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Budget Cuts For Thee, Comfy Business As Usual For Me

The Supervisors say the County faces a $2 million deficit this fiscal year even after some preliminary budget cuts. The county's leadership spent several desultory hours on Tuesday wondering what to do about it. Do…

Communication Outage on Coast Was Useful Practice

On Tuesday, May 10th, at approximately 10:40 in the morning, a private construction crew inadvertently drilled into a major communication cable in Fort Bragg.  As a result, communication services were lost throughout all of Fort…

Not a Team Player

In January the dysfunction within the Mendocino Coast Health Care District (MCHCD) Board of Directors caused the head of their bookkeeping service to admonish them to not involve the bookkeeper's employees in the board's disagreements.…

AV Thanks Doctor Apfel

If on a dark and stormy night Dr. Mark Apfel ever wondered if anybody really appreciated him the question has now been resoundingly put to rest. On Saturday On May 7th around 2:00 a whole…

Off the Record (May 11, 2022)

The David V. Neily cold case. Lisa Neily writes:  My father’s remains were found off Branscomb Road, May 7, 2020. They were identified in Oct 2021. Which already put us behind to file a wrongful…

Mendo’s Failed Pot Program Gets Worse

THE MENDOCINO CANNABIS ALLIANCE (MCA), which represents the dwindling number of quasi-legal pot cultivators in the County, has submitted the following under Public Expression for the Supervisors meeting on Tuesday. We have annotated it (itals)…

Wildflower Show 2022

If there is one thing that stands out when looking at a large collection of wildflower specimens it is their delicacy. Wildflowers are small, mostly tiny. They are exquisite but they are very economically put…

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