WILLITS POISED TO DECLARE DROUGHT EMERGENCY by Linda Williams The city has about 100 days of water in its reservoir and January is projected to be drier than normal. The Willits City Council is expected…
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SUPERVISORS DECLARE DROUGHT EMERGENCY by Tiffany Revelle The Mendocino County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday voted unanimously to declare a local emergency “and imminent threat of disaster” from drought conditions, and appointed two of its…
Oaky Joe here. I am happy to report that I have not had any legal stuff going on since I moved my family out of Mendocino County. I am fine and my wife and children are also fine.
RECOMMENDED READING: Four Days in November: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy by Vincent Bugliosi. By far the clearest and most convincing book on the subject I've ever read. Bugliosi, best known as prosecutor…
THE US NATIONAL WEATHER Service has posted a photo of an empty Lake Mendocino. A drought of the 1975-76 magnitude is upon us. TUESDAY, the Supervisors, led by Carre Brown and John Pinches, declared a…
THE NEW YEAR used to be celebrated in Boonville with gunfire and low intensity explosions commencing, it always seemed, at nightfall. No more. We're a pretty tame bunch anymore. The anarchic sectors of The Valley's…
SOHUM RESIDENT ACCUSED OF SHOCKING EUREKA MURDER by Daniel Mintz A Southern Humboldt man has been charged in the New Year’s Day murder of the pastor of one of Eureka’s most iconic churches. Police believe…
IN THE WETTEST of times, Fort Bragg's ingenious water system is a struggle. We asked 4th District supervisor Dan Gjerde how it was holding up during the drought: “We're clearly going through another drought year.…
SACRAMENTO BEE COLUMNIST Dan Walters wrote Saturday about a phenomenon that we’ve covered at length in the AVA as it applies to the Northcoast: “An insidious political syndrome popped up in California during the 1990s…