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Mendocino County Today: March 10, 2012

FRIDAY'S Santa Rosa Press Democrat reported that former Sonoma County Fifth District Supervisor Ernie Carpenter will run for his old job. Carpenter says he’s concerned…

Mendocino County Today: March 9, 2012

THE AVA RECENTLY requested that the DA's office give us access to the files on the Fort Bragg Fires of 1987. DA spokesman Mike Geniella…

Mendocino County Today: March 8, 2012

FORT BRAGG'S CV Starr Aquatic Center has been saved. The lavish $24 million swimming pool and exercise facility was established out of a bequest by…

Sunspots & Republicans

Suddenly the right has gone truly crazy. It must be sunspots. We’re three years into sunspot cycle number 24 and it crests in activity with…

A Meth Maker’s Tale

I'd like to explain to you how I began to cook methamphetamine at the young and very impressionable age of 17. It was all unintentional, you see, and from the very beginning it's not what I set myself up to do.

Letters To The Editor

DIM BULBS Justice is being served, slowly but surely. As some may recall, my truck was broken into last June at Lake Mendocino under cover…

The Voices & Views Of One Side

NPR National Public Radio. National Pay or Play Radio. Spring Pledge Drive, 2012. Hosts beg and cajole on air hour after hour, day after day…

Signs Of Spring

“I am for an art that is political-erotical-mystical, that does something other than sit on its ass in a museum.” — Claes Oldenburg Harbor seals…

Valley People

PASTOR DICK COOLIDGE of Comptche has died. He was 95. The Coolidges established the soon thriving Chapel of the Redwoods in Comptche in 1979 where…

Off The Record

VERN PIVER died Monday in San Francisco at the UC Hospital. He was 78. I'll have a full obituary in next week's paper. A native…

Mendocino County Today: March 7, 2012

VERN PIVER died Monday in San Francisco at the UC Hospital. He was 78. I'll have a full obituary in next week's paper. A native…

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