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Why The Cops Won’t Share

Every few years, there’s a flurry of interest in Mendo’s obvious misallocation of Proposition 172 funds. Then everything returns to the status quo. It goes…

Bird’s Eye View (Oct 21, 2015)

Several Three-Dot regulars remarked on the strong aroma of marijuana emanating from a significant number of young folks in the Valley in recent weeks, many of whom have never been seen around here before. It is a mystery.

Off the Record (Oct 21, 2015)

THE GUN NUT fantasy is that idiot bad guys will holler “Here we come!” and lurch, zombie-like into the front yard so that they can…

KZYX Rotations

On a pleasant late summer Labor Day evening, the KZYX Board of Directors met at the Anderson Valley Grange. All members were present with the…

Craft Exhibition in Mendocino

In celebration of October’s American Craft Week, AIM (Artists in Mendocino) and MCF (Mendocino Coast FurnitureMakers) have joined together to present a diverse exhibition of contemporary craft.…

Talen Barton Sentenced To 71 Years To Life

Nineteen-year-old old Talen C. Barton was sentenced Tuesday to 71 years to life in prison for the Laytonville stabbing murders of Coleman Palmieri and his…

Why Was the AT&T Outage So Bad?

It’s been more than a month since vandals severed AT&T’s fiber optic line in a remote area south of Ukiah, sending untold tens of thousands…

Bird’s Eye View (Oct 14, 2015)

A Three-Dot regular reminds me that two of the current five members of the AV School Board are leaving when their terms end in less than a month. Martha “Marti” Bradford, who, after so many years service, to paraphrase an old Three-Dot joke, apparently will not be carried out of the boardroom in a box after all, and Patti Wilson. Richard “Dick” Browning’s term is also up, but I am reliably informed he plans to return and nobody has applied to oppose the sprightly 80-year old’s tenure at this point.

Off the Record (Oct 14, 2015)

A WOMAN CALLED Monday morning with a sad tale of being ripped off by a particularly slimy attorney called Dan Russo, and was only in…

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