture money should go, is complicated by Ms. Ford's poor health. She has been battling cancer, meaning lots…

Mendocino County Today: September 18, 2013

FRED GARDNER WRITES: Remembering Saul Landau — Saul could tell a joke and make you laugh. Saul could tell a joke and make you laugh. This is the last one I heard him tell: There's…

River Views

A year ago this week I wrote about a then obscure independently produced documentary called Searching for Sugar Man, about a Detroit singer/songwriter who disappeared into the dustbin of the American corporate music business in…

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