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Posts published in May 2013

Mendo Broadband Denied

Supervisor Hamburg last Tuesday told his Board colleagues about a Friday, May 17 meeting in Fort Bragg to discuss internet broadband service in the county. “The focus will be broadband planning in the city of…

Dead Man Walking

Four thieves went to prison last week. The first thief, Fernando Joaquin, got two years and eight months; the second thief, Dustin Cook, got four years; the next thief, Alfred Dominiak, got eight years and…

Prohibition ’37: For The Birds

Continued from last week's AVA: the 1937 Congressional hearing on marijuana prohibition. NARRATOR: The next witness, also from the hemp industry, was introduced prior to adjournment on April 29th and testified on Friday, the 30th.…

Janis & Jimi

Last October, toward the end of the month, I made one of several trips to Ukiah from Clearlake, where I was living at the time. Several of the local Ukiah businesses had Halloween window displays,…

Mendocino County Today: May 22, 2013

THE MENDOCINO Major Crimes Task Force, led by the legendary Peter Hoyle, was busy in Point Arena this week. Seems that someone with the initials P.R., living on Schooner Gulch Road South of Point Arena,…

Mendocino County Today: May 21, 2013

LAST AUGUST, a 79-year-old retired contractor from Fort Bragg named Harold Moore was arrested by a Mackerricher State Park ranger for (allegedly) arguing with State Parks rangers over a drainage pipe that apparently served Moore's…

Mendocino County Today: May 20, 2013

RECOMMENDED VIEWING: THE ICEMAN co-starring Anderson Valley's very own, Winona Ryder, raised deep in the hills of west Philo. Children under the age of 50, especially Pollyanna's kids, won't care much for this one, which…

Mendocino County Today: May 19, 2013

A 40-FOOT cave in at the east end of the Skunk Train's Tunnel One will prevent the popular tourist line from chugging on through to Willits until the tracks can be cleared and the tunnel…

Mendocino County Today: May 18, 2013

LAST TUESDAY, Supervisor Dan Hamburg reminded his colleagues about the upcoming meeting at the Apple Farm in Philo regarding the pending replacement of the Philo-Greenwood Road bridge over the Navarro River outside of Philo. Along…

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