Last May, while Linda Pitman was helping her son and daughter move across town, the Ukiah Police Department stole her truck, estimated value: $3,000. Ms. Pitman's adult son Joe was driving. The front license plate…
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CELTICA ROCKS! Upper Peachland's own Wendy Rowe and her band Celtica rocked Lauren's restaurant last Friday night, playing to a packed house. Two of her band mates were held up in customs, apparently having to…
AN EARTHQUAKE measuring 2.7 on the Richter Scale rattled the Ukiah Valley at precisely 11:29am Wednesday. The United States Geological Survey said the temblor was centered two miles east of Redwood Valley, 9 miles north…
The first storm of Winter has passed. Already the forests of Mendocino are greening up after the dry heat of the late Summer. The rich smell of the woodland floor's humus is everywhere now. The…
Last Tuesday as Mendocino Coast District Hospital's 320 unionized employees overwhelmingly rejected concessions sought by management, the Hospital's Board of Directors was meeting in closed session to fire CEO Ray Hino. The next day Mendocino…
Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably then I shall begin. Talking of ‘sitting comfortably,’ no doubt the person at PG&E who made the call to shut off the power in Boonville at…
I met with Jerry at the home he and wife Stephanie bought a few years ago on Ornbaun Road on the outskirts of Boonville. Jerry was born on July 4th, 1955 in Newark, New Jersey…
Driving up Lambert Lane in Boonville Saturday afternoon I wondered whether we’d encounter any “angry old white people” dressed in colonial costume and waving hand lettered misspelled signs. We were arriving for what was advertized…