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MENDOCINO OBSERVER EDITOR JIM SHIELDS DIED TUESDAY NIGHT. His family notified us of his passing Wednesday afternoon. We do not have any details at this time, but hope to have some soon. Jim Shields was…
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Probably sensing that Ukiah wasn’t exactly a hotbed of investment opportunities in 2017, the Bank of America closed their big downtown branch office. BofA then placed their form-does-definitely-not-follow function of an eyesore of a building…
WE WERE SHOCKED and saddened to learn that Jim Shields had died. The long-time publisher and editor of the Laytonville-based Mendocino County Observer, Jim was a good friend and colleague whose first-rate reporting on County…