Mendocino County Today: July 10, 2013
AS PREVIOUSLY REPORTED, The County Of Mendocino (and Auditor Controller Meredith Ford acting in her official capacity), is being sued by the cities of Ukiah, Fort Bragg and Willits. All counties in...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: July 11, 2013
ASSAULT WITH DEADLY WEAPON CHARGE ADDED TO DUI CASE by Tiffany Revelle The Mendocino County District Attorney’s Office is taking a novel approach in a misdemeanor DUI case where the defendant also...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: July 12, 2013
OUR CONGRESSMAN will be in Belvedere Saturday afternoon. Fresh off challenging his constituents to a photo contest, Mr. Irrelevant will join Nancy Pelosi at a billionaire’s home to raise money for...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: July 13, 2013
AS MANY of the worst men in the world assemble at Bohemian Grove, and the Press Democrat gazes, awestruck, from the prone position the paper instinctively assumes in the presence of power, Cody...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: July 14, 2013
RECOMMENDED READING: “Spy Rock Memories” by Larry Livermore. The Mendocino County literary oeuvre is pretty thin, although there are lots of good writers in our beloved mother county. This book helps...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: July 15, 2013
WILL PARRISH, ace eco-reporter for the AVA, was in court Friday where he learned that DA Eyster has filed “either 16 or 19 misdemeanor charges against me, including a separate ‘Unlawful Entry’ charge...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: July 16, 2013
Hambleton ACCORDING to a Sheriff’s Department press release, Mr. Dana Brandon Hambelton, 30, of Arcata, at approximately 4pm Sunday was southbound on 101 when a deputy “observed” his “non-operational...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: July 17, 2013
A CALLER noticed a full pallet of ammonium phosphate at Friedman Brothers, Ukiah, with a note attached that said, “Special Order, Mateel Community Center.” Why would the Mateel want golf course (and/or...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: July 18, 2013
THIS JUST IN. The Mateel Community Center, Garberville-Redway, has decided not to use ammonium sulfate to green up the grass on their Eel River venue for Reggae on the River....
View ArticleMendocino County Today: July 19, 2013
ANOTHER REASON not to shop at Walgreens. The Starbucks of drug stores is refusing to sell the current edition of Rolling Stone because it has a picture of crazy-boy Boston bomber, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev,...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: July 20, 2013
MOTHER FACES JAIL TIME after allowing toddler access to meth, alcohol. Delvalle A Boonville mother who admitted to allowing her toddler son to ingest life-threatening amounts of methamphetamine and...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: July 21, 2013
RANDOM OPINIONS. I like railroads as much as the next guy, and I see no reason other than the usual pettifogging gangs of career officeholders and time-serving public bureaucrats that a high-speed...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: July 22, 2013
RECOMMENDED READING: “A Colossal Wreck: A Road Trip Through Political Scandal, Corruption and American Culture” by Alexander Cockburn. Cockburn, a frequent visitor to Boonville, was the last of the...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: July 23, 2013
GLASS BEACH: LONG TIME PASSING By Jessica Ehlers Over the weekend the kiddo, who is now the ripe ol’ age of seven and I had some extra time after playing and before dinner. I asked him if he’s like to...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: July 24, 2013
IT’S ALMOST HERE! Not-So-Simple Living Fair 2013 is in just a few days. We’re ready for you, so make your way to the Mendocino County Fairgrounds in Boonville July 26 – 28 (workshops begin at 10am...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: July 25, 2013
WHAT’S BLACK and never works? Decaf, you racist dog! ======================================================== EARLY POLLING shows Hillary Clinton leading the Democratic pack by a wide margin, with a...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: July 26, 2013
BACK IN 2011, the Mendo Board of Supervisors discussed logging the 57 County-owned acres of timber near the Little River Airport. It was a long discussion, a very long discussion, centered around...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: July 27, 2013
A 15-YEAR-OLD runaway from a Los Angeles group home was apparently kidnapped and kept as a sex slave on a Lake County marijuana farm. The Los Angeles Police Department says the girl was taken by Ryan...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: July 28, 2013
THE RECENT WILLITS NEWS editorial about last week’s arrest of the paper’s photographer, Mr. Eberhard, at the Willits Bypass construction site, says the Bypass is needed to relieve the overload on...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: July 29, 2013
ACCORDING to an AP report that claims AP has “exclusive survey data,” (data they paid for) four out of five American adults “struggle with joblessness, near-poverty or reliance on welfare for at least...
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