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Posts tagged as “Point Arena”

Valley People

MEET THE SHERIFF. Miriam Martinez reminds us, “The public is invited to a free open forum featuring Sheriff Tom Allman as our special guest speaker. The A. V. Unity Club is hosting this public event,…

Fogbelt Bond Shenanigans

The Point Arena Schools District held its final meeting on Gualala's elementary school and the $3.5 million bond approved in 2003 to build it.

Off the Record

AN INDIGNANT editorial by D. Glenn O'Hara in last week's ICO thundered on about the inept management of a recent Point Arena City Council meeting, denouncing the Council for dithering through five hours in a…

Going Amateur: B-Ball on the Mendo Coast

The school gymnasium is just as you remember it: The smell of sweat, the smell of fear; the childhood anguish of an evil room where cross-armed coaches and lesbian gym teachers reside, shouting orders and…

Who Really Won The Murray Case?

Guest Commentary by Susan Rush, Manchester There was no surprise, on my part, by the article which appeared in the Independent Coast Observer (ICO) by D. Glenn O'Hara on February 4, 2010, in which he…

Murrays Lose, Point Arena Loses Bigger

Paula Patterson was appointed interim principal at Point Arena Elementary in November of 2006 by Point Arena Superintendent Mark Iacuaniello. Iacuaniello and his lockstep school board had just fired Matt Murray although Point Arena Elementary's…

The Superintendent Does Not Recall

Testimony continues in the civil trial of Point Arena School Superintendent Mark Iacuaniello, who's accused of “fraudulent inducement” — hiring principal Matt Murray to improve Point Arena's troubled elementary school then firing Murray after he'd successfully lifted the school from what amounted to state probation.

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