“Laura’s Law has always been a non-starter in Mendo. We can’t afford it,” said one County official involved in the preparation for last week’s two-and-a-half-hour presentation on the “court assisted outpatient treatment” program. Advocates think…
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UKIAH'S FOREST CLUB, the famous bar and retreat on State Street opposite the Courthouse, has been closed by the ABC for 30 days because an underage kid, dispatched by the ABC on a sting mission,…
The legal battle between the North Coast Railroad Authority (NCRA) and the Friends Of the Eel River (FOER) became a battle of words at the rail agency’s meeting last week. Mutual resentment was on full…
I met with Jim a couple of weeks ago at the property he owns just south of Philo on Highway 128. He lives in a beautiful house alongside The Madrones small business complex, home to…
Step aboard the wayback machine for another trip to Anderson Valley of my childhood in the late 1950s and 1960s — and in this case, into the 1970s. I begin with an apology for taking…
Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably then I shall begin. Apart from being three of the nicer ladies in the Valley, what do these three have in common? Mary Darling, Joanne Clark,…
This is a story about a man who is much more interesting than the hassle he's in. First, the man. You wouldn't guess looking at him that Tu Blujays is 63. He looks like the…
Jeanine Nadel, new judge. Most male-type individuals will tell you, as just as many female-type individuals disagree, that plenty of women have hurtled through the glass ceiling in the last thirty years. But in Mendoland,…
Since what is now going on is being described as “the greatest financial scandal in the history of Britain” — the Barclays imbroglio — I have a question to ask: Where are…