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Posts published in August 2018

Raconteur Gerd Stern Remembers

“He’s wasn’t a nice guy,” Gerd Stern said on a Saturday afternoon at the Sonoma Valley Museum in Sonoma, California, where Jack London once lived, farmed and wrote fiction and non-fiction. Stern was talking about…

Drowning In Regs

Last week’s column discussed marijuana legalization and some of the adverse consequences, especially economic consequences, it’s having on local communities such as Laytonville. I argued that there are one too many sets of regulations with…

Mendocino County Today: Wednesday, Aug. 8, 2018

Lake County;
Complex Updates;
Inmate Firefighters;
Emergency Alerts;
Wildfire Relief;
Little Dog;
Ed Notes;
Trestle;
Holdup Rumor;
River Cleanup;
Yesterday's Catch;
Bankrupt Elders;
3-D Guns;
Weeders Arrested;
News Decline;
Ron Dellums;
Elbert Howard;
Different Walls;
Class War;
Till Marker;
Awaiting Hector;
Trumpers;
Forest Management;
Pants Afire;
Disaster Relief

Millions For Mental Health Services, But…

Luke Stanford McCrae was arrested for assault on a peace officer on July 18th around 10:30 pm in the 300 block of Leslie Avenue, Ukiah. McCrae had just left the Ukiah Valley Medical Center, where…

County Notes (Aug. 8, 2018)

WHAT SEEMED to be a routine albeit ‘emergency’ Big Fires meeting of the Supervisors at their meeting of Tuesday July 31st turned rhetorically fiery when Sheriff Allman took the podium. After praising the stellar performances…

Off the Record (Aug. 8, 2018)

AS WE GO to press this week, the Big Fires to the east are still raging but slowly being brought under control. Gratitude can’t be expressed often enough to all the firefighters who’ve done their…

Valley People (Aug. 8, 2018)

AHILMAR! Anderson Valley's distance-running prodigy outraced her peers Sunday morning at the Noyo Headlands grand trail opening, garnering yet another first place on the Northcoast's running summer circuit.

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