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Mendocino County Today: June 17, 2013

A BIG ENVIRONMENTAL GROUP is rumored to have offered $300k to the Skunk Line to repair and restore the collapsed tunnel in return for a conservation easement on the railroad right of way (or the…

Mendocino County Today: June 16, 2013

AMERICA BEING A NEW COUNTRY, and now a fragged people who don't know their neighbors let alone honor anything resembling the community we once knew, ancient Selkirk is a reminder, to this American, of how…

Mendocino County Today: June 15, 2013

LAST WEEK the Santa Rosa Press Democrat ran a story titled, “Winegrowers facing labor hurdles as harvest season approaches.” The story began “Grape growers and farmers throughout the state are facing a range of challenges…

Mendocino County Today: June 14, 2013

SO THIS IS CIVILIZATION. Spent a day in Edinburgh, concluding that if Americans were still teachable we could learn how to manage cities from the Scots. For example, the center of San Francisco — and…

Letters To The Editor

GRANDFATHERING SLUDGE Editor, Mendo County Supervisors under cover of darkness tried to grandfather sewage sludge composting. RE: June 10 Agenda timed items, and specific. Item 5(d) "...Waste Composting..." Concerns, Item timing and Agenda summary inaccuracies…

Off The Record

HAMBURG CLAIMS DAMAGES FROM THE COUNTY Dan Hamburg's Claim Against Mendocino County [Attorney Barry Vogel's Letterhead] May 28, 2013 To: Thomas Parker, Mendocino County Counsel Re: Claim Against Mendocino County. Failure to issue a death…

Valley People

RAUL MALFAVON, 21, of Ray's Road, Philo, was found dead Thursday morning about 6. Malfavon, an unmarried single man who reportedly lived with his sister, is presumed to have hanged himself. MICHELLE HUTCHINS, current Superintendent…

Mendocino County Today: June 13, 2013

"POSSIBLY MULTIPLE TIMES"? Did the camo-Mex shoot at the deputy or didn't he? Apparently, and more than once, too. SHERIFF’S PRESS RELEASE: On June 11, 2013 at about 8:36am Special Agents from the Mendocino Major…

River Views

Fifty-five years ago the Giants moved from New York to San Francisco. I was four years old and occasionally hid in our large clothes hamper to pray for Willie Mays to hit a home run.…

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