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Supes Working Diligently (?)

ON MONDAY of this week, Supervisors John McCowen and Dan Hamburg convened a meeting of their two-person Public Health, Safety, and Resources Committee to discuss the County’s Class K relaxed-standards building code, which apparently hasn’t…

Off the Record (Oct. 4, 2017)

A YOUNG MAN was found dead on the sidewalk near the corner of Franklin and Fir last Saturday, Sept. 23, just before 7 p.m. The man, identified as 32-year-old Samuel Michael Gibney, was believed to have been a transient from Fort Bragg, according to Capt. Gregory Van Patten of the Mendocino County Sheriff’s Office.

Symphony Fundraiser

[Nov 3] Help the Symphony of the Redwoods Continue to Bring Excellent Performances to the Mendocino Coast In downtown Fort Bragg, on the first Friday of every month, locally-owned downtown businesses encourage the sustainability of…

MPA Community Gatherings

[Nov 1-3] Local ocean community members are invited to attend upcoming community gatherings that will be held in Crescent City (November 1), Eureka (November 2), and Fort Bragg (November 3). Join us to learn about…

Big Idea Day

All day last Saturday, like the gladiator that she is, Marie Jones, Development Director for the City of Fort Bragg, conducted a public participation workshop on the old G-P mill site at the Starr Aquatic Center.…

Croskey Saves Dispatch

After several hundred thousand dollars worth of consultants, at least four years of staff time, an expensive Sonoma County “agency” supposedly handling emergency services for Mendocino County in a professionally staffed manner, it was surprising,…

Murder At The Toplak

Last Friday, Oscar Alvarez-Carrillo was bound over for trial in the April 24, 2016 murder of Salvador Hernandez at the Toplak Apartments on North State Street and Lake Mendocino Drive in Ukiah. The holding order…

Off the Record (Sep. 27, 2017)

I'VE WATCHED the first three installments of "Vietnam," the PBS special by Burns and Novick. The first 90 minutes were very good, and provide a clear, fair explication of the complicated politics of Vietnam beginning…

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