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Posts published in September 2012

Valley People

TWO DEATHS of prominent citizens have cast a pall over the Anderson Valley. Bruce Longstreet passed away early Tuesday morning at his home in Philo, and Efren Mendoza died in Mexico on Friday, August 31st.…

It’s Not 1955 Anymore

A senior female paused to look at the AVA shirts we were selling, reading out loud to herself, “Fanning the Flames of Discontent.” Then she asked, “What am I supposed to be discontented with?” A…

Keeping Our Crooks At Home

The first part of last week’s Board of Supervisors discussion of this fiscal year's budget involved a lengthy review of California’s new “criminal justice realignment” and its effect on the County departments. Realignment assigns lightweight…

False Arrest

Juan Orr, 26, maybe of Chico, has libeled two Albion men every which way. Not only libeled them, got them arrested, thrown in jail and, briefly, charged with major felonies. It all started when Orr…

Der Super-Porno

Spotting an acquaintance in an airport can be unsettling. Should you say hello or disappear wordlessly down the concourse? It’s especially awkward when you spot that friend lurking among the smut section in a bookstore/giftshop…

Mendocino County Today: September 18, 2012

LAST FRIDAY NIGHT (September 14th) about 10pm, Mendocino County Sheriff's Deputies cruising North State Street, Ukiah, stopped a vehicle driven by Christopher Eichiner, 26, of Fortuna. Deputies made the stop “for minor traffic violations.” Eichiner…

Mendocino County Today: September 17, 2012

FALSE ARREST by Bruce Anderson Juan Orr, 26, maybe of Chico, has libeled two Albion men every which way. Not only libeled them, got them arrested and, briefly, charged with major felonies. It all started…

Mendocino County Today: September 16, 2012

On the Lam for Two Decades; Caught, Deported & Sentenced Skippy Massey, Humboldt Sentinel San Francisco — Lionel Scott Harris — who until 2011 had been a fugitive since he fled during his federal criminal…

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