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Posts published in September 2017

Mafia & Trump

Sammy "the Bull" Gravano has been released from prison. He's the one who turned snitch and brought down John Gotti, then head of the Gambino "crime family." Gotti was part of the conspiracy to kill…

Mendocino County Today: Wednesday, Sep. 27, 2017

Dogwood THP Stopped;
Free Rabies Vaccines;
UK Perceptions;
Little Dog;
Class K Adjustments;
Ed Desk;
Container Theft;
Pratt Nabbed;
Yesterday's Catch;
NFL Forum;
Chamber Music;
Memory Tour;
Shore Patrol;
Paul Gauguin;
Living Alone;
Sociopath Party

Croskey Saves Dispatch

After several hundred thousand dollars worth of consultants, at least four years of staff time, an expensive Sonoma County “agency” supposedly handling emergency services for Mendocino County in a professionally staffed manner, it was surprising,…

Murder At The Toplak

Last Friday, Oscar Alvarez-Carrillo was bound over for trial in the April 24, 2016 murder of Salvador Hernandez at the Toplak Apartments on North State Street and Lake Mendocino Drive in Ukiah. The holding order…

Off the Record (Sep. 27, 2017)

I'VE WATCHED the first three installments of "Vietnam," the PBS special by Burns and Novick. The first 90 minutes were very good, and provide a clear, fair explication of the complicated politics of Vietnam beginning…

Valley People (Sep. 27, 2017)

NORM CLOW WRITES: Not to belabor the story, but 18 years earlier, before taking the helm as Annual advisor, Gloria was on the 1949-50 AVHS Annual (Argus) staff as a student: third from right in back row.

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