AS WE GO to press this week, the Big Fires to the east are still raging but slowly being brought under control. Gratitude can’t be expressed often enough to all the firefighters who’ve done their…
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A UKIAH RESIDENT called to complain, with more than ample reason, about the gang presence in her neighborhood. She wondered if the Ukiah Police Department had ceased paying close attention to the gangs, citing the…
YOU’LL get a hoot or two out of Bill Bradd’s YouTube production called, “Precambrian Woodchopper/Writer.” And if you missed Bradd’s poem “For Big Al, poet laureate of his own river”: BRADD describes himself as the…
CHRIS SKYHAWK has officially ended his campaign for 5th District Supervisor. From Mrs. Skyhawk: “Given the severity of the stroke and the level of effort that will be necessary to heal, there is no chance…
CHRIS SKYHAWK, candidate for 5th District supervisor suffered a nearly fatal stroke on Tuesday, June 26th and was flown out of Fort Bragg to Stanford where he remains hospitalized but improved enough to soon be moved to a rehab facility. Cards and letters can be sent to him at P.O. Box 127, Albion 95410.
PLANNING DIRECTOR Nash Gonzales reported to the Planning Commission on the rebuilding in Redwood Valley since last fall’s catastrophic fires: “So far we have issued 73 building permits, 18 are in queue. I always talk…
MENDO is banking on a wildly improbable time frame and a ridiculous cost to increase the capacity of Lake Mendocino while the much, much larger Lake Sonoma goes virtually untapped.