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Mendocino County Today: July 16, 2013

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…

Mendocino 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…

Mendocino 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…

Mendocino 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…

Mendocino 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…

Letters To The Editor

DC NONSENSE Editor, The nonsense going on in Washington these days keeps making me think that we are living in a completely broken, nonfunctional state;…

Mendocino 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…

Wine Tasting

It was around 1978 when I had my first and only Northern California “wine-tasting” experience. We were driving north to Willits, to visit Jim Gibbons, the poet, athlete, sportswriter and all-around not-very-nice person who was busy becoming famous for being able to run long distances without dropping dead, and for writing stories offensive enough to get him fired from certain positions in the local education establishment.

Off The Record

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,…

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