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Valley People

ARE YOUR HATCHES BATTENED? Storms beginning now will drench us so thoroughly for the next five or six days we're assuming 128 will be closed…

Mendocino County Today: November 27, 2012

MENDOCINO COUNTY PRELIMINARY ELECTION RESULTS for federal and state offices. (Name, Party, vote total, percentage) President: Jill Stein Grn 471 2.61% Thomas Hoefling AI 83…

An Englishman Rides To Boonville

October, 2008 — We’re still riding south on Highway 101. We haven’t traveled far enough south to make any climatic difference, but the mist of…

Mendocino County Today: November 26, 2012

A HUSBAND AND WIFE are dead, and their 16-year-old son is still missing, after all three were swept out to sea Saturday afternoon in a…

Mendocino County Today: November 25, 2012

I THINK I HAVE AN IDEA how to help with Fort Bragg's request “for the public's help in identifying potential illegal or unsafe marijuana-growing operations…

Mendocino County Today: November 24, 2012

TODAY'S FACTOID: Walmart employees receive $2.66 billion in government help every year, or about $420,000 per store. TRA, a Lost Coast Outpost commenter, on the…

Mendocino County Today: November 23, 2012

DEPARTMENT OF UNINTENTIONAL HILARITY. Or your pathos files, depending. Dipping into the depleted coffers of bed tax revenues, the City of Ukiah paid a Walnut…

Letters To The Editor

SAVE TEN-MILE COURT Dear Editor: I would like to inform ALL the Mendocino Coast citizens to the fact, that a few people have set in…

Mendocino County Today: November 22, 2012

THE PRESS DEMOCRAT is like reading the daily diaries of amnesiacs. Chris Smith's column on the Bari "mystery" in Wednesday’s paper is typical. http://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/20121121/NEWS/121129898 It's…

River Views

Autumn turns toward winter and Thanksgiving is upon us. At this time of year the old timers of this area, the Pomo, gathered acorns, storing…

Road Notes: North For The Winter Redux

Early morning, a donut shop in Ukiah. I half-stumble from my room at Motel 6, hoping a large coffee will set my internal latitude and…

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