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Mendocino County Today: February 4, 2012

AS PART of the Fort Bragg Police Department’s all-out effort to roll back a gang foothold in the seaside Mendocino County town of 7,000, Alejandro Grijalba, 20, has been sentenced to a year in the…

Mendocino County Today: February 3, 2012

WITH AT LEAST another week of summer-like weather predicted for this very dry Northcoast winter, the Sonoma County Water Agency has formally declared the Russian River as “dry.” Prior to Wednesday the overdrawn and perennially…

Mendocino County Today: February 2, 2012

THE MENDOCINO Coast Recreation and Parks District Board has voted to close the CV Starr Aquatic Center pending a special election to fund it. The spiffy indoor pool and exercise facility opened in 2009. “The…

Valley People

THE ODDLY premature communiqué a few paragraphs below was e-mailed to us Tuesday as a press release, and sent home the same day in bilingual form with elementary school children. Edu-prose ranging from fuzzy to…

Letters To The Editor

KEEP THE CODE Editor, Something Wicked This Way Comes is, of course, the famous line from the Shakespearean play Macbeth, which forewarns of an impending ominous, dangerous and traitorous entity. Fast-forward from the seventeenth century,…

What’s Next For The 49ers?

Since the NFC Championship football game a couple of weekends ago when the New York Giants defeated the San Francisco 49ers, I have read several sports articles in which the 49er loss was pinned on…

Practice(ing)

Marcia and I were walking on Big River Beach yesterday, the wet sand firm underfoot—Big River swollen and muddy from the recent deluge, a light rain falling.

Angels We Have Heard While High

One of the more depressing experiences related to drug use is being compelled to listen to somebody trying to convey some "cosmic" revelation they had while under the influence. But there are rare exceptions. E.g.:…

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