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Mendocino County Today: March 30, 2013
SCOTTY WILLIS often slugs it out with his lady love, Miss Kalisha Alvarez. The two love birds are what the cops call “frequent fliers,” meaning they are constantly in and out of the Mendocino County...
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TOWN HALL MEETING: The Aurora Natural Gas Company has purchased the mineral rights for a large number of parcels in Anderson Valley, and will soon begin fracking operations. Fracking is a much...
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Mendocino County Today: April 1, 2013
THE UKIAH UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT will be millions in debt by the 2015-16 school year, according to Sandra Harrington, Chief Business Official for UUSD. And whatever happened to CFO or Chief Financial...
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Mendocino County Today: April 2, 2013
Zanders, March 2013, In Rocky Horror Show, May 2011 AARON HARDING ZANDERS, 32, of Ukiah, was arrested Saturday on charges that he tried to kill his mother. Mom called police at 3:55 p.m. to report that...
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Mendocino County Today: April 3, 2013
WARBLER was extracted with a “Dominator” cherry picker truck from the Ponderosa pine along Highway 101 she’d been sitting in for more than two months to protest the Caltrans bypass around Willits this...
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Mendocino County Today: April 4, 2013
THIS PARAGRAPH from the Wednesday edition of the Press Democrat manages to misstate the case: “The Willits protest, in comparison, is much more tightly focused. Environmentalists contend the 6-mile...
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Mendocino County Today: April 5, 2013
A MILDLY FRAUGHT Wednesday in San Francisco began with a dead man and a bomb scare. I’d just footed it out to Baker Beach and was truckin’ home along Lake when I couldn’t help but see a man crumpled at...
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Mendocino County Today: April 6, 2013
THE QUESTION was prompted by the frequent catch-and-release arrests of a Navarro man: “If the County Jail has empty beds, how come the judges don’t keep this guy in for a while?” THIS PARTICULAR...
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Mendocino County Today: April 7, 2013
Huffman THE NORTHCOAST’S new congressman, Jared ‘Spike’ Huffman, told the Press Democrat that he’s raised $80,000 in re-election dough only months into his first term. Huffman, once an All-American...
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Mendocino County Today: April 8, 2013
THE PD PUBLISHED a puffaroo Sunday about how to attend Giants games without taking out a mortgage to fund a day at the ballpark. Probably the best thing you can do is ingratiate yourself with someone...
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Mendocino County Today: April 9, 2013
AS OF MONDAY afternoon, a woman identified so far only as “Owl,” has commenced a Willits Bypass tree sit. ======================================================== A LOCAL READER WRITES: I was up in...
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Mendocino County Today: April 10, 2013
JACK GESSHEIDT, TREE SPIRIT OPPORTUNIST, INC., will photo shoot his next strip tease for the trees at Strawberry Rock in Humboldt County on Saturday, April 27th. Gessheidt recently staged a photo in...
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Mendocino County Today: April 11, 2013
TAKE THIS, PHIL Subject: FW: Caltrans: “Dan Hamburg says ‘move forward’ on Willits bypass” From: “Dan Hamburg” <vote@pacific.net> Date: Wed, April 10, 2013 2:14 pm To: Phil_Frisbie@dot.ca.gov Cc:...
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Mendocino County Today: April 12, 2013
RAUL ENRIQUE LULE, 43, the married father of two children, died Wednesday at the Redwood Empire Sawmill in Cloverdale. Reading between the lines of the scant press release announcing the accident, Lule...
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Mendocino County Today: April 13, 2013
ASSISTANT DA PAUL SEQUIERA issued this terse statement Thursday on the unprosecuted murder of Susan Keegan. “It’s still under investigation.” Peter & Susan Keegan REALLY? We’re not talking about...
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Mendocino County Today: April 14, 2013
NEED FOR SPEED has finished filming in Mendocino County. Today (Saturday) a large crew was on the Ukiah-Boonville Road from about 9am until late afternoon. The story line seems pretty simple, as does...
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Mendocino County Today: April 15, 2013
Brown MENDOCINO COUNTY’S Air Pollution Control Officer, Chris Brown, has resigned. Contrary to what the County Counsel’s office is putting out as the reason for Brown’s resignation, which is no reason...
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Mendocino County Today: April 16, 2013
A KIND OF STONER’S WOODSTOCK is on for this coming weekend as thousands of people are expected to join marijuana celebrations in Colorado and Washington, two states where the love drug has recently...
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Mendocino County Today: April 17, 2013
WITHIN AN HOUR of the Boston bombs, the conspiracy creeps were on the internet where one of the creepiest of all, Alex Jones, predictably claimed that our government had done it. Jones called the...
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Mendocino County Today: April 18, 2013
THE MARIJUANA LAWS, proposed and actual, change so often it’s hard to keep up. But a useful bill introduced last by Congressman Rohrabacher, R-Orange County, is aimed at resolving the conflict between...
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