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County Notes: Supes To Compound Their Errors

Item 4b) on next Tuesday’s Board of Supervisors Agenda is described as “Discussion and Possible Action Including Direction to Staff to Develop a Contingency Plan for Creation of Department of Finance Based on Best Practice…

Valley People (July 27, 2023)

BILLY & WANDA OWENS of Boonville are celebrating their 60th Wedding Anniversary. Married in Reno, Nevada, on August 2, 1953, the popular local couple has spent most of their married life — 53 years —…

Off the Record (July 26, 2023)

JIM SHIELDS of the Mendocino County Observer out of Laytonville is at ground zero. He described the ugly July 8th episode this way:  A large crowd (25-30 people) of Laytonville residents were responsible for capturing…

Comments On Crime & No Punishment

Last week, I said the state of California needs to abandon the Pandemic-era failed experiment with emptying its jails via “catch-and-release” policies that allow crooks and criminal misfits to avoid incarceration. Some of these new…

The 1967 FBI File of Professor John B. Neilands

(The late professor John ‘Joe’ B. Neilands, his wife Juanita who retired and lived in Philo for years, and their son Tor were good friends over the years. Neilands was at the top of the…

County Notes: Bright Spots

It might come as a surprise to some readers of this space that there were a couple of genuine, if minor, bright spots in Tuesday’s Board of Supervisor meeting. First, with the appraiser staff now…

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