THE HAMBURG-ROBERTS 2010 race for Fifth District Supervisor was, for laid-back Mendocino County, intense and bitter while it was underway, and unlikely to become less bitter with the news that the California Fair Political Practices Commission has fined…
Posts published in April 2013
BILL HARPER brings us the terrible news that Henry Hill died last Wednesday at his Navarro home. The story of Henry's remarkable life appears in next week's paper. MUSSELS gathered on the Mendocino Coast are…
FROM the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office: "Seeking the public’s help in locating a missing person. On 04-25-2013 a Humboldt County Sheriff’s Deputy spoke on the telephone with the father of Garret Rodriguez who reported him…
In Little Lake Valley, aka the Willits Valley, CalTrans is preparing to destroy the largest area of wetlands as part of any Northern California construction project since at least 1977. That was the year the…
According to a wine-grower profile by Congressman Huffman’s (formerly Congressman Thompson’s) aide Heidi Cusick Dickerson back in 2010, Milovina Vineyards grows several varieties of grapes at their “manicured fish friendly farmed vineyards” outside of Hopland.…
Sex crimes are about as ugly as it gets in a courtroom, and for the next few weeks that’s what it’s going to be in the Mendocino County Courthouse — ugly — with three sex cases stacked up, back to back.
On May 7th, Caltrans goes hat-in-hand to the California Transportation Commission (CTC), which allocates funding for California transportation infrastructure projects, to request $30.986 million for the wetlands and riparian areas “mitigation” plans that I describe…
On Thursday, April 25, between 5:00 and 6:00 p.m., while visiting the Mendocino Land Trust Navarro Point property on Hwy. 1 about 1.5 miles south of Albion before visiting friends in the Anderson Valley, my Toyota Tacoma…
THERE WERE THREE AB DIVING DEATHS over the weekend, one off MacKerricher north of Fort Bragg identified as that of Henry Choy, 50, of San Bruno. Kenneth Liu, 36, of San Francisco was caught in…