A couple months back this column focused on the actions of Officer Craig Guydan of the Fort Bragg Police Department. I belong to a group called Coast Copwatch. Coast Copwatch submitted a formal letter of…
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As noted in my earlier article “Big Timber," logging was a major commercial activity in Anderson Valley for more than a century and had two distinct eras; the 1850s to 1920s, and the late 1940s…
THE HAMBURG-ROBERTS 2010 race for Fifth District Supervisor was, for laid-back Mendocino County, intense and bitter while it was underway, and unlikely to become less bitter with the news that the California Fair Political Practices Commission has fined…
BILL HARPER brings us the terrible news that Henry Hill died last Wednesday at his Navarro home. The story of Henry's remarkable life appears in next week's paper. MUSSELS gathered on the Mendocino Coast are…
In Little Lake Valley, aka the Willits Valley, CalTrans is preparing to destroy the largest area of wetlands as part of any Northern California construction project since at least 1977. That was the year the…
According to a wine-grower profile by Congressman Huffman’s (formerly Congressman Thompson’s) aide Heidi Cusick Dickerson back in 2010, Milovina Vineyards grows several varieties of grapes at their “manicured fish friendly farmed vineyards” outside of Hopland.…
Sex crimes are about as ugly as it gets in a courtroom, and for the next few weeks that’s what it’s going to be in the Mendocino County Courthouse — ugly — with three sex cases stacked up, back to back.
On May 7th, Caltrans goes hat-in-hand to the California Transportation Commission (CTC), which allocates funding for California transportation infrastructure projects, to request $30.986 million for the wetlands and riparian areas “mitigation” plans that I describe…
CRAWDAD NELSON WRITES: “I understand how easy it is to want to do something violent to an unknown perpetrator; I also get how easy it is to decide who the perpetrator is by some sort…