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Posts published in March 2011

Twenty Years Old, Grange Variety Show The Best Ever

Jews harps, kazoos, and accordions. The county’s big­gest oak dance floor and the world’s smallest cow. A Medicare-eligible woman hanging upside down from the ceiling and pre-pubescent divas with broken hearts. Bearded ballerinas. A show…

Letters To The Editor

THE LITTLE PEOPLE Dear Colonel: My apologies for the sudden spate of communications, but I had to comment on the February 23 Todd Walton piece on the Bushmen. It cemented his place in my gallery…

Book Up On Diabetes, Doc

Editor, A Short-Term Death Sentence — On February 19 while in Mendocino County Jail I was tested at 4am and had low blood sugar of 59. I was given 25 units of Lantus but I…

Swill Buckets

We’ve heard it many times: Don't you understand? We have no money! The cupboard is bare! It's a structural imbalance! Our ability to borrow is jeopardized! We have no reserves! The Sheriff is overrunning his…

The Guns & Gardens Of Bell Springs

The cops catch a Bell Springs guy with two-dozen assault weapons and a half dozen marijuana gardens and they think they've got a case. The DA thinks so too, and it all limps into court…

Mendo, Meet Sean Fullwood

Mendocino Village was agog last week when multiples of police agencies cordoned off the town to flush out Sean Fullwood, 22, of Ocala, Florida, jewel thief, and a young man with a taste for the…

Off The Record

This Week: David Eyster's promising start; Willits' blue-clay slip-slide; Jerry Brown's big lie; and much more

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