As of this summer, Mendocino County’s system of mental health care for adults has been placed in the hands of a private company, Ortner Management Group (OMG).
Posts published in September 2013
THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS voted final approval of the 2013-14 Final Budget at their meeting on Monday. The budget continues to build the County's reserve fund and also sets money aside for capital improvements. It…
THE FAIRGROUNDS is ablaze in zinnias and bustle as the annual County Fair gets ready to kick off Friday and will run on through Sunday, featuring lots of interesting events that include a soccer game…
The 2013 AV High School Boys’ soccer season continued with three matches over a six-day period last week as the team faced Sonoma Academy, Potter Valley, and Cloverdale. The first of these, a home league…
In a world where things seem to change every couple of years, or every couple of minutes, we are blessed in our community to be able to stand in this meadow and walk in these groves of ancient redwoods and know that they have only modestly changed in the course of a thousand years.
PATRICK GUZMAN, 70, of Fort Bragg, was reported missing September 3rd when his white, 1999 Cadillac Deville, was found with the engine running in a pullout off Highway One near Westport. Five days later, September…
THE ROAD TO DAMASCUS began for me Saturday noon at the foot of Market Street, San Francisco, where a very large, unhappy woman was bellowing insults at indifferent passersby. Anymore, unless a street person leaps…
“BUT IF THOUGHT CORRUPTS LANGUAGE, language can also corrupt thought.” — George Orwell, 1984 IN THE FOLLOWING, Mendocino County manages to corrupt both language and thought. * * * THE FIRST ITEM on next Monday’s…
THE ORACLE SPEAKS: The AVA emailed KZYX General Manager John Coate on Thursday: Hello, Mr. Coate: Is your trip to Australia funded by our public radio station? Thank you, Bruce Anderson, AVA * * *…