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‘America’s Last Newspaper’

I decided to enroll in the journalism program at my alma mater, the University of California Santa Cruz, during the run-up to the invasion and occupation of Iraq, circa late 2002 and early 2003. UCSC…

Looking For James Dean

If you go, take a full day trip to go round trip. September is the best time to go. That's a qualified best time because it's the James Dean Memorial Junction — where State 46…

Off The Record

COUNTY COUNSEL Nadel announced late Monday that the County employees bumblingly represented by SEIU have voted in favor of the proposed Tentative Agreement as have the Supervisors: A 10% permanent general wage reduction effective the…

Mendocino County Today: January 25, 2012

COUNTY COUNSEL Nadel announced late Monday that the County employees bumblingly represented by SEIU have voted in favor of the proposed Tentative Agreement as have the Supervisors: • A 10% permanent general wage reduction effective the…

Mendocino County Today: January 24, 2012

TOM KURISKY, 63, of Westport has been identified as the man killed last week in the 9:30am accident near Murphy's Pond on Highway 20 about ten miles east of Fort Bragg. Kurisky had drifted into…

Mendocino County Today: January 23, 2012

RUSSIAN RIVER grape growers are supposed to have their water management plans approved by February 4, according to the state Water Resource Control Board’s new frost protection rules enacted late last year. Mendo’s Russian River…

Mendocino County Today: January 22, 2012

LEONARD CIRINO is suffering from cancer. The well-known poet lived for years in Albion before moving to Springfield, Oregon a few years ago to care for his elderly mother. Leonard’s medical condition can be monitored here.…

Mendocino County Today: January 21, 2012

FROM LINDA WILLIAMS of the Willits News: “Nearly 53% of all Mendocino County mothers reported using tobacco, marijuana or alcohol before knowing they were pregnant compared to the state average of 24%. The percentage Mendocino…

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