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Mendocino County Today: June 19, 2013
IN SUNDAY’S UKIAH DAILY JOURNAL, Tommy Wayne Kramer conflates hippies and “the left.” He said the hippies have stopped lots of cool progress like rural bypasses erected by those prodigies of...
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Mendocino County Today: June 21, 2013
THE MENDOCINO COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE has formally identified the victim of a shooting near a Spy Rock Road pot garden as Upper Lake resident Hugo Olea-Lopez, 23. Olea-Lopez was found dead of a single...
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Mendocino County Today: June 22, 2013
ABOUT 50 BYPASS PROTESTERS began to impede wick drain installation in a field (aka former wetland) along the northern end of the bypass construction zone on Wednesday. The California Highway Patrol...
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Mendocino County Today: June 23, 2013
WHO SAYS we don’t benefit from the casinos? The Indian Gaming Special Distribution Fund, with a committee comprised of local elected officials looking on, has awarded $140,772.33 to all eight Mendocino...
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RASTAFARIANS here, Rastafarians there, Rastafarians everywhere in Boonville this weekend. Overall impression is of shuffling, listless people, most of them young but enervated-seeming. Thanatoids. The...
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Mendocino County Today: June 25, 2013
WILLITS POLICE are investigating the death of Danny Lawrason, 77, found dead in his home on East San Francisco Avenue on Sunday June 16th. A press release from the police was ambiguous. It said that...
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KNOW YOUR NEIGHBORS. Black Bird Farm is still mostly known locally as Highland Ranch, ancestral home of the late Charmian Blattner, the Redwood Empire’s longest-running print columnist. When Charmian...
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Mendocino County Today: June 27, 2013
JUST IN FROM THE GUV’S OFFICE: Press release from the governor’s office below: After years of struggle, the US Supreme Court today has made same-sex marriage a reality in California. In light of the...
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Mendocino County Today: June 28, 2013
MENDOCINO COUNTY CLERK ready for same-sex marriages Mendocino County Clerk Sue Ranochak said Wednesday morning that she is fully prepared to issue marriage licenses to same sex couples in Mendocino...
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Mendocino County Today: June 29, 2013
AS A LONG-TIME RESIDENT of America’s intoxicants capitol, Mendocino County, where cannabis, wine grapes, wine, beer, methamphetamine, heroin, and pure delusion reign, local journalists who mount their...
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Mendocino County Today: June 30, 2013
TEN ACRES of dissipation or a political celebration? Dissipation seemed preponderant at San Francisco’s civic center Saturday but, as a child of the 1950s, I’m still adjusting to new realities. I do...
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Mendocino County Today: July 1, 2013
IT’S HOT AND GETTING HOTTER, with temperatures averaging 102 from Boonville east. Sunday, it reached 97 in Mendocino County’s most happening town, which is Boonville, if you absolutely must be told. It...
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Mendocino County Today: July 2, 2013
WILLITS BYPASS PROTESTER Will Parrish, aka Red Tail Hawk, was arrested Monday morning after being cut out of the metal sleeve by which he’d fastened himself some 60 feet above ground on a piece of...
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SUPERIOR COURT JUDGE ANN MOORMAN last week stood up to a brazen attempt by Supervisor Hamburg to rig a court appearance for his troubled son. I know, I know. Fathers and sons, etc. But, as described by...
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Mendocino County Today: July 4, 2013
FIREWORKS EXTRAVAGANZA WEEKEND IS HERE! City of Point Arena invites you to join us in the festivities on Saturday July 6th from 4 p.m. to 10 p.m. in Arena Cove Back to Back Bands! Enjoy Live Music By...
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Mendocino County Today: July 5, 2013
WHAT ABOUT SOME PATRIOTISM FOR AMERICA? A Message to Big Corporations by RALPH NADER The 4th of July is synonymous with patriotism. Tomorrow, all over the country, Americans will congregate to spend...
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Mendocino County Today: July 6, 2013
THE FABULOUS IRONY OF AMERICAN PATRIOTISM July 4 2013 by Jeff Costello Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it. — G.B. Shaw Patriotism is...
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Mendocino County Today: July 7, 2013
WINE TASTING By Howard Belkamp Ramblin’ around this dirty old town Scroungin’ for nickels and dimes Times getting rough I ain’t got enough To buy me a bottle of wine Bottle of wine, fruit of the vine...
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Mendocino County Today: July 8, 2013
OUR SUPERVISORS will hold a closed-door meeting Monday at 11am. The agenda includes three items: labor negotiations and two court cases to be discussed with the county’s legal counsel. The first case...
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WILL PARRISH was released from the County Jail on his own recognizance last Wednesday (July 3rd.) Parrish, also known as Red Tail Hawk, writes on environmental matters for the AVA. He’d been arrested...
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