This week: RIP Louis Korn, budget cuts at the Sheriff's office, Captain Fathom back in the slammer and much more
Posts published in November 2010
Close to sunset in early November 2005, two young Ukiah men buzzed on crystal meth drove a white Toyota pickup to a scenic overlook on the south side of Lake Mendocino, a few miles east…
SUICIDE ON LAMBERT LANE. Derek Hanes, 51, was found dead Saturday morning on Lambert Lane, Boonville. He had hung himself on the property known locally as the Caretaker's Garden owned by Wendy Blankenheim and Doug…
How much local property tax money should be allocated to the administration of the Community Services District’s Recreation Committee, Teen Center, and Boonville International Airport?? For the last few years the Board of the only…
So much for 2010 as the year of mutiny, when the American people rose up and said, “Enough! Throw the bums out!” As the dust finally clears after the midterm elections, and the bodies are…
Tiburcio Vasquez was, for a time, the best known outlaw in America and, as described in a just-released biography called Bandito by San Francisco-based John Boessenecker, certainly among the most active highway robbers in America's…
The tragic, stranger-than-fiction story of Henry Cornell's own vineyard and proposed wine production factory reads as a distilled version of the relentless pursuit of the grape dollar by Sonoma County at large.
The kids were sitting next to their mother in the gallery when daddy shuffled in chained to some other prisoners and the guard seated them in the dock. The little girl squealed, “Look Mum —…
Back in 1994, the Board of Supervisors unanimously declared that the Sheriff’s “overtime budget appears to be out of kilter.” Sheriff Jim Tuso had spent $900,000 more on overtime than he had in his budget.…