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Abandoning Reason

Last week The California Report aired a special program on the decision to close 70 California State Parks, including 8 in Mendocino County. Among the jewels of California’s State Park system are Hendy Woods, Jug…

The Manure Chronicles, Part I

Sandy calls to say she’s gotten permission to harvest rabbit manure from her friend’s rabbit barn. So I load my wheelbarrow and a big shovel into my little old pickup and head for Fort Bragg. A sunny spring morning, the angry winds of the past few days in abeyance, I roll along the Comptche-Ukiah Road at forty miles per and try to remember if over the decades of gathering manure for my various gardens, I have ever scored more than a baggy of rabbit manure. Horse, mule, cow, sheep, goat, chicken…but never a truckload of rabbit poop, until today.

The Mayor Is Gone

Fort Bragg said goodbye to Vern Piver last Saturday. It was standing room only in the high school gym where one of the largest crowds in local memory gathered to honor the memory of this…

River Views

The river rolls on, but time and circumstance have a way of altering the river’s course. Some of you may be reading my words for the first time. Others may be familiar with a similar…

‘He Was Big & I Was Small’

The trial of accused Albion child molester Richard Kruse is finally getting underway after many delays and attorney changes. It's not looking good for Kruse who stoutly maintains his innocence. But another of his alleged…

Traffic Revenue Takes A Nosedive

Say you’re an average Mendo driver and you get ticketed for running a red light combined with lesser offense like not signaling or bad wipers. If you don’t go to traffic school your total fine…

Keeping A Poor Man Down

It was just possible to get 25-to-life for this poor guy by taking the strike offense and applying it creatively to the new charges, to stretch this latest crime to the limit.

Off The Record

LEONARD CIRINO has died. Leonard, the well-known Albion poet, had suffered from cancer, and passed away two weeks ago in Springfield, Oregon where he'd lived for the past ten years. THE FATAL 2010 shooting of…

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