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Happy New Year, Ricardo!

Winner of 2016’s Lucky To Be Alive Award, Ricardo Garcia, was sentenced to five years in prison early Tuesday afternoon by Judge Ann Moorman. The did not deviate from the recommendations of the probation report,…

That Old Maxxam Band Again

First came the “Dogwood” plan: a 320-acre timber harvest plan (THP) filed by Gualala Redwoods Timber (GRT) in 2015. It involves tractor-logging hundreds of stately second-growth redwoods that line the lower Gualala River, which straddles…

Off the Record (Jan. 11, 2017)

SUPERVISOR WOODHOUSE made it official last week, submitting the following letter of resignation to his colleagues on the Board of Supervisors: “Although I have made significant progress in recovering from my recent [mental] health issues,…

Bird’s Eye View (Jan. 11, 2017)

Coming Soon: Big headlines about the Valley’s restaurant situation. Full details next week! Meanwhile this coming weekend we will bid a final farewell to restaurateurs who have served the Valley splendidly for sixteen years. At…

Faulder Sworn In

A row of black robes, a jury of nine, as best I could count, were the sitting and retired judges who attended the swearing in of Mendo’s newest judge, The Hon. Keith Faulder who was…

Musical Audition

[Feb 3, 4] Auditions for Gloriana's Musical Theatre 100 Years of Broadway! Celebrate the history of Broadway and our great heritage of musical theater in this marvelous showcase of over 100 years of Broadway! Directed…

Salmon Creek Tree Planting

[Jan. 30] The Conservation Fund and the Salmon Creek Project Team invite you to join us on the Salmon Creek Forest in Albion to help with planting of redwood seedlings to help restore the forest.…

Young Poets

[Jan 29] The Mendocino County Office of Education (MCOE) invites the public to attend a free poetry reading at the Gallery Bookshop on Sunday, January 29, from 4:00 – 5:00 p.m. featuring young poets published…

Noyo Bay Tragedy

The first I knew of it, on the last day of the year, about 11pm, in a gently falling rain, a Coast Guard HH 65 rescue helicopter pounded down the Noyo River headed for the…

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