Coast Notes (May 27, 2020)
FOOD BANKS across the country are groaning under unprecedented demand during the COVID-19 lockdown. The Redwood Empire Food Bank in Santa Rosa,…
Off the Record (May 27, 2020)
MEMORIAL DAY MEMORY. As a kid I always had a paper route. At the time, Frisco published several dailies and plenty of…
County Notes (May 27, 2020)
As predicted, after a few nitpicks about the funding and sequencing, the Board rubberstamped handing over about $1.5 million to “Visit Mendocino”…
Valley People (May 27, 2020)
HEALTH CENTER MANAGER, Chloe Guazzone, told us last week that the Center was conducting "surveillance testing" for the coronavirus in the Anderson…
Fort Bragg Pulls Together
With about a million and a half dollars worth of spending cuts made from its $3.3 million general fund budget — mostly…
Valley People (May 20, 2020)
TURNS OUT the young guy who'd been hired to replace the irreplaceable Jan The Mail Lady on her grueling daily mail delivery…
County Notes (May 20, 2020)
At their Tuesday Board of Supervisors meeting Supervisor John McCowen noted that the Shelter in Place was taking a significant toll on local small businesses…
Off the Record (May 20, 2020)
ACCORDING TO MOODY'S — proved wrong and corrupt in 2008 — J.C. Penney, Rite Aid and Petco are insolvent. J. Crew, which…
Adventists Take Over Coast Hospital
After 49 years as a publicly run enterprise, the Mendocino Coast's only hospital and largest employer was handed over to California's largest…
Supes Notes (May 13, 2020)
Supervisor John Haschak announced Tuesday that Dr. Joseph Iser has been hired as Mendocino County’s new Health Officer. Dr. Iser retired as…
What’s Going On at the Old Grey Whale Inn?
The Redwood Coast Inn is looking shabby these days, but it has a special place in Fort Bragg's heart. Partly that's because,…
Off the Record (May 13, 2020)
ONE MORE PLUG for the fiction of Annie Proulx and her lightest book so far, the comic masterpiece, ‘That Old Ace in…