TRAGIC WEEKEND FOR HUMCO LOGGERS, as reported by the Eureka Times-Standard and the Lost Coast Outpost: 66-year-old Thomas Alan Rea died on Friday after being hit by a log on his property in Garberville while…
Posts published in October 2013
THERE'S SOMETHING of a pistol-packing tradition among Mendocino County lawyers. Damon Gardner is only the most recent. The assistant Mendo DA got into a midnight fight in Sacramento last weekend during which, as Damon Gardner…
FROM SATURDAY’S SACRAMENTO BEE, by Phillip Reese and Bill Lindelof: “A Mendocino County deputy district attorney shot and wounded another man on a downtown Sacramento street following an argument early Thursday morning, according to police.…
A WEEK OF TOTAL SCUMBAGGERY for Mendocino County included three dead infant cases, the most recent involving a guy who simply dropped his dead baby in the Ukiah emergency room and took off, last seen…
WE ARE SADDENED to learn of the death of Susan Shields, long-time editor and publisher of the Laytonville-based Mendocino County Observer. Mrs. Shields died on Monday the 14th of October of heart failure. ============================= JUST…
FOLLOW-UP! TYPHOON WIPHA SLASHED JAPAN ON WEDNESDAY Wipha slashed Japan with fear over further damage in crippled nuclear plant TOKYO, Oct. 16 (Xinhua) — Japan was lashed by a powerful typhoon Wednesday which claimed the…
AFFORDABLE? To the Editor: We currently have Anthem Blue Cross with a plan called “clear protection plus 3300” they sent me a package of information on Monday and I actually read it. Now that the…
A long lost envelope of tomato seeds received from relatives in Italy haunts me to this day. My memory of it was of two varieties of saved local tomato varieties neatly folded and labeled from…