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…
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The City Council meeting met Monday night in Fort Bragg’s Townhall was packed. I am always amazed at how much is revealed by intention or by omission at City Council meetings. Whatever they intend to…
UNPRECEDENTED: A reasonable response from the Supervisors to a public comment! Ron Edwards of Willits offered a couple of simple suggestions to improve the Pot Permit report at the recent meeting of the Board of…
Two vegetation fires broke out in Mendocino County Friday afternoon the 27th of July, sending large plumes of gray-ish smoke into Mendocino County’s summer air visible for miles around. These two fires began when California’s firefighting capacity was already thin and tired from fires throughout the state.
A UKIAH RESIDENT called to complain, with more than ample reason, about the gang presence in her neighborhood. She wondered if the Ukiah Police Department had ceased paying close attention to the gangs, citing the…
DEPARTMENT OF UNINTENTIONAL SATIRE: From the Mendocino County Board of Supervisors Agenda Item 5a, July 24, 2018: "Noticed Public Hearing - Discussion and Possible Action Including Adoption of Resolution Accepting Two Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Funded…
Last Friday’s judgment and sentencing of Joshua Ruoff for the murder of Timothy Sweeting brought to the fore all the courtroom drama necessary to make for a classic Tragedy; that is, it had the requisite…
YOU’LL get a hoot or two out of Bill Bradd’s YouTube production called, “Precambrian Woodchopper/Writer.” And if you missed Bradd’s poem “For Big Al, poet laureate of his own river”: BRADD describes himself as the…
THE UNSPOKEN THEME of Tuesday’s Board of Supervisors meeting was Ignore All Representatives of all advisory boards — the Behavioral Health Advisory Board, the Library Board, the Museum Board, the cannabis permit “working groups.” Pot permit stalwart…