REPORTS FROM VARIOUS areas of the County say an average of six inches of rain has fallen on our parched lands since Thursday. The Russian River is waaaay up at Hopland, the streams of Anderson Valley are running strong, wells and springs everywhere from Gualala to Laytonville rejuvenated.
Anderson Valley Advertiser
RAIN CONTINUES, AND SO DOES DROUGHT
With drought conditions expected to persist despite recent and forecast rain, officials are urging the public to continue conservation, and to follow local regulations in the event that their homes run dry.
THE WEATHER PEOPLE are now predicting as much as 8 inches of rain over the weekend. We'll all know for certain that we've seen a deluge if Highway 128 is closed at Flynn Creek Road…
Sacramento County District Attorney Jan Scully announced today that a Mendocino County prosecutor who shot a pedestrian during a fight in Sacramento in October has been arrested on misdemeanor counts of carrying a loaded firearm in public and carrying a concealed weapon.
THE FEBRUARY MIRACLE? The upper level ridge that has blocked weather systems for the past three months will shift farther to the west and a low pressure system will move into the Gulf of Alaska.
Like everyone else, I was saddened by the death of Philip Seymour Hoffman. What a talent. How awful that something in him was so haunting that only the killer drug could fight it off.
The slo-mo labor relations trainwreck between SEIU 1021 and Mendocino County continues to play out with both sides having now issued dueling press releases based on the findings and recommendations of a “fact finding” panel.…