Charles ‘Max’ Sperling of Willits was facing a number of charges last week, and that was before he picked up a DUI driving to court one morning. But things seemed to be going his way…
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Last week we reported the County’s difficulties in rezoning a minimum number of Ukiah area acres to satisfy a court-ordered settlement agreement with Legal Services of Northern California. Legal Services had sued the County for…
Troubled by security issues, the county’s Planning Commission has held the line on attendance at this year’s Reggae on the River festival. The Mateel Community Center, the festival’s operator, asked for an attendance increase from…
A year ago this week, the California Highway Patrol conducted its mop-up of the five Willits tree sits that had been blocking portions of CalTrans’ Willits Bypass freeway construction. The April 2, 2013, operation began…
Sheriff Allman's choreograph of last Wednesday's memorial services in Fort Bragg for slain deputy Ricky Del Fiorentino was a masterpiece of organization in honor of a man universally admired in Mendocino County. Several thousand people,…
Kyle Stornetta is a scion of a prominent Point Arena family. Clay Brennan is a scion of a federal court judge whose convenient connections got him appointed to the Mendocino County Superior Court. DA David Eyster is the scion of David Eyster, long time local attorney. And there's Keith Faulder, Mendocino County ace criminal defense attorney, scion of America's confused drug laws, and a go-to guy if you're guilty and can afford him.
On March 24th the Fort Bragg City Council held a public hearing to consider a resolution authorizing an application for a $2 million community development block grant (CDBG). The specific part of the Fort Bragg…
THE HISTORIC Wilbur Hot Springs resort near the Lake-Colusa county line was mostly destroyed by fire Saturday morning. Lately owned by Dr. Richard Miller, a kind of new age therapist and audio woo-woo peddler for KZYX public radio, Philo, Wilbur Hot Springs began life as a respectable resort for city folks in 1863.