SENATOR EVANS SAYS NO BYPASS TO: Michael Dougherty, Director, California Department of Transportation 1120 N Street, Sacramento, CA 94273-0001 Dear Director Dougherty: Caltrans is about to begin the construction phase of a project of great…
Posts published in March 2013
IT COULD HAPPEN HERE. According to a story in the on-line newspaper Lake Tahoe News, 14 members of that County’s Grand Jury resigned en masse last month and then the presiding judge disbanded the Grand…
FROM DAVID HELVARG’S new book, “The Golden Shore,” an AVA recommended read: “North of Gualala is Anchor Bay and its beach where rumrunners used to drop their loads during Prohibition. Another half hour up the…
UNION BUSTING WITH BANKRUPTCY On Thursday, March 7, Coast Hospital CEO Wayne Allen issued the following press release. “Mendocino Coast Hospital Files Bankruptcy Motion To Reject Current Union Contract; To Seek Negotiations On A New…
PAINFUL LAYOFFS FOR WILLITS SCHOOLS By Jennifer Poole , Willits Weekly www.facebook.com/WillitsWeekly The Willits school board OKd issuing pink slips for 11.5 teachers at its meeting last night — well, the equivalent in hours of 11.5…
THE SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT is investigating a woman who may be responsible for Monday morning's Fircrest apartment fires in Ukiah. She may also have set structure fires in Merced, as many as a dozen fires there…
THE WILLITS BYPASS, AN EXCHANGE THE BYPASS IS GREAT… Editor, You know, for the entire 40 years or so that I have been lucky to call this county home, I’ve been struck by the absurdity…
Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably then I shall begin. And even if you are “sitting comfortably,” then any discussion of last week’s farcical developments at the local high school would no…
Della cleans houses on The Sea Ranch. Several years ago, one of the homes Della cleaned was that of Milton and Rose Friedman prior to leaving The Sea Ranch in their twilight years.