Mendocino County Today: October 27, 2013
A READER POINTS to the relevant Brown Act law and wonders why the Supervisors don’t bother to report out of closed session in the legally mandated manner. We wonder too. We also wonder why closed...
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BERT SCHLOSSER has died. The long-time Mendocino County defense attorney was found in the kitchen of his home Saturday by his wife Deborah. ============================= JULIAN VILLALPANDO, 8, and his...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: October 29, 2013
FISH LOBOTOMIES Dear Bruce (and don’t knick away my very friendly salutation), The Open Lines guy was suspended for letting an F-bomb incident pass without correction. That’s not paranoia, it’s...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: October 30th, 2013
Diane Zucker DIANE ZUCKER has died. A long time resident of Ukiah, and before Ukiah, Fort Bragg, Diane was perhaps best known as a member of the Mendocino County School Board, serving for many years...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: October 31, 2013
WE ALL KNOW that among us walk the credulous. But credulity is one thing, lunacy another. 5th District supervisor, Dan Hamburg, a former Congressman, has crossed the line. He thinks 9-11 was an inside...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: November 1, 2013
THE PHOTOGRAPH by Steve Ebarhard of Will Parrish being arrested at the Willits bypass protest last month (which accompanies Bruce McEwen’s excellent coverage of Parrish’s court case) is a very good...
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A DEAD MAN was found in the trash Thursday morning at the transfer station on Taylor Drive, South Ukiah. According to Captain Greg Van Patten of the Sheriff’s Department, the man died from a 40-foot...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: November 3, 2013
FORTUNA POLICE arrested a marijuana guy driving a Toyota and pulling a trailer on Halloween. The stop inspired the following exchange on Lost Coast Outpost: “Anybody driving a Toyota truck that is...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: November 4, 2013
ON OCTOBER 12, 2013, KZYX GENERAL MANGER JOHN COATE wrote on his KZYX.org blog that when (if?) the Open Lines program comes back, “maybe we should rename the show ‘How Do You Know?’ so that all the...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: November 5, 2013
Audet & Jordan WHERE’S GOLDILOCKS? Ms. Jacqueline Audet was last seen in June of this year when she and her road dog (traveling companion), Donald Jordan were arrested for drunk in public. Jordan...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: November 6, 2013
THE MAMMOTH CASINO at Rohnert Park opened Tuesday. A joyous mob massed outside ran through the opening day doors to sit at 3,000 slot and video poker machines, blackjack tables and a variety of card...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: November 7, 2013
CALTRANS claims that Will Parrish, all by himself, has cost the Willits Bypass project $500,000. DA Eyster seems to think the claim is reasonable, and is vowing to repeat-prosecute Parrish until he...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: November 8, 2013
THE DAY of the Kennedy Assassination, I was a temporary English teacher at San Luis Obispo Junior High School. After high school, I’d done a tour in the Marines, picked up college classes at City...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: November 9, 2013
HEADLINE in Friday’s Press Democrat read “In need of rain, lots of it.” The “story” was accompanied by a photo of a drained, mudflat called Lake Mendocino. The story should be called, “In Need of a...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: November 10, 2013
WILL PARRISH’S TRIAL has been put over until January 27th because attorneys have not reviewed what Parrish’s attorney, Omar Figueroa, describes as “voluminous” California Highway Patrol and Caltrans...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: November 11, 2013
RECOMMENDED VIEWING only for people who will enjoy two hours of unrelieved, and unrelievedly graphic, beatings, lynchings, rapes, and murders which, as most of us already know, was slavery in America....
View ArticleMendocino County Today: November 12, 2013
FOLLOW THIS FINGER, DEPUTY by Bruce McEwen “Need for Speed,” the infantile flick filmed in Anderson Valley and other Mendo locales last spring, drew small crowds of onlookers wowed by the automotive...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: November 13, 2013
AS OF TUESDAY, November 12, the print edition of 8 November had still not reached San Francisco. ============================= Dr. & Mrs. Keegan IT’S THE THIRD anniversary of Susan Keegan’s murder....
View ArticleMendocino County Today: November 14, 2013
NOTHING BUT CLEAR, DRY WEATHER in the foreseeable forecast for northern California. According to the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Agency, the West Coast stands to be in drought conditions for...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: November 15, 2013
RICHARD PETERSEN Richard James Petersen, 71, of Ukiah, California died on September 23, 2013, of pancreatic cancer. A memorial will be held on Saturday, November 23, at the Mendo-Lake Clubhouse, in...
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