Here are two recent typical press releases from the DA’s office: • Sandy Lee Cooper, 31, of Willits, was sentenced on May 27 to 4 years 8 months in state prison at the California Rehab…
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Susan Massini might as well have torched Fort Bragg herself that September night in 1987 for all she did about it. In two hours the town's library, Ten Mile Justice Court and the old Piedmont…
By year’s end the greatest newspaper in the United States will have relocated from California’s North Coast to Eugene, Oregon. Bruce Anderson is leaving Boonville. The Anderson Valley Advertiser will become The Eugene AVA. Be…
If your name is Jim Chellberg and the FBI pounds on your door at 7 am, here’s what you can look forward to for the rest of the day. And the next two years. And,…
When last we tuned in to the Freedman Fiasco, Ralph Freedman, Mendocino County's former Director of Child Support Services (aka the Deadbeat Dad office), had been fired by the County and was being prosecuted for…
A Mendocino Coast community group is meeting with Georgia-Pacific consultants to discuss the future of the Atlanta-based corporation’s 434 seaside acres in the center of Fort Bragg. Once the site of a thriving lumber mill…
I stand before you a humbled man. Last Sunday I was out trolling for salmon with Mike the Rookie and showing him how to tie fishing knots. I've been tying knots for 40-odd years, beginning…
The proposed Mendocino County budget is written to hide the county's true fiscal plight. It also pretends that the austerity budget will work and that it's fair. But its overblown prose, larded with impressive-looking but…
The two attractive, forty-something women had looked forward to the annual Halloween party at the Gualala Hotel that Saturday night, but when they arrived at the hotel a little after 8pm, the merrymakers who would…