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Posts published in July 2016

Running The Resource Room at PS 30

There was no way I was qualified to take over the position of Bilingual Resource Room teacher. I had no training in special education. None. However, I was sick of my incompetent ESL supervisor, Mrs.…

Mendocino County Today: Wednesday, July 20, 2016

Facility Costs;
Highway Fatality;
Mr Jerko;
Tripping;
Trespassing;
Protesting;
Convention Coverage;
Anarchy Reference;
Recent Catches;
Lincoln's Card;
Melania's Speech;
Socialist Vote;
Teen Lock-in;
Job Fair;
Police Interaction;
Economic Insecurity;
Leslie Dream

Random Acts of Fshhhh & Swooof

James Allen Norton was enjoying himself immensely at the Evergreen Village shopping center in Willits on June 28th as he strolled through the parking lot slashing the tires of parked cars, chortling at each slash,…

A Dark Prospect

I was in the streets of Chicago in 1968 during the Democratic Convention. It was only a few months after Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King were shot to death. The “establishment,” as we called…

Letters (July 20, 2016)

Brian Hurt of Grist Creek Aggregates is currently negotiating with the Mendocino Air Quality Management District to resume rubberized asphalt production on Outlet Creek in Longvale.

Obstetric Complications At Coast Hospital

The Mendocino Coast District Hospital's Board of Director's hosted a public forum about the Obstetrics (OB) Department Tuesday evening, July 12th, at Fort Bragg's Cotton Auditorium. A crowd of a hundred or so coastal residents…

Off the Record (July 20, 2016)

SUCH IS THE DEMAND that something be done about the woeful and ineffective treatment of the County's mentally ill, that the Sheriff and a small group of helpers had no trouble gathering double the number…

Valley People (July 20, 2016)

THE BLACKBIRD matter will be heard Thursday, 9am, in the Supe's chambers, Low Gap Road, Ukiah. Opposition to their plans for a large expansion of visitor accommodations, accessed via Ray's Road, seems unanimous. The entire…

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