Jim Young, coach of the Mendocino High School boys varsity basketball team, also happens to be my chiropractor and friend. I had a chiropractic appointment…
Posts published in “Day: August 17, 2016”
This season the team plays 17 league matches plus six non-league games that will count in the overall postseason seedings. I suspect the main rivals for league supremacy will be Roseland Prep from Santa Rosa (five-time repeat regular season Champions) and Calistoga —with the Panthers these three have held the top three spots in the final league standings nine of the last ten years. But no games are forgone conclusions — the overall standard of play across the league has greatly improved lately.
INCUMBENTS Hammerstrom and Deitz apparently are not running for re-election to the Fort Bragg City Council. Gressert, Johnson and Menzies are running. Heidi Kraut is expected to sign up by the Wednesday sign-up deadline. Mr. Johnson was the finance person for the City before he retired. He knows where the fiscal bodies are buried, and for that reason along will get the support of clear-thinking Fort Bragg people, as will the fiery Mr. Gressett.
LORETTA HOUCK has died. Loretta was a lovely, vivacious woman we’d all hoped would miraculously recover from the terrible accident she suffered in April of…
This letter is about the half cent sales tax proposed to be put on the ballot in November to create a new bureaucracy for the homeless and mentally impaired people. I am certainly not against taking care of our problem people, but what concerns me a lot more is where we are headed.
While the diabolical terrorist attacks on innocent people which have taken place over the past year or two are still far from commonplace, their frequency has become such that I believe the reactions by many of us to such horrors are beginning, very gradually, to get increasingly numbed.
Control lines continue to be strengthened and improved. Firefighters are concentrating on fire suppression repair and are assisting returning homeowners. Damage Inspection Teams continue to survey the fire area to determine how many structures have been damaged or destroyed.