A LOW INTENSITY war is underway between Mendo law enforcement and Meredith Ford, the County's Auditor/Controller over Prop.172, a sales tax measure from the 1990s designed to help fund “public safety.” The money is earmarked…
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839 MILES OF WICK May 19, 2013 To: Jane M. Hicks, Chief, Regulatory Division, San Francisco District, US Army Corps of Engineers, 1455 Market Street, San Francisco, CA 94103-1398 Re: Request for Reevaluation of the…
I never got around to writing my intended tribute to the great American bassist Ron Carter last year at this time on the occasion of his 75th birthday. Carter entered the jazz canon 50 years…
A YOUTHFUL MALE VOICE on our Tuesday afternoon hotline told us that Darryl Cherney would be on KZYX at 3pm. My reaction to certain names, Cherney's among them, is a brief moment of groaning despair…
During the final weekend of April three abalone divers drowned in accidents off the Sonoma and Mendocino coasts. One of these accidents killed 66-year-old Cedric Collett. Cedric Collett was a retired firefighter from Pacifica, a…
THE MENDOCINO Major Crimes Task Force, led by the legendary Peter Hoyle, was busy in Point Arena this week. Seems that someone with the initials P.R., living on Schooner Gulch Road South of Point Arena,…
WE'VE BEEN HOUNDING Deputy Squires to submit to a debrief in the form of an interview, but the Deputy says No. We had a title all ready to go: “A Great Cop Hangs Up His…
I can't bear to hold this in any longer! The Mendocino K-8 school is not just heartless but also vindictive! My child was bullied so badly for 3 years (3rd through 5th grade) that we…
Last October, toward the end of the month, I made one of several trips to Ukiah from Clearlake, where I was living at the time. Several of the local Ukiah businesses had Halloween window displays,…