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Racist Vandalism on Highway 128

Saoirse Byrne was on her way home to Boonville about 9 p.m. Saturday, when she saw a horrifying message just after entering Mendocino County on Highway 128. The flashing road sign, which usually says “Expect…

The Gjerde Defense

At Tuesday’s Supervisors meeting, the Board engaged in a lengthy un-agendized discussion of the recent State Controller’s office report which blamed the Supervisors for much of the County’s financial delays and difficulties. The unagendized discussion…

Gilded Age Organ Riches From Long A.G.O. and Last Week

From last Sunday evening through yesterday afternoon, some 2,000 organists have been shuttling around the San Francisco Bay Area for a program of lectures, workshops, and concerts. This installment of the bi-annual convention of the…

Murder in Boonville [2003]

They'd known each other all the way back to their home country of Mexico, and had crossed the border together a decade before. In the Anderson Valley they'd worked together in the vineyards and the…

Trump Rushed Off Stage After Shots Fired

The shooter is a twenty-year-old from Pennsylvania. THOMAS MATTHEW CROOKS ID’D AS GUNMAN WHO SHOT TRUMP DURING PA. RALLY by Joe Marino & Katherine Donlevy The gunman who attempted to assassinate former President Donald Trump…

Willits Frontier Days 2024: ‘Cowboys & Cadillacs’

Willits celebrated its 98th Frontier Days June 28- July 6. Home of the longest running continuous rodeo in California beginning in 1927. They may have a bone to pick with Salinas whose rodeo began in…

County Finances & Laytonville Grocery Store

Happy Independence Day! I think we're still independent, thanks to a gang of big brain misfits who all had the King's death warrants on their heads. We can hang together or hang separately, as B.…

A Closer Look At The State Controller’s Report

A postscript is in order for Mike Geniella’s interesting summary of the State Controller’s July 1 report and findings, basically blaming the Supervisors for the County’s financial difficulties. Let’s focus on a few specific remarks…

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