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Off The Record

This Week: David Eyster's promising start; Willits' blue-clay slip-slide; Jerry Brown's big lie; and much more

Chef Frandsen’s Choppa-Choppa

District Attorney David Eyster handled Chef Frandsen’s plea bargain. It's a bad sign for the defendant when a District Attorney himself wants to put you away. Chef. That's his name, the guy the DA himself…

Farm To Farm

When my teenage son and I bounced from Boonville in the middle of January we were merely embarking on a visiting mission — a vacation, so far as we knew. For that reason we packed…

Supes Rubberstamp Brooktrails Scam-A-Rama

As expected, Supervisor John McCowen brought up Mendocino County’s participation in the perpetual sales of “unbuildable” Brooktrails lots to unsuspecting buyers. When these unsuspecting buyers tardily figure out that there is not now nor is…

The Mother Of All Pot Gardens

The first week of Matthew Graves' trial was like a gun show. Last week the jury saw hundreds of marijuana plants from a network of gardens spread out over the hills of the Foster Creek drainage in the Bell Springs area of Northern Mendocino County.

Off The Record

This Week: A memorial for John Ross; an exit for North Coast Journal editor Hank Sims; a new police chief for Fort Bragg.

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