Glenn Sunkett, the Oakland guy convicted last summer of orchestrating a brutal home invasion at a grow just north of Fort Bragg, apparently got the Ukiah courthouse locked down last Friday, according to the Daily Journal:…
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Look at those Costco executives grinning ear-to-ear. They’ve got the city of Ukiah and Mendocino County engaged in a bidding war for the location of a planned new store in the Ukiah Valley, a winner-take-all…
I wrote a sweet little piece of fluff on Fort Bragg's new artisanal bakery and its hulking wood-burning brick oven. Normally, I'm not one for quaintness. And I especially bridle at the idea that the…
While Mendo's pro- and anti-pot legions tussle over the particulars of the county's economic engine, a pro-legalization movement--and lobby--more potent than ever has sprouted across the country, according to a lengthy overview published in this…
A day may come when ordinary people — who earnestly care about nature — will come to realize that we’ve lost control of our shoreline. Let’s consider the MLPA, the Marine Life Protection Act, passed…
Manhattan Beach in Los Angeles County is part of the so-called South Bay, south of Santa Monica. It was mostly populated by middle-class white people when I grew up there in the 1950s, and was…
Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably then I shall begin. Senior citizens and two-year old children, loggers and shepherds, chefs and caterers, journalists and hack writers, schoolteachers and AVHS alumni, brewers and…
Anderson Valley High School and Fort Bragg High School have won figurative silver medals -- again this year -- in a US News & World Report competition called Best High Schools. U.S. News functions as…
THIS POOR GUY, a walking advertisement for single payer health coverage, was booked into the Mendocino County Jail a few days ago for missing probation appointments, probably because he couldn't lift his tumor off his pillow.…