BARGAIN SAFETY TRAINING Editor- The Anderson Valley Ambulance and Mendocino County Office of Education are sponsoring a 16 week training leading to certification as an Emergency Medical Technician (EMT). The course provides knowledge and skills…
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WE'VE ENJOYED the recent presence of a high school kid, Ms. Mayte Guerrero, as an “intern.” The Anderson Valley Education Foundation paid Ms. Guerrero to endure a couple of hours a day in the cluttered…
After two weeks spent exploring the northlands I think the funniest thing I saw was a bumper sticker that said “I drove the Alaska Marine Highway!” Why funny? The Alaska Marine Highway is a ferry…
My brother, a software systems analyst and project manager, sent me the following quote from the book Gurus, Hired Guns, and Warm Bodies by Stephen Barley and Gideon Kunda that my brother says sums up…
TRAGIC WEEKEND FOR HUMCO LOGGERS, as reported by the Eureka Times-Standard and the Lost Coast Outpost: 66-year-old Thomas Alan Rea died on Friday after being hit by a log on his property in Garberville while…
THERE'S SOMETHING of a pistol-packing tradition among Mendocino County lawyers. Damon Gardner is only the most recent. The assistant Mendo DA got into a midnight fight in Sacramento last weekend during which, as Damon Gardner…
FROM SATURDAY’S SACRAMENTO BEE, by Phillip Reese and Bill Lindelof: “A Mendocino County deputy district attorney shot and wounded another man on a downtown Sacramento street following an argument early Thursday morning, according to police.…
A WEEK OF TOTAL SCUMBAGGERY for Mendocino County included three dead infant cases, the most recent involving a guy who simply dropped his dead baby in the Ukiah emergency room and took off, last seen…
WE ARE SADDENED to learn of the death of Susan Shields, long-time editor and publisher of the Laytonville-based Mendocino County Observer. Mrs. Shields died on Monday the 14th of October of heart failure. ============================= JUST…