Mendocino County Today: January 28, 2013
ANONYMOUS says it hijacked the website of the US Sentencing Commission early Saturday morning to retaliate for the suicide death of Aaron Swartz, the internet activist facing decades in prison for…...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: January 29, 2013
WILLITS CROOKS maybe ought to stay in Willits. Ferndale police officers arrested two men from Willits early Sunday morning inside a bank in Ferndale. Sylvester Loren Vansickle, 56, and Larry Daniel...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: January 30, 2013
OF COURSE you know that four of Mendocino County’s newspapers are owned by an outside media chain. The interchangeable Fort Bragg Advocate and Mendocino Beacon; the Ukiah Daily Journal and the Willits...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: January 31, 2013
Schultz A UKIAH MAN arrested when 19 guns and a bomb were discovered in his home, was arraigned Friday on an array of charges. DA Spokesman Mike Geniella said Wesley Shultz, 43, pleaded not guilty...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: February 1, 2013
TOP 19 REASONS TO OPPOSE THE WILLITS BYPASS 1. CalTrans — an agency synonymous with No Accountability. Neighbors of the bypass right of way are already complaining that whenever they ask Caltrans to...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: February 2, 2013
GLENN HUGHES, 52 of Fort Bragg has been found guilty of second-degree murder in the New Year’s Eve 2011 beating death of Jose Madrid, 45. Both men had been staying at the Hidden Pines Campground in...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: February 3, 2013
Osterhoudt THE SAN FRANCISCO ATTORNEY hired to represent Mendocino County in the County’s effort to defend itself against the federal subpoena for County marijuana records is paid $300 an hour plus...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: February 4, 2013
SUPER BOWL NOTES: Great game, weird play calling by the Niners on their last possession with Crabtree absolutely mugged on the last Niner play of the game, but no call by the refs. Kaep played beyond...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: February 5, 2013
Kostantinov HOYLE NETS ANOTHER BULGO: Special Agent Peter Hoyle of the Mendo Major Crimes Task Force has brought another Bulgarian pot pharma to justice. This one is Dimiter Kostantinov, formerly of...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: February 6, 2013
THIS JUST IN: Chair Dan Hamburg reported out of Closed Session on Tuesday afternoon that the Mendocino County Board of Supervisors, acting as the Air Quality Management District Board of Directors, has...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: February 7, 2013
HUMBOLDT MAN ARRESTED for Threats in Spy Rock School Lockdown Case Foster As posted previously (http://theava.com/archives/20410) by Kym Kemp (originally on lostcoastoutpost.com), a Humboldt County...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: February 8, 2013
THE CITY OF UKIAH received a report Wednesday night on General Fund revenues and expenditures for fiscal years 2011/12 and 2012/13 and projections for general fund expenditures for the next several...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: February 9, 2013
HERE’S A SUMMARY of Mendocino County CEO Carmel Angelo’s appearance at the Anderson Valley Unity Club meeting Thursday afternoon, February 7, 2013. • Opening remarks: By background, Ms. Angelo is a...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: February 10, 2013
THE CASPAR INN will close at the end of this month. The legendary music venue with rooms for rent upstairs was for years the go-to Mendocino Coast nightspot, attracting many big name entertainers....
View ArticleMendocino County Today: February 11, 2013
THE KEEGAN MURDER CASE remains on hold. How long will it remain on hold? If we weren’t talking about a murder it would be laughable (or suspicious) that the case would be stuck in what seems to be...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: February 12, 2013
THE PERILS OF BLIND OBEDIENCE. Just in from the Sheriff: “On February 08, 2013 around 11:45am, Mendocino County Sheriff’s Office K-9 ‘Argus’ died as a result of injuries sustained in a fall from a...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: February 13, 2013
I NEVER THOUGHT I’d be saying that the Mendocino County Board of Supervisors is savvier and more on-task than the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, not that I’d ever held either in anything like high...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: February 14, 2013
ONLINE DATING. By Jeff Costello Am I admitting this? Yes, I guess so. I’ve been married (using the term loosely) twice, have four grown kids and four grandchildren. Not a particularly lonely guy and...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: February 15, 2013
THURSDAY MORNING’S PRESS DEMOCRAT contained a minor masterpiece of grammatical Stalinism followed by Nice Person Stalinism, Mendo style. Discussing the hiring of former Willits City Manager Paul Cayler...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: February 16, 2013
Justine & Michael Toms MICHAEL TOMS of New Dimensions Radio has died from diabetes at age 72. Toms cashed in on the national narcissism known as the “consciousness movement,” interviewing...
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