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Easing the Easement

Just behind the Zina Hyde Cunningham Tasting Room here in downtown Boonville, a brief road ran straight as a string east toward Anderson Creek. The road ran. Past tense. Farrer Lane, as it's called now,…

Fort Bragg Advocate: Not the Newshour

In its July 9 issue, the Fort Bragg Advocate ran an editorial that bravely confirmed what any thinking person already knew: Our local advertorial broadsheet — which is no more a newspaper than Bill O'Reilly…

Off the Record 7/22/2009

CLINT SMITH appeared in court last Thursday, the Honorable Clay Brennan presiding, presiding in the Willits branch of the Mendocino County Superior Court over what's shaping up as an Only In Mendo Classic. Smith is…

McGuire Ranch Clean-Up

Fort Bragg’s Georgia Pacific mill site dispersed tons of fly ash — the left over residue from burning wood — to several locations on the Mendocino Coast before the company closed the mill in 2002.…

An Anderson Valley Legend: Skip Boyd

Anderson Valley lost a legend on July 15, 2009 when Robin ‘Skip’ Bloyd passed away. Skip was born on May 15, 1945 in Fort Bragg to Robin and Dorothy Bloyd. He had two brothers, David…

Chief Gets a Raise, A Big Raise

Five percent over five years will bring Chief Wilson’s pay from $56,805 to about $72.5k per year when he retires. Chief Tunzi of the Comptche Volunteer Fire Department is not paid. Most of the County's…

Dead Man at Greenwood Bridge

The young man was dead on the trail near the Greenwood Bridge, the dusty path locals walk to get to the swimming holes on the summer time Navarro. The dead man had been shot, and…

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