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THE HOT WEATHER. Sigh. Monday, it was 104 in Boonville, hotter yet over the hill in Ukiah. Our usual late summer pattern is two-to-four hot days relieved by the inevitable cooling fog moving up The…

Mendocino County Today: August 15, 2012

POST OFFICE BLUES — MANY OF OUR PRINT SUBSCRIBERS ARE COMPLAINING THAT THEIR PAPERS ARE A WEEK LATE IF THEY SHOW UP AT ALL. OUR COLLEAGUES AT THE ICO IN GUALALA ARE ALSO BEDEVILED BY…

Glub, Glub, Glub

The Mendocino County Board of Supervisors made some history at their July 24 meeting. At the urging of Board Chair John McCowen, they formally discussed their responses to the Grand Jury report, item by item,…

The Mother Of All Toothaches

She had a toothache the size of Mount Rushmore. It was so bad she needed more than Novocaine, Xylocaine, more than nitrous oxide … more like 28 grams of cocaine and some “crack,” a mix of coke and crank.

Off The Record

THE GOLDEN STATE'S government has discovered $119 million more in hidden funds, the Governor's office has announced. These millions are in accounts for healthcare programs, reimbursement of crime victims and cleanup of underground petroleum tanks.…

Mendocino County Today: August 14, 2012

TWO LARGE FIRES, causes as yet unknown, continue to burn in northeast Lake County. Highway 20 between Highway 53 in Lake County and I-5 in Colusa County was closed early Monday morning and remains closed…

Mendocino County Today: August 13, 2012

AS THE FORT BRAGG POLICE served a search warrant Wednesday in the 300 block of North Harrison Street, they found an entire apartment creatively wired to serve an indoor marijuana grow. All of the rooms…

Mendocino County Today: August 12, 2012

FRIDAY'S LA TIMES editorialized that Arcata's panhandling ordinance, enacted in 2010, “…is too broad and too punitive, emblematic of the excesses that many municipalities succumb to in confronting the unsightly but all too human problems…

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