On March 1 a federal jury ruled TWN photojournalist Steve Eberhard failed to prove that the actions of three California Highway Patrol officers in 2013 were specifically aimed at “chilling” his First Amendment newsgathering rights.…
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At the January 25th meeting the Council was asked to consider declaring a shelter crisis. Lindy Peters followed by asking that a discussion of declaring a Shelter Crisis be the focus of the next Public Safety…
Rehab cut in half; property theft doubled; junkies and tweakers back in the 'hood, often as the homeless, and the promised millions for "Safer Neighborhoods" still being pumped into the prison system. But hey, it's…
On June 10th, 2015, the Albion-Little River Fire Protection District's board of directors considered a resolution at a public meeting to prohibit intentionally killing trees and leaving them standing dead. The measure would have effectively…
MENDO’S TULE ELK HERDS are growing. Like the reintroduced wild turkeys, reintroduced Elk have multiplied to where ranchers in the North County — Covelo, Laytonville, the Coast in the vicinity of upper Westport, Willits, and Potter Valley, complain that roughly 300 of an overall total of the great beasts estimated at some four thousand, are wreaking havoc with their fences and crops.
Jean Marie Todd and David Moore of Fort Bragg were arrested Sunday for pot cultivation and sales. They were previously arrested in February 2009 on similar charges. Local pot advocate Pebbles Trippett wrote about the…
A jury heard opening statements and testimony last Monday from two state troopers on the first trial day of a news photographer's false arrest suit against the California Highway Patrol in Federal District Court in…
At the day-long Supe's meeting of February 16th devoted to the Kemper Report's long, sad song about privatization of Mendocino’s mental health program, the most cogent public comment was from Behavioral Health Board member Nancy…
Last Tuesday the Board of Supervisors spent most of the day trying to deal with the highly anticipated Kemper report regarding Mendo’s disastrous privatization of mental health services. The most frequently heard platitudes centered on…