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Today in Mendocino County: January 18, 2012

SUPERVISOR MCCOWEN has been elected Board chairman, Supervisor Hamburg, vice chair at the Board's first meeting of the year last week. The vote was a unanimous 5-0.  A Lilliputian squabble occurred last year over whether McCowen or…

Good Stuff, Bad Stuff

Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably then I shall begin. And what better place to start than with the startling news that has been reverberating around the Valley over the past few…

Q&A With 2nd District Candidate Norman Solomon

The 2012 election is shaping up to be of critical importance for the North Coast. If the political pundits and media talking heads are correct, 2012 will be yet another year of political gridlock and…

Not Far Enough

Last month Mr. James Bassler was at the podium on Low Gap Road to urge the Supervisors to adopt Laura’s Law, a mental health strategy the anguished Mr. Bassler thinks might have diverted his disturbed…

The Newspaper Did It

The AVA hit the tabletop like a flyswatter. Judge Moorman seemed to jump in her seat. To emphasize an un-filed motion, the youthfully demonstrative public defender Andrew Higgins smacked my newspaper on the defense table,…

Off The Record

LIVING PROOF of the old adage “You can't keep a good man down,” the good man we're talking about here is Vern Piver, the true mayor of Fort Bragg no matter who happens to be…

Lives & Times Of Valley Folks

Dear Readers: To cut to the quick: Whilst I have thoroughly enjoy conducting these interviews over the past three years, it is a weekly commitment that I feel I need to take a break from.…

Bird’s Eye View

Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably then I shall begin. ‘Gone but not forgotten’ — the following Valley Folk have passed in the last 15 months or so. They are fondly remembered…

Christopher Diaz Gets A Reprieve — Kind Of, Maybe, Possibly

Last Thursday, in a replay of November's extradition hearing, Deputy DA Matt Hubley presented the Texas warrant to extradite 22-year-old Chris Diaz to Texas where Diaz was arrested in June of 2010 for possession of…

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