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Mendo’s Backward Energy Plan

Mendocino County has a plan for how it will power its communities and economy far into the future. It's written into several chapters of the county's newly updated General Plan. Unfortunately it's mostly planning by…

Off The Record

AARON BASSLER'S despairing father isn't alone in his laments at the absence of effective mental health services. In Mendocino County those services, as they affect the most volatile persons, consist of the Mendocino County Jail…

Bird’s Eye View

Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably then I shall begin. Labor Day weekend is virtually upon us and while it’s not the ‘Mother of All Holidays’ — that is obviously Thanksgiving —…

Lives & Times Of Valley Folks: Floriane Weyrich

I met with Floriane at her home on Clark Road, on property owned by Roederer Estate Winery where she lives with the Roederer ‘boss’ — husband Arnaud, and sons Maxence and Mathis. We sat down…

Farm To Farm

The rows of green salad bowl and buttercrunch lettuce that I'd planted in the shade of a line of hard maples and shagbark hickories are growing faster than the red salad bowl lettuce out in…

The Murder Of Jere Melo

Former mayor and long-time Fort Bragg City councilman Jere Melo was shot to death last Saturday morning about four miles east of Fort Bragg. Melo died instantly from what police subsequently described as “numerous gunshots…

Goodwill Punting

Most of the items on the Mendocino County Board of Supervisors agenda last week were mundane — garbage contract details, redistricting, redevelopment, a couple of routine rezones to rubberstamp, and so on. But there was…

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