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Mendocino County Today: December 6, 2013
THOMAS E. CROAK died on Sunday, Nov. 17, 2013, in a car accident. Born on Nov. 29, 1955 to Johanna Gillette and Thomas E. Croak Sr., he was 57. For 20 years Mr. Croak was one of the best and most...
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Mendocino County Today: December 7, 2013
WITH TEACHER AND STUDENT TESTING much in the news, this sensible on-line statement: “I used to be a public school teacher. What terrified me about the prospect of having a significant portion of my...
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Mendocino County Today: December 8, 2013
NO SOONER did we say we hadn’t heard any local reports of local “black ice” vehicle accidents from the recent freezing weather than we were told of three on Saturday morning. Two incidents occurred...
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Mendocino County Today: December 9, 2013
Scalmanini STEVE SCALMANINI is the only candidate to file papers to run for the Ukiah City Council vacancy created when Mari Rodin resigned to take a job working for the Local Agency Formation...
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Mendocino County Today: December 10, 2013
OFFICIALLY, it was 25° in Boonville at daybreak Monday. That’s where the National Weather Service placed us on the Cold Meter. Unofficially, by the Cold Meter at the house, it was 20°, so cold that...
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Mendocino County Today: December 11, 2013
Thompson PUBLIC DEFENDER LINDA THOMPSON did not attend memorial services for long time public defenders Bert Schlosser and Tom Croak. Zero persons from Thompson’s classy operation attended Croak’s...
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Mendocino County Today: December 12, 2013
Kim JANE KIM is a San Francisco supervisor who, with her colleagues, are at last discussing neo-rent control strategies. SF rents are ridiculous, rising ever upward as more and more people with more...
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Mendocino County Today: December 13, 2013
THE DROUGHT By Gary Soto The clouds shouldered a path up the mountains East of Ocampo, and then descended, Scraping their bellies gray on the cracked shingles of slate. They entered the valley, and...
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Mendocino County Today: December 14, 2013
WHO WOULD HAVE THOUGHT? Those of us now in our golden years, remember when a couple of hard-charging Mendo cops (Stuart?) roamed the County tearing up outback pot farms, and through the 1970s and the...
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Mendocino County Today: December 15, 2013
THERE’S nothing physically wrong with me, and I’ll head off sarcastic rejoinders by adding there’s nothing wrong with me mentally, either, say what you will. But I spent Friday hustling up and down...
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Mendocino County Today: December 16, 2013
THE MAJOR & THE BUMP IN THE NIGHT… Approximation of area and lighting Tuesday Night CRUISING DOWN the Willits end of the Willits Grade last Tuesday evening about 6:30, and traveling in the slow...
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Mendocino County Today: December 17, 2013
Chief Bartlett HOPLAND FIRE CHIEF JOHN BARTLETT has an interesting sense of humor. Last week he briefly had a plastic Santa peeing off his roof all modeled in tiny Christmas lights. That one’s gone,...
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EXCUSE ME, but is it any secret that the economy of Anderson Valley runs on dual intoxicants called marijuana and wine? Why, then, would the local school board and its feckless (and wildly overpaid)...
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Mendocino County Today: December 19, 2013
Scalmanini THE UKIAH CITY COUNCIL has announced it will forego an election and accept the sole candidate for the vacancy made possible when Mari Rodin resigned to take a job in unsuspecting Monterey...
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Mendocino County Today: December 20, 2013
PROBABLY TEN YEARS AGO, I was an occasional correspondent with a guy doing a long stretch in an iso unit at Pelican Bay State Prison. He was confined to the “Security Housing Unit” on an allegation...
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Mendocino County Today: December 22, 2013
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Mendocino County Today: December 24, 2013
ONE MAN’S PLUMBER: AN HOMAGE TO BRIAN BLUMBERG by Thom Elkjer Economists use the phrase “essential utility” to describe something so important to a community that it must be owned or regulated by the...
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THERE ARE SOME big weekends in Boonville — fair time, rastafest, the annual beer party, a variety of wine events, and so on. But the first weekend in December is right up there with the rest, what with...
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