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EBT Benefits in Fort Bragg: Service Interrupted

On Sunday, August 3, 2014, an incident occurred on the Comptche Road resulting in the need to replace up to 12,000 feet of fiber optic cable. This cable is the primary source of telephonic transfer information for much of the coastal community in Mendocino County.

Twice as Good & The John Mattern Band

This Sunday, August 10th in Todd Grove Park at 6:00pm Fowler Auto & Truck Center, The City of Ukiah, KWNE-FM and MAX 93.5 are proud…

Emergency Evacuation Site

There will be a community meeting on Monday, August 4 at 3 p.m. at Harwood Hall to provide information about Harwood Hall being the designated…

We Want It All

Last week, a group of Mendo grape growers led by a Redwood Valley grape grower and PhD psychotherapist named Dr. Rudolph Light, announced that they would appeal the recent state appellate court's overturn of Mendo Judge Ann Moorman’s hometown ruling that the Water Board couldn't require local grape growers to devise their own plans to minimize fish strandings. Mass fingerling death has occurred when the grape people all turn on their pumps at once.

Back To Basics

The Fifth Annual Not-So-Simple Living Fair at the Boonville Fairgrounds saw an avid throng of attendees. The event is hugely popular and crucial to a…

Welcome Home, Sgt. Berry

Steven Berry is a Marine. He barely survived heavy fighting in both Iraq and Afghanistan, suffering such horrific injuries in Afghanistan that he was medically…

Bird’s Eye View (July 30, 2014)

What a mess! Outside the bucolic bubble that is Boonville and not far beyond, the world seems to be almost spinning out of control. We have increasingly tragic events, some of which are being considered as war crimes, in regions such as the Ukraine, the Gaza Strip, Libya, and others; the spreading Ebola epidemic in West Africa, the crashing/shooting down of civilian airplanes; the continuing despicable acts by Boko Haram in Nigeria; thousands of children being held at the Mexican/US border after fleeing their drug-cartel dominated countries; and now here in California we are starting to see some large and out-of-control wildfires amidst terrible drought conditions.

Off the Record (July 30, 2014)

THE SAD SAGA of the Berry family, though extreme, seems to be the tip of a much larger problem, specifically the suspiciously large number of…

Sustainable Ag 116

Mendocino College is offering a new class on sustainable farming. Agriculture 116 (Fall 2014): Sustainable Agricultural Systems with Rain Tenaqiya, permaculture designer and author of…

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