The victims, Matthew Dyer and his wife Angela of Modesto were right out of the movie Beetlejuice, every bit the strait-laced couple, the Maitlands, played by Alec Baldwin and Geena Davis in the 1988 Tim Burton film. The perp, Bryan Stencil, looked just like Michael Keaton’s character, Beetlejuice — same spooky hair-do, black-and-white striped clothing, maniacal grin, the works.
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The trouble with the City of Fort Bragg, apart from its unfortunate name, can be summed up in three words: location, location, location. From putting a mental health facility downtown at the Old Coast Hotel,…
Reading the posts on the page is an interesting exercise. Pashilk is clearly a low-life, not really apparently a Nazi or white supremacist, but my takeaway is that he was “bored” after he became, ahem, “self-employed” in May 2015.
French journalist Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr might have been thinking of marijuana when he coined the phrase “plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose” which translates more or less as “The more it changes, the…
INCUMBENTS Hammerstrom and Deitz apparently are not running for re-election to the Fort Bragg City Council. Gressert, Johnson and Menzies are running. Heidi Kraut is expected to sign up by the Wednesday sign-up deadline. Mr. Johnson was the finance person for the City before he retired. He knows where the fiscal bodies are buried, and for that reason along will get the support of clear-thinking Fort Bragg people, as will the fiery Mr. Gressett.
While the diabolical terrorist attacks on innocent people which have taken place over the past year or two are still far from commonplace, their frequency has become such that I believe the reactions by many of us to such horrors are beginning, very gradually, to get increasingly numbed.
Control lines continue to be strengthened and improved. Firefighters are concentrating on fire suppression repair and are assisting returning homeowners. Damage Inspection Teams continue to survey the fire area to determine how many structures have been damaged or destroyed.
[Sep 16–18] Boonville Fairgrounds, 9 am to midnight daily. More info at mendocountyfair.com/county-fair/