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When The Justice Department Visited Boonville [May 2001]

Tony Serra and Erica Etelson are out as attorneys for the Bari Cult's pending federal case, scheduled to begin the first week of October. Dennis Cunningham is back as lead attorney. Cunningham and the late…

Breakout On Low Gap Road

Mid-winter, Ukiah, many years ago.  The sullen skies, the weary sun, the scheming team of idle men with crafty minds huddled in a cell at the county jail on Low Gap Road, planning an escape. …

State Declines Palace Hotel Role

The State Historic Preservation Office says it cannot intervene in the fate of the landmark Palace Hotel because Ukiah city officials’ actions preempted a role in the contentious local issue. The decision is a setback…

Rosie Radiator: NorCal Tap Dance Guru, Dead at 78

We were saddened to hear of the death last week of the northcoast’s most famous tap dancer “Rosie Radiator” (aka Bess Bair) at the age of 78 in Florida where she had retired for family…

County Notes

We are now reliably informed that the Veterans Service Office really is moving back to their original office at the cottage on Observatory Avenue where they were prior to January, although we still haven’t heard…

A Mother’s Beheading Shakes Little River

Little River, Mendocino County — The night before the shooting and killing and roaring flames changed everything, Asahn Smith got a text from a friend he hadn’t spoken with in years. Fletcher Pinkham, his old…

County Notes: Mendo’s Looming Mental Health Staffing Crisis

Sheriff Kendall told the ‘Like It Or Not’ podcast dudes in Ukiah recently that he will need an additional ten uniformed officers (and probably a few more non-uniformed) to staff the new “Mental Health Wing”…

The Kendall Family Saga, Part II

The Kendall family settlers in Anderson Valley, founders of Kendall City (soon subsequently renamed Boonville) descended from English, Scots, Irish and perhaps Spanish ancestors. Y.I. Kendall’s wife Flavilla (Fanny) Burnham Kendall was Scots-English (her first…

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