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Posts published in March 2013

Mendocino County Today: March 31, 2013

TOWN HALL MEETING: The Aurora Natural Gas Company has purchased the mineral rights for a large number of parcels in Anderson Valley, and will soon begin fracking operations. Fracking is a much misunderstood process whereby…

Mendocino County Today: March 30, 2013

SCOTTY WILLIS often slugs it out with his lady love, Miss Kalisha Alvarez. The two love birds are what the cops call “frequent fliers,” meaning they are constantly in and out of the Mendocino County…

Mendocino County Today: March 29, 2013

BREAKING NEWS from the press conference at the Highway 101 tree sit site this morning: Tree-sitter Warbler is on hunger strike; 4th tree-sitter “Falcon” is across the highway; CHP officer says “That's up to Caltrans,”…

Mendocino County Today: March 28, 2013

SUPES SUPPORT WILLITS BYPASS — Despite Outpouring Of Opposition by Willits Weekly’s Mike A’Dair Courtesy Willits Weekly / https://www.facebook.com/WillitsWeekly By a 3-2 margin, the Mendocino County Board of supervisors on March 26th approved a letter…

Big Orange On The Rampage

Since Thursday, CalTrans' destruction along the southern portion of the proposed Willits Bypass route has been unrelenting. The roughly 1.5-mile long and 200 foot wide swath where Big Orange's contractors' have been sawing, excavating, and…

Letters To The Editor

BAIT & SWITCH ARENA-STYLE Dear Editor, The grand jury did not find sufficient evidence to rescind what the Point Arena School Board did when, I believe, they incorrectly defeased the bond. They will, however, be…

Uncle David

My uncle David Walton died in China on March 8 at the ripe old age of eighty-seven, just a week ago as I write this, yet I have already received an email with photographs from…

River Views

I read Bruce Patterson’s recent letter to the AVA with interest, particularly his reference to the possibility of Mendocino Redwood Company turning one of their stagnant mill sites into a biomass fueled power plant. MRC…

Bird’s Eye View

Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably I shall begin. In an extremely secretive service held at a location and on a date that cannot be shared, my family and brethren were honored…

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