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Half Hour Adventures Of The Disappearing Boy

Here's what I've learned about doing time: you can't do years. Well, in retrospect you can, easily — that is, after you've done 'em. They're a snap. Looking back they don't seem a huge deal.…

My Big Trip, Part Two

Staying with friends was the only way I could afford to make my trip to New York in 1976 last more than a week or so, and I wanted to stay in or near Manhattan for at least three weeks. When I left for New York, I thought I had two places to stay, one in Newark, New Jersey with Dan and Janka, and one on West 83rd Street in Manhattan with Scott and Richard, but when Janka’s mother learned I was planning to stay in the area for several weeks, she invited me to use the guest room in her apartment on West 94th Street, three blocks from Central Park.

Off The Record

WILLITS CROOKS maybe ought to stay in Willits. Ferndale police officers arrested two men from Willits early Sunday morning inside a bank in Ferndale. Sylvester Loren Vansickle, 56, and Larry Daniel Rodriguez, 39, were trying…

Valley People

THE COUNTY'S NUMBERS regarding the true state of finances at the Boonville Fairgrounds are misleading, not intentionally misleading, but misleading. The Fair is not sitting on $1.5 mil in reserves. Calculated another way, the money…

Mendocino County Today: January 30, 2013

OF COURSE you know that four of Mendocino County's newspapers are owned by an outside media chain. The interchangeable Fort Bragg Advocate and Mendocino Beacon; the Ukiah Daily Journal and the Willits News are the…

Mendocino County Today: January 29, 2013

WILLITS CROOKS maybe ought to stay in Willits. Ferndale police officers arrested two men from Willits early Sunday morning inside a bank in Ferndale. Sylvester Loren Vansickle, 56, and Larry Daniel Rodriguez, 39, were trying…

Mendocino County Today: January 28, 2013

ANONYMOUS says it hijacked the website of the US Sentencing Commission early Saturday morning to retaliate for the suicide death of Aaron Swartz, the internet activist facing decades in prison for… “illegally” downloading millions of…

Mendocino County Today: January 27, 2013

THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA'S Environmental Protection Agency is poised to list the compound, bisphenol A, a common component of plastics, as harmful to fetuses and infants. Manufacturers would have to include warning labels on products…

Mendocino County Today: January 26, 2013

MONICA FUCHS WROTE on Thursday: “We have known for some time that Mental Health services in Mendocino County are understaffed, underfunded and poorly managed. But since Monday night the building on 1120 South Dora Street…

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