Last May, while Linda Pitman was helping her son and daughter move across town, the Ukiah Police Department stole her truck, estimated value: $3,000. Ms. Pitman's adult son Joe was driving. The front license plate…
Posts published in October 2012
CELTICA ROCKS! Upper Peachland's own Wendy Rowe and her band Celtica rocked Lauren's restaurant last Friday night, playing to a packed house. Two of her band mates were held up in customs, apparently having to…
AN EARTHQUAKE measuring 2.7 on the Richter Scale rattled the Ukiah Valley at precisely 11:29am Wednesday. The United States Geological Survey said the temblor was centered two miles east of Redwood Valley, 9 miles north…
The first storm of Winter has passed. Already the forests of Mendocino are greening up after the dry heat of the late Summer. The rich smell of the woodland floor's humus is everywhere now. The…
ONE OF THE MOST AMUSING moments in Thursday night’s second game of the World Series came when Giants outfielder Gregor Blanco’s bunt down the third base line refused to roll foul as a crowd of…
NORBURY MURDER TRIAL UPDATE: Lawyers, Judge Discuss Evidence. By Tiffany Revelle A phone call Billy M. Norbury made to a relative from jail, transcripts from his divorce proceedings and further questioning of a juror who…
DISTINCTIONS: First, can we mention that phenomenon is singular and phenomena is the plural, like criterion and criteria. Even TV newspeople always get that wrong. Didn't such people used to be literate? Didn't people used…
ON OCTOBER 25, 2012, at 8:15am, a 2001 Infinity SUV, driven by 20 year old Domonic Troy Quilici of Crockett, California, was traveling northbound on US-101 at Cummins Road in northern Mendocino County. For reasons…
IT'S BEEN A TOUGH WEEK for Mendo law enforcement, men and women doing an impossible job at an impossible juncture of our ever more chaotic history. Several years ago a Fort Bragg friend of mine,…