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Palace Hotel Efforts Cited By National Preservation Magazine

The Palace Hotel, the iconic downtown Ukiah landmark focus of new clean up and stabilization efforts, is one of five projects featured in the Spring edition of ‘Preservation,’ the quarterly magazine of the National Trust…

Budget Bungling 3.0

The Supervisors have scheduled another budget discussion for next Tuesday. From the looks of the “presentation” the CEO and her staff have prepared, the dismal (both financially and managerially) picture hasn’t changed much. CEO Antle…

Construction Begins On $144 Million Courthouse

A $144 million new Mendocino County Courthouse in Ukiah is rising alongside railroad tracks crossing Perkins Street, the main corridor that links the commercial core of Ukiah to the Highway 101 freeway. A formal dedication…

The Supervisors’ Latest Betrayal: The Cline Contortion

When the Board discussed the marijuana tax revenue distribution process at their meeting in Willits on April 8th, there was some half-hearted interest in finally, nine years after the fact, allocating those revenues as the…

Convenient Amnesia

Summary: Supervisors Keep Pot Tax Money Promised To Taxpayer-Approved Purposes for Themselves. “Measure AJ. Advisory Vote Only.” [2016] “If Mendocino County adopts business license taxes on cannabis businesses by the adoption of the measure adopting…

Roger Schoenahl

Bruce Anderson: It was about 3:30 the morning of Monday, April 14th when a passing motorist saw a tall figure tying a rope to the railing of the Perkins Street overpass, instantly concluding that it…

Boonville’s Roger Schoenahl Found Dead Of Suicide In Ukiah

On April 14, 2025 at approximately 3:25 A.M., Deputies from the Mendocino County Sheriff's Office were dispatched to the 800 block of Vichy Springs Road in Ukiah, to conduct a welfare check on a male…

AV Class Of 2025 Applies For Scholarships

Another turn of the calendar and once again Anderson Valley High School Seniors are within shooting range of graduation. The Panther class of 2024 has 38 graduating seniors. The class of 2025 has dropped to…

A Tale Of Two CEOs

The County’s Chief Executive Officer is an appointed position that is supposed to be subordinate to the Board of Supervisors since they are the ones responsible for hiring the person to serve in the post.…

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