AS OF 3PM Tuesday afternoon, firefighters were having a heckuva time knocking back a grasslands fire in the area of milemarker 39, Yorkville. Breaking: The fire was knocked down shortly before 5pm before it spread.…
Posts published in June 2013
A few weeks ago, Julia French released a concise, well-crafted video called “How CalTrans Sold the Willits Bypass” that focuses on the ways in which the project is based from top to bottom on misinformation.
Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably then I shall begin. It’s going to get very warm. I could be wrong of course, and my weather guru Dave Gowan is no longer around…
Fifty or so Valleyites showed up last Wednesday evening to look at the to-be-replaced Philo-Greenwood Road bridge. The first-hand walk-through at the bridge was followed by a presentation by three engineers from Quincy Engineering (Sacramento)…
When the first tree sitters protesting the Willits Bypass were extracted from their perches earlier this spring, the CHP and CalTrans brought in a professional “videographer” to film the process. Given the technology and expertise of modern filmmakers, the movie made by CalTrans and the CHP would never be allowed as evidence in a court of law. But it was posted on the CalTrans and CHP websites for the edification of general public where most people probably assumed they were watching the event as it actually happened.
SUPERVISOR HAMBURG has filed a damages claim against the County of Mendocino. The Supervisor and his attorney aren't talking, and County Counsel Tom Parker will only confirm that the claim has been filed, but won't…
GRATIFYING to see Point Arena squeeze by visiting powerhouse Ferndale in a North Coast Section playoff game at Point Arena two Saturdays ago. Justin Sundstrom slid across home plate with the winning run for a…
LAST AUGUST 30 the Mendocino County Sheriff’s Department issued the following press release with a certain amount of local hoopla: ON AUGUST 30, 2012 Mendocino County Sheriffs Deputies were dispatched to the area of the…