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Mendocino County Today: January 26, 2014
DROUGHT NOTES: It is easy to forget that the only natural force over which we have any control out here is water, and that only recently. In my memory California summers were characterized by the...
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Mendocino County Today: January 27, 2014
THE FIRST REAL RAIN in nearly two months could hit later this week, ending an otherwise bone-dry January, forecaster Mike Pechner of Golden West Meteorology said Sunday. Pechner said the Northcoast...
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Mendocino County Today: January 28, 2014
A STORM blowing over the Pacific Ocean is expected to hit Northern California late Wednesday, bringing about a quarter inch of rain to the Northcoast over two days, according to the National Weather...
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Mendocino County Today: January 29, 2014
PETE SEEGER DIES AT 94 Singer-songwriter inspired folk revival in the US and was blacklisted during McCarthy era for his leftwing views and lyrics by Alexandra Topping Tributes have poured in honoring...
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Mendocino County Today: January 29, 2014
RULE 16 refers to the Supervisor’s meeting procedures, specifically ad hoc presentations from The Great Unwashed during public comment. A recent controversy arose when Supervisor Hamburg cut off...
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Mendocino County Today: January 30, 2014
THE LIGHT RAIN that fell on much of NorCal Wednesday settled the dust but little more. The state remains dry despite a couple of feet of snow in the Sierras. The California Department of Public Health...
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Mendocino County Today: January 31, 2014
MARK COWIN of the California Department of Water Resources said Thursday that the snowpack in the Sierra is only 12% of normal for this time of year, the lowest amount recorded since 1960 when the...
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Mendocino County Today: February 1, 2014
THE CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF WATER RESOURCES ANNOUNCED Friday that barring miracle spring rains, the state’s far flung network of reservoirs will not be able to deliver water this summer. Department...
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Mendocino County Today: February 2, 2014
Cowin SEEMS FROM HERE that the state should go to mandatory water rationing immediately rather than wait a month to assess supplies at the end of February. The rains aren’t coming, as the water...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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, long-time publisher of the Willits News, has announced she is retiring, one more sign that the chain-owned Mendo papers, all of them overseen out of Chico, will soon be down to even more...
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...
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New satellite images show the true extent of the record drought hitting California, as the state declares an emergency and seeks federal aid.
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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 Century....
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: February 3, 2014
MAYBE HALF AN INCH of rain aside Sunday, if that much fell on us, the day at least felt like winter. There was even snow at the higher elevations. Highway 175 from Hopland to Lake County was closed for...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: February 4, 2014
SUSAN KEEGAN was found dead in her Ukiah home more than three years ago. Her husband, Dr. Peter Keegan, was the only other person in the home when Mrs. Keegan died. The death certificate reads...
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