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Posts published in March 2013

Crime & Punishment

The week started out with two jury trials on Monday, but by early Tuesday both cases were out the window. The first one was a DUI wherein the defendant, Joshua Pollard, had reached across from the passenger seat and grabbed the wheel while his girlfriend was driving, causing a crash into another vehicle.

The Need To Proceed For Speed

Ms. Dillon is a briskly smart, attractive young woman with an important job. She not only has to secure venues ranging from where to park the equipment trucks to film sites, she's got to cool…

Mendocino County Today: March 19, 2013

ABOUT 75 PEOPLE opposed to Caltrans’ plans for a bypass around Willits responded to a “high alert” call from Save Little Lake Valley to show up Monday morning starting at 7am at the tree-sit site…

Bird’s Eye View

Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably then I shall begin. It’s the first day of Spring! Anyone feel like prancing through a meadow like a young gazelle? Oddly enough, I don’t. In…

Mendocino County Today: March 18, 2013

FEDERAL JUDGE CLAUDIA WILKEN ruled last week that inmates held in Pelican Bay's iso cells for years at a time can proceed with their federal lawsuit charging that these cells amount to mental torture. The…

Mendocino County Today: March 17, 2013

DIRECT ACTION Planned for Caltrans Willits Bypass! (Save Our Little Lake Valley) — Occupy Encampment & Large Protest Planned in Opposition to Caltrans Planned Destructive Willits Bypass on Monday March 18th. Caltrans is planning a…

Mendocino County Today: March 16, 2013

BYPASS PROTEST: Who’s in Charge of Enforcement? By Jennifer Poole
, Willits Weekly www.facebook.com/WillitsWeekly Who’s in charge of enforcement? CHP or Mendocino County Sheriff Tom Allman? Caltrans or CA Fish & Wildlife? Two top CHP officials…

Mendocino County Today: March 15, 2013

FRIDAY’S FIRE in Albion now looks like arson, as the following press release from the Sheriff's Department makes clear. The second item describing another episode in the ancient saga of domestic mayhem is not related…

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