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Anderson Valley Advertiser

Letters (Dec. 20, 2017)

At a recent hearing with Supervisors Hamburg and McCowen, the proposed changes to our Class K ordinance were discussed and members of the public were allowed to comment. The supervisors have been gathering information to support or challenge the changes. Out of approximately 12 speakers, only one was for the changes (North Coast Builders Exchange). The rest argued for the continued use of Class K, unaltered. The changes proposed would basically gut the ordinance, requiring many of the code requirements which make building a home so expensive today.

The Goat Island Mystery

At one time early in the twentieth century Fort Bragg, California, was home to three dozen whore houses at the same time. The most unusual of these sat on an island, a roughly drawn line…

Bird’s Eye View (Dec. 20, 2017)

It’s the holiday season and the end of yet another year just around the corner. What happened to 2017? It was just beginning and now it’s about to end. It would appear that, just like…

DA Says No to New Courthouse

MENDOCINO COUNTY DA DAVID EYSTER is emphatically opposed to a new County Courthouse. Alone among the County’s elected officials in his opposition to the project, which would re-locate superior courtrooms four long blocks east of…

Shelter: A Perspective

“Human beings are the only species on the planet who have inflicted on their own species the need to buy, rent, or beg for their natural niches, their own living space. Every other species has…

My Life As A Cat Named Chowder

I was working as assistant chowdermaster in Mendocino County's worst seafood restaurant, which shall of course remain nameless. I have no desire to interfere with anyone's livelihood, particularly someone as well-meaning and earnest in their…

Mendocino County Today: Wednesday, Dec. 20, 2017

Branding FB;
Frog March;
Unresponsive;
Ambulance Skimming;
Figs;
SuperRisers;
Candidate Elizondo;
Ed Notes;
Little Dog;
Shelter Opens;
Holiday Plans;
Joyful;
Farm Report;
Aliens;
Yesterday's Catch;
Fox Sex;
Trumpersticker;
Ojai Ring;
Corktop Legislation;
Another Bubble;
Mesa;
Sales Job;
Fire Recovery;
Russia Probe;
Pissednecks;
Craig Taxed

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