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Mendocino County Today: May 26, 2012

AFTER 13 years as a counselor at Boonville High School, Jerry Cox has announced his formal retirement. “When you no longer can steal 2nd base, it's time to hang up your cleats,” he says. (And…

Mendocino County Today: May 25, 2012

JUAN LERMA, 46, of Fort Bragg, has been identified as the man killed by a falling limb early Monday morning off the old Masonite Road near Navarro. An experienced faller with Shuster Logging, Lerma was…

Mendocino County Today: May 24, 2010

QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The whole world is hanging by its fingernails, refusing to be dragged into the future. That future is all about contraction. We could navigate our way into it but we don't…

Letters To The Editor

NO SUPERBINKIES Hi Bruce Well I am overjoyed that Japan is going off the absurd nuclear power track. Nuclear is the great hope, banking the planet's future on a toxic power source that really is…

Austerity

“When we deeply understand that actions bring results, it can motivate us to take active responsibility for our actions and our lives.” — Joseph Goldstein Planting time: kale, lettuce, carrots, peas, beets, broccoli. Hearty potato…

River Views

Recent River Views recounted the feud between the Frost and Coates families of Little Lake, the 1867 gunfight that killed Elisha Frost and five Coates men, and the subsequent violence of Frost family members. Mart…

The Luck Of The Iris

I was on the scary side of 65 when I started noticing newsprint a bit blurry, as if my lens was smudged. So I’d clean my glasses, thinking these plastic lenses are nice and light,…

Valley People

A LOGGER was killed early Monday morning at the Navarro end of the Masonite Road. No details of the accident have been released, but we have learned he was employed by Shuster Logging, he 50…

Mendocino County Today: May 23, 2012

PIXIE REPORT. A.Z. writes from Miranda: “Hi, well I knew she would make it to Garberville someday,...she was in front of Shopsmart supermarket bumming money,with a big white dog,and a friend.Their truck is broke down…

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