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Mendocino County Today: August 19, 2013
THE SMOKE drifting into Mendocino County, mostly on Sunday, is assumed to be coming from large-scale fires burning in Butte County and three fires farther north, well north of the Mendocino County...
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Mendocino County Today: August 20, 2013
Pinches SUPERVISOR JOHN PINCHES said Monday that he won’t run again for Third District supervisor. “I never considered myself a politician, never mind a career politician. I’ve been in the job 12 years...
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Mendocino County Today: August 21, 2013
THE COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVSORS met in Fort Bragg last Tuesday to hear an appeal of a State Parks proposal to remove the remnants of the old Haul Road between Ward Avenue and the Ten Mile River. A...
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Mendocino County Today: August 22, 2013
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE, Eureka, at 2:14 this afternoon issued a severe thunderstorm warning for northwest California, particularly the eastern areas of Humboldt County and all of Trinity County....
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Mendocino County Today: August 23, 2013
STATE PARKS has apparently rented all the camping spots at Hendy Woods to a Russian evangelical group over the weekend, much to the chagrin and even outrage of locals. The Rooskies are said to be...
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Mendocino County Today: August 24, 2013
ALL THAT FISH AND GAME commotion at Little River yesterday (Thursday)? An abalone study off of Van Damme State Beach, not an abalone bust. ============================= LAST WEEK SUPERVISOR DAN HAMBURG...
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Mendocino County Today: August 25, 2013
ROOSKIES AT HENDY WOODS, Take Two: We’ve learned that there is indeed a group called Camp Skala that does have almost all of the camping slots at the park reserved over the Labor Day weekend. But State...
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OFF THE CUFF: SEIU, the union that represents most County workers, says the County has a lot of money stashed in the County’s reserve fund that should go to County workers to restore the ten percent...
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Mendocino County Today: August 27, 2013
A RECENT SF CHRON story co-featured a 32-year-old Democrat named Eric Swalwell, an East Bay congressman simply because Swalwell regularly appears at town hall forums at a time few congressman are...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: August 28, 2013
THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS, on a 3-2 vote Monday, denied the appeal by the Westport Municipal Advisory Council (WMAC) to stop a project by State Parks to remove the remnants of the old Georgia-Pacific...
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Mendocino County Today: August 29, 2013
THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY of the March for Jobs and Freedom made for painful listening. The original made Martin Luther King famous. Today’s event was a bad joke, an insult to King’s memory and really...
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Mendocino County Today: August 31, 2013
AVA, MARCH 2013 — This rumor is making the rounds on the Mendocino Coast: The sprawling (by Coast standards) Heritage House, recently purchased by a certain Mr. Greene out of Florida who flies in and...
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Mendocino County Today: September 1, 2013
SPIKE’S FINEST HOUR. Obama’s missile blitz of Syria seems to have stalled, with even conservative liberals like our Congressman Huffman falling in behind Barbara Lee of Oakland and John Garamendi of...
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Mendocino County Today: September 2, 2013
LABOR DAY WEEKEND in a country where less than 15% of people who work for wages are represented by a labor union, and less than that in Mendocino County unless you’re a teacher or a County worker bee....
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Mendocino County Today: September 3, 2013
KARMA MITE? Area pot farmers are in a major panic at the appearance of the hemp rust (or hemp russet) mite. If this new pest gets into your pot garden, your garden is gone in a week or two. The hemp...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: September 4, 2013
IT COULD HAPPEN HERE! The Albany County (New York) sheriff says a 50-year-old man is dead after being nearly decapitated by a wire he had strung on his property to protect a marijuana crop from...
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Mendocino County Today: September 5, 2013
Coate KZYX’S SELDOM SEEN station manager, John Coate, is in Australia to attend a radio conference, and news blurb guy Paul Lambert is on vacation. Lambert’s interim replacement is a fellow called...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: September 6, 2013
THE PRESS DEMOCRAT announced Wednesday it’s going to charge for its on-line edition. Bad idea. The PD doesn’t do anything worth paying for. The SF Chron just tried a pay-to-read scheme the Chron...
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Mendocino County Today: September 7, 2013
THE ORACLE SPEAKS: The AVA emailed KZYX General Manager John Coate on Thursday: Hello, Mr. Coate: Is your trip to Australia funded by our public radio station? Thank you, Bruce Anderson, AVA * * * Mr....
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Mendocino County Today: September 8, 2013
“BUT IF THOUGHT CORRUPTS LANGUAGE, language can also corrupt thought.” — George Orwell, 1984 IN THE FOLLOWING, Mendocino County manages to corrupt both language and thought. * * * THE FIRST ITEM on...
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