THE CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF WATER RESOURCES ANNOUNCED Friday that barring miracle spring rains, the state's far flung network of reservoirs will not be able to deliver water this summer. Department Director Mark Cowin said if…
Posts published in January 2014
MARK COWIN of the California Department of Water Resources said Thursday that the snowpack in the Sierra is only 12% of normal for this time of year, the lowest amount recorded since 1960 when the…
THE LIGHT RAIN that fell on much of NorCal Wednesday settled the dust but little more. The state remains dry despite a couple of feet of snow in the Sierras. The California Department of Public…
You can’t be tried twice for the same crime in this fine, fair country of ours, the envy of the world for its just legal system. Unless. Unless you're Matthew Graves. Although Graves had been…
Alf and Mary Rose of Point Arena have a son named Joey. He was raised fishing off Point Arena Pier while his mother owned and operated the kitchen store at Arena Cove. Joey's dad is…
RULE 16 refers to the Supervisor's meeting procedures, specifically ad hoc presentations from The Great Unwashed during public comment. A recent controversy arose when Supervisor Hamburg cut off remarks by John Sakowicz critical of Ukiah's…
A Talmage couple was arrested Thursday night in what authorities are calling the most atrocious case of child sexual abuse in decades, according to the Mendocino County Sheriff's Office. Donald Earl Dunakin, 61, and his…
Theft. It’s the world’s second oldest profession. Some use force. Others cunning. Where the pickings are easy. Like your local charity. Who’d do such a thing? The nice people.
TIM AND MICHELLE MULLINS of Balo Vineyards, Philo, have bought the Live Oak Building, paying $600,000 for the venerable structure, formerly owned by the Peterman family of Nash Mill Road.