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Steam Engines, Lumber Mills & Magnetic Wig-Wags

A photo exhibit by Charles Givens of seven historical railroad logging operations, along with text panels and accompanying memorabilia, is now on display at the Mendocino County Museum in Willits. It offers a rich glimpse…

Valley People

LONG TIME Valley resident Dee Thurman has passed away in Ukiah where she'd been taken from her Boonville home in Airport Estates for emergency care. Well into her 80's, Dee Thurman was a pioneer female…

Off The Record

This Week: The Big Ponz & Zero-Tax Filers; Closing Fort Bragg's spiffy pool; Rich lady loses paintings, sues Elk Volunteer Fire Department; and much more

Mendocino County Today: February 8, 2012

SMOKE AND FLAMES from Elk. Remember that fire last summer when the rich lady's home burned down south of Elk and priceless painting were destroyed? Now, it turns out, that the Elk Volunteer Fire Department,…

Mendocino County Today: February 7, 2012

ANNE MOLGAARD, director of the Ukiah-based non-profit First Five, on why the Mendocino County supervisors should not reduce their pay: “I wanted to address the proposed decrease of supervisors salaries. I must say I'm pretty…

Mendocino County Today: February 6, 2012

THE HOPI Indians would appreciate Mendocino County's cliff-dwelling vineyards, especially the one near Navarro called Rhys Vineyards, which is planted on the steepest hillside we're aware of where a vineyard has been attempted. Mendocino County…

Mendocino County Today: February 5, 2012

IN OTHER exciting highway news, a naked man, hurling himself into the paths of frantically braking traffic, was finally subdued near the Mendo-Sonoma line Wednesday evening by a half dozen cops. Naked Man was struck…

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…

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