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Mendocino County Today: January 8, 2013
THE NEW BOOK by Stephen Sparks and Mendocino County Sheriff Tom Allman, mentioned in last week’s AVA and reviewed this week — “Out there in the Woods,” an account of the double-murder and ensuing...
View ArticleKZYX & The Invisible Community
Because two previous KZYX Board meetings scheduled for the coast in November and December had been cancelled, I trekked over the hill to Ukiah on December 18th for a long awaited community meeting....
View ArticleThe Curious Case Of The Missing Baseball Pennant
The phone rings. I pick up. “Zack, this is The Goob.” The Goob, aka Daniel Johnston, is my fellow AV Panther from the old days. We were on the baseball team in the 1982-83 school year that had a...
View ArticleTwo Down, Two To Go
Paul Sequiera earned his Mendo stripes last Friday. He already had lots of stripes from his years as a Contra Costa County prosecutor, but as chief prosecutor here in Mendo, it took Sequiera a year to...
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From Murder To Manhunt
The 12-day search for John Wilkes Booth was simpler than the hunt for Aaron Bassler, presumed killer of conservationist Matt Coleman and Fort Bragg City councilman and timberland security agent Jere...
View ArticleWhen Love Has Fled, Better Let It Flee
John A. McCullough is looking at 22-plus years in prison for the kidnapping and battery of his former girl friend, a pretty young woman maybe 20-years-old. I won’t name her in this report at the...
View ArticlePension Plan Blues
During a routine discussion of the County’s investment policy last Tuesday, Supervisor Dan Hamburg, and newly elected Board Chair, repeated his concern that Mendocino County places its money with...
View ArticleThe Insanity Of The Willits Bypass
As with so many places in the American West that have been struck by the flash-flood of capitalist development since the mid-19th century, that which is most absent from the contemporary landscape of...
View ArticleA Foster Father & A Baby’s Death
While authorities still aren’t saying much about the violent death of a 5-month-old baby girl in Fort Bragg, details have come to light about the events that led up to the December tragedy.Subscribe...
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The Angriest Pedestrian Ever
Glenn Hughes, the angriest pedestrian ever. It was the 911 tape that burned Glenn Hughes at his preliminary hearing last year. It also seared everyone in court that day who heard it. A man was being...
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Prisoners Of The Vines
Hello, industrial grape production. When grapes were grown to make vino ordinaire for regular people to drink with dinner, the vine rows were typically seven or eight feet apart for easy access with a...
View ArticleThe Warbler & The Willits Bypass
CalTrans got the go-ahead on January 15th to begin “vegetation removal” on its Highway 101 Bypass route through Little Lake Valley, courtesy of a California Department of Fish and Game memorandum...
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The iPhone As Weapon
Was Mark Sky’s iPhone case really an iPhone case? Or was it a set of brass knuckles? Mendocino County and Humboldt County have a lot in common. In fact, Anderson Valley and Southern Humboldt,...
View ArticleThe Angriest Pedestrian Ever, Take Two
The Glenn Hughes murder trial got underway last Thursday with the jury being sworn in at 10am. After about 20 minutes of jury instructions read by the Honorable Ann Moorman, presiding, Deputy DA...
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Can The Warbler Stop Big Orange?
The Warbler Cometh. A young woman perched high up in large pine tree marked for “topping” at the south end of the Willits bypass route — and a group of about 60 protesters supporting her — apparently...
View ArticleKZYX’s Balance Of Power?
In the world of reporting, one soon realizes that much can be learned from questions not asked — much like its visual counterpart in which the eye perceives a different picture depending on how it...
View ArticleMi Lindo Michoacan
Anderson Valley’s resident Deputy Craig Walker has been spending a lot of time in Ukiah lately because, he says, the sheriff’s office is short deputies. Walker was in court on overtime last week,...
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The Warbler Tree Sit, Week 2
As the first tree sit Mendocino County has seen in perhaps 13 years enters its second week, there appears little indication either that the tree sitter — who goes by the moniker The Warbler — will...
View ArticleRiver Views
In late summer, if you walk west along Madsen Lane in Fort Bragg and follow the dirt road to Madsen’s Hole you can splash across the Noyo River without getting your feet wet. From there it’s a short...
View ArticleHow Not To Get A Search Warrant
Not everyone in Mendocino and Humboldt counties will be broken-hearted to learn that a federal agent has spoiled a promising career by making a false statement under oath to a judge. Will we be saying...
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