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Off The Record

WE’VE COMPLAINED for years that California River Watch, vaguely based in Occidental (Sonoma County), is operated as a  shakedown racket by a man named Jack Silver. Silver rifles the reports filed by municipalities with the…

Valley People

A CLOSER LOOK at the thuggish dismissal of Kathy Corral reveals that the overall survival of the Anderson Valley Health Center might be more precarious than many of us thought. The dental clinic has been…

Mendocino County Today: August 13, 2013

NORM FLUHER of Mendocino's venerable Blair House used to sit on the board of the Mendocino County Lodging Association until he was purged from that august body for asking the un-askable. Mr. Fluher wanted to…

Mendocino County Today: August 12, 2013

THE UKIAH VALLEY Medical Center is a for-profit medical complex owned and operated by the tax-exempt 7th Adventist Church. The Center announced last week that it has eliminated six jobs because, it says, it expects…

Mendocino County Today: August 11, 2013

WE’VE COMPLAINED for years that California River Watch, in Occidental, is operated as a non-profit shakedown racket by a man named Jack Silver. Silver rifles the reports filed with the North Coast Regional Water Quality…

Mendocino County Today: August 10, 2013

LIKE MANY LOCALS, I’ve enjoyed the Haul Road north of Fort Bragg for years, an amenity we enjoy courtesy of the padrones of yesterday’s timber industry, and an amenity enjoyed by few other towns between…

Mendocino County Today: August 9, 2013

A 66-YEAR-OLD MAN, not yet identified, died in a single-vehicle crash near Laytonville on Monday afternoon about 3. The deceased, driving alone in a 2003 Ford SUV, unaccountably ran off the east edge of 101,…

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