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Mendo’s Thorny Law Enforcement Negotiations

All eight of Mendocino County's "bargaining units" are up for negotiation this year. The "Department Head" bargaining unit, an oxymoronic joke anywhere but Mendocino County, has already agreed to a 10% pay cut. This "bargaining…

Lives & Times of Valley Folks: George Bennett

George Bennett is the father of Beverly Bennett, for­mer owner, along with Monika Fuchs, of the Philo Pot­tery Inn. While the Inn no longer operates in that capac­ity, Beverly and Monika still live there and…

Nitrous Vaudeville

In the early 70s we all knew that cocaine was the “greediest” drug. Marin County was giving birth to the yuppie phenomenon, and young, hyper-ambitious squares with stock portfolios, who “wanted it all now,” were…

Whacking The Sheriff’s Budget

On June 15 the Mendocino County Board of Supervisors whacked the Sheriff’s Department $2 million. Two million. The vote was 4-1, McCowen dissenting.

Off the Record

This week: The mythical Willits bypass, the problem with the Supes, the PD on Boaz and much more.

The Albuquerque Gang Meets Ukiah

On the otherwise tranquil early morning of Wednesday, June 23rd at 1:30am, Ukiah police and firemen were summoned to the Economy Inn where a 1980-ish Ford pick-up was “fully engulfed in flames.”

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