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Posts published in March 2014

Valley People (Mar 26, 2014)

MRS. RICHARD, of the excellent Coq au Vin restaurant at Floodgate, Navarro, visited us Monday morning. Gracious but unhappy, she explained the extended period of medical misfortune which has plunged her culinarily talented family into…

Lunch With Dead Dog

As of March 18th, the County of Mendocino has taken in $2,618,806.41 in dope fines. The idea is to trade drug cash for misdemeanors and probation. This way, the thinking goes, local taxpayers are not…

Humco Wants Daylight Jail Release

The county is backing a new State Assembly bill that would authorize county sheriffs to allow jail inmates to stay in jail long enough to be released during daylight hours. The bill was one of…

Bird’s Eye View (Mar 26, 2014)

I am writing this in a sleep-deprived state of anger. The Valley is in uproar. Everybody is talking about it. I refer to the noise pollution produced by the fans used at various wineries to protect their vines against frost.

Letters (Mar 26, 2014)

Just wanted to send a quick “Thank You” to the kind people at Roederer and Lazy Creek Vineyards. I am a local contractor who normally wastes his mornings by sleeping in until 5:30. This laziness has caused me to miss out on all of the goings on around my home on Clow Ridge prior to that hour.

O Five Charlie

We were surrounded by southerners at Fort Gordon. I disliked them. I resented their diabolical ability to exploit my chauvinistic northern prejudices about them and shuck me repeatedly.

WILD HORSES AND RARE TIGERS:

Award-winning films close out Wildlife Film Festival "Siberian Tiger Quest," which won the award for Best Human/Wildlife Interaction at the 2013 International Wildlife Film Festival in Missoula, Montana, is one of two films closing out…

Mendocino County Today: Tuesday, March 25, 2014

Memorial To Be Broadcast;
Coq au Vin Update;
No Right To Sleep;
Three Inches Forecast;
The Governor's Dreams;
KZYX's Snowden Moment;
Poem For Jim;
Historians On Trial

COMMUNITY CONCERT EVENT

Historic Holy Trinity Church, which has been serving Ukiah for over 100 years, invites the community to experience some popular music history on Saturday, May 3, when Jerry Burgan brings his Folksongs and Stories show…

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