RICHARD KRUSE of Albion has been sentenced to ten years in state prison. Kruse, 68, had been found guilty of molesting young girls under the auspices of a girls only water ski club. Charges against…
Posts published in May 2012
FRONT PAGE HED from the Thursday, May 24th edition of the Ukiah Daily Journal: “100 pot plants found in Willits home.” In other news that day, the sun rose in the east and the dish…
CAMPAIGN DISCLOSURE STATEMENTS were due last week. Few surprises. Congressman Mike Thompson has raised $1.2 million dollars in his campaign to defeat nobody for his new seat to the south of us. Jared Huffman still…
AFTER 13 years as a counselor at Boonville High School, Jerry Cox has announced his formal retirement. “When you no longer can steal 2nd base, it's time to hang up your cleats,” he says. (And…
JUAN LERMA, 46, of Fort Bragg, has been identified as the man killed by a falling limb early Monday morning off the old Masonite Road near Navarro. An experienced faller with Shuster Logging, Lerma was…
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The whole world is hanging by its fingernails, refusing to be dragged into the future. That future is all about contraction. We could navigate our way into it but we don't…
STONED DOGS Dear Editor, There is truth to these stories about “stoned dogs,” temporarily disoriented, unable to move normally. But it's not a dangerous situation, as stated by Glenda Anderson in the 5/17/12 Press Democrat:…