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Looking Back, Part 1

I never attended Kindergarten. I’ve had the audacity, over the years and decades, to claim that fact as the underlying reason for every life failure (or life lesson gone awry) that I’ve ever experienced since…

Mendocino County Today: October 17, 2012

A FEDERAL TASK FORCE raided the Potter Valley family property of Mendocino County Under-Sheriff/Captain Randy Johnson last Thursday (October 11th). The raid team included DEA, FBI and IRS agents who are said to have confiscated…

Mendocino County Today: October 16, 2012

A FEDERAL TASK FORCE raided the Potter Valley family property of Mendocino County Under-Sheriff Randy Johnson last Thursday (October 11th). The raid team included DEA, FBI and IRS agents who are said to have confiscated…

Mendocino County Today: October 14, 2012

GIVE US MORE or we'll blow up your neighborhood: PG&E wants customers to pay more than half the cost of its roughly $2.2 billion pipeline upgrades, some 84% of costs of its multi-year effort to…

Mendocino County Today: October 13, 2012

LINDA THOMPSON RACKS UP ANOTHER VIC. OFF THE RECORD, Sept 14, 2011 On Monday, September 5th, people heard cries for help coming from a home on Babcock Lane, Fort Bragg, the last mortal sounds of…

Mendocino County Today: October 12, 2012

COURT TO RULE on evidence of possible motive in Norbury murder trial. — Evidence bearing on murder suspect Billy Norbury's relationship with his estranged wife and their divorce will show his motive for allegedly killing…

Letters To The Editor

SHY OF THE TRUTH Dear Editor, I can't remember when the Manchester Union Elementary School District has had an election but lo and behold since I was asked to be a board member by not…

Mendocino County Today: October 11, 2012

NORBURY MURDER TRIAL BEGINS with opening remarks. Tearful girlfriend testifies. In his opening statement Tuesday in the murder trial of Billy Norbury, Mendocino County District Attorney David Eyster described for the jury the “nightmare” scenario…

Mendocino County Today: October 10, 2012

IT TOOK the better part of three days but a jury is seated for the Billy Norbury murder trial. Opening statements began Tuesday morning. Norbury, 34, faces a murder charge with a special allegation that…

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