LONG TIME Valley resident Dee Thurman has passed away in Ukiah where she'd been taken from her Boonville home in Airport Estates for emergency care. Well into her 80's, Dee Thurman was a pioneer female…
Posts published in February 2012
Various candidates in the county’s supervisor elections have shown an early influx of campaign financing from a bloc of development-related funders. In the Second District, Southern Humboldt resident Estelle Fennell is the only announced challenger…
This year’s bumper crop of Congressional candidates has filed its most recent round of campaign finance-related documentation, and the big story is the huge number of dollars accrued by candidate Stacey Lawson. The businesswoman, entrepreneur…
At 6’3” and 195 pounds, Mike was the perfect picture of a man in fine physical health. An optimistic attitude about life, exceptional mental and physical strength and the kind of man that always made…
This Week: The Big Ponz & Zero-Tax Filers; Closing Fort Bragg's spiffy pool; Rich lady loses paintings, sues Elk Volunteer Fire Department; and much more
SMOKE AND FLAMES from Elk. Remember that fire last summer when the rich lady's home burned down south of Elk and priceless painting were destroyed? Now, it turns out, that the Elk Volunteer Fire Department,…
ANNE MOLGAARD, director of the Ukiah-based non-profit First Five, on why the Mendocino County supervisors should not reduce their pay: “I wanted to address the proposed decrease of supervisors salaries. I must say I'm pretty…
THE HOPI Indians would appreciate Mendocino County's cliff-dwelling vineyards, especially the one near Navarro called Rhys Vineyards, which is planted on the steepest hillside we're aware of where a vineyard has been attempted. Mendocino County…
The following is information I gleaned from a mailer I received today. I was on the fence about this project but I am not any more. Regardless of what you heard about its financial troubles…