Mendocino County Today: January 7, 2014
SOHUM RESIDENT ACCUSED OF SHOCKING EUREKA MURDER by Daniel Mintz A Southern Humboldt man has been charged in the New Year’s Day murder of the pastor of one of Eureka’s most iconic churches. Police...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: January 8, 2014
RECOMMENDED READING: Four Days in November: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy by Vincent Bugliosi. By far the clearest and most convincing book on the subject I’ve ever read. Bugliosi,...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: January 9, 2014
SUPERVISORS DECLARE DROUGHT EMERGENCY by Tiffany Revelle The Mendocino County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday voted unanimously to declare a local emergency “and imminent threat of disaster” from...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: January 10, 2014
WILLITS POISED TO DECLARE DROUGHT EMERGENCY by Linda Williams The city has about 100 days of water in its reservoir and January is projected to be drier than normal. The Willits City Council is...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: January 11, 2014
THE COUNTY has established a hurry-up “drought hotline” at 463-4589. The idea is that County residents will provide status reports on their individual water situations so the County can get a clear...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: January 12, 2014
ABOUT AN HOUR of rain fell on Mendocino County Saturday morning, just enough to sweeten the air and whet our thirst for more, much more. If we got a quarter inch we’d be surprised. By early afternoon...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: January 13, 2014
WE IMMEDIATELY THOUGHT of the Willits Bypass when reading the recent news that New Jersey Governor Chris Christie’s staff created a bottleneck on the George Washington Bridge for several days on the...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: January 14, 2014
NO RAIN in the forecast for at least the next two weeks as CalFire, Monday, announced an “uncommon fire weather watch” from Monday night to Tuesday morning as the weather service warns of a potentially...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: January 15, 2014
TINFOIL HAT ALERT, ALBION! Verizon is asking the County’s Planning Commission for permission to erect “a 105-foot monopole supporting 12 panel antennas, including two GPS antennas” one mile south of...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: January 16, 2014
WILL PARRISH, perhaps best known as a writer with the AVA, will next appear in court on Monday, January 27th, where he faces a wild array of misdemeanor charges — 17 of them — for three arrests in...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: January 17, 2014
Debbie Clark (Photo, courtesy, the Willits News) DEBBIE CLARK, long-time publisher of the Willits News, has announced she is retiring, one more sign that the chain-owned Mendo papers, all of them...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: January 18, 2014
BREAKING… (01-17) 10:01 PST San Francisco — Governor Jerry Brown on Friday officially declared a drought emergency in California, asking residents to voluntarily reduce their water use by 20 percent...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: January 18, 2014
CALIFORNIA DROUGHT EMERGENCY MADE OFFICIAL (01-17) 10:01 PST San Francisco — Governor Jerry Brown on Friday officially declared a drought emergency in California, asking residents to voluntarily reduce...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: January 19, 2014
MATEEL’S BLATANT VIOLATIONS Dear Mr. Anderson, I wanted you to know about this. I can’t get any of the “news agencies” in SoHum to look into this (see attachment). My concern is the unpermitted and...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: January 20, 2014
Kingman LOCAL AUTHOR PEG KINGMAN’S LATEST NOVEL is in the offing, and should be out later this year. It’s the third and final installment in her contract with W.W.Norton for a trilogy set in the 19th...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: January 21, 2014
WHERE WERE YOU WHEN MLK…? Hi, Everyone knows where they were, etc., when JFK was shot. I’m interested in your stories of where you were, what happened, what you thought, etc., when MLK was shot. As an...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: January 22, 2014
THE ANDERSON VALLEY SENIOR CENTER Crab Feed last week was a huge success, leavened you could say, with the most generous donation by Cousteaux Bakery of 40 loaves of bread. A second crab feed, The...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: January 23, 2014
WILL PARRISH is due in Mendocino County Superior Court Thursday morning where, it appears, an announcement will be made that his case has been settled. PARRISH was arrested last year after strapping...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: January 24, 2014
WILL PARRISH TAKES TWO-YEAR INFRACTION PLEA DEAL by Tiffany Revelle Willits bypass protester Will Parrish took a plea deal in Mendocino County Superior Court Thursday in the trespassing case against...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: January 25, 2014
DROUGHT NOTES SO MUCH WATER is moved around California by so many different agencies that maybe only the movers themselves know on any given day whose water is where. But to get a general picture it is...
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