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The Warbler, Clayton Duncan & Kendall Jackson
This is a round-up of the latest developments regarding three major stories I’ve been writing about for the Anderson Valley Advertiser in the last few years. First is the latest regarding the dramatic...
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Mendocino County Today: February 18, 2013
HUMBOLDT COUNTY POLICE recently found a small cave filled with more than 100 firearms, 117 pounds of marijuana, stolen vehicles and $12,000 in cash. The diverse cache was unearthed on the 55-acre...
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Last Wednesday, the 13th, I plunked down $16.95 at the Mendocino Book Co. on School Street in Ukiah for your book, Teach Your Dog to Shoplift, along with another $7.40 for two over-priced Valentine’s...
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A couple of weeks ago this column took the Sierra Club to task for stating that wolves kill no more than the small amount of cattle that vultures, or buzzards, do. Let me make this clear again for any...
View ArticleThe Revenge Of The Coke Machine
Robert S. Sherman is a Point Arena auto mechanic sentenced to the County Jail for selling stolen property. Sherman was arrested when he boldly appropriated a water tank from the Elk Fire Department and...
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Mendocino County Today: February 21, 2013
SNOW ON THE HILLS Tuesday afternoon broke up the blandly balmy previous two weeks of summer-like days. At the higher elevations Hull Mountain to the east and the Yolly Bollys, snow could be measured by...
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Mendocino County Today: February 22, 2013
WITH AUDITS LIKE THESE… by Mark Scaramella With great fanfare last July, Governor Jerry Brown launched an “investigation” into “the circumstances surrounding significant budgetary irregularities at the...
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Mendocino County Today: February 25, 2013
THE STATE JUDICIAL COUNCIL has put off funding the new Mendocino County Courthouse for another year, fiscal year 2014-15 to be exact. The money for a new courthouse in Ukiah keeps getting diverted into...
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Mendocino County Today: February 26, 2013
LOOK FOR A LIVELY pro-gun rally in front of the County Courthouse this Friday at 5pm. Organizer Dan Kuny said Monday, “We’re not with any organized group. Just local, law-abiding people angry about how...
View ArticleTrial By Ambush & The Stealth Juror
It was the first pot case to go to jury trial in years, and the views attending it were predictable. The first juror called said, “In my opinion, no pot case should be court — it’s a waste of time and...
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With great fanfare last July, Governor Jerry Brown launched an “investigation” into “the circumstances surrounding significant budgetary irregularities at the California Department of Parks and...
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Ever since The Warbler rigged herself to a rope and harness in the early morning of January 28, then hoisted herself precisely 71 feet high into a ponderosa pine tree slated for chainsawing by...
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Mendocino County Today: February 27, 2013
Skaggs REMEMBER CHRISTOPHER SKAGGS? He piled into a redwood at Navarro last November after a high speed chase that resulted in an officer being flown to an out of the area hospital for the injuries he...
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Mendocino County Today: March 1, 2013
FUGITIVE SURRENDERS to MCSO at Ukiah hotel after a stand-off with the Mendocino County Sheriff’s. — Miller After a two-day search, authorities on Wednesday arrested Walter Kristopher Miller, 42, of...
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Mendocino County Today: March 2, 2013
WILLITS BYPASS: You know, for the entire 40 years or so that I have been lucky to call this county home, I’ve been struck by the absurdity of the perpetual traffic jam on 101 as it passes through...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: March 4, 2013
A READER WRITES: “Bruce McEwen’s account of DA Eyster’s prosecution of Ms. LaValle was a good read, as always, but the conclusion that ‘bringing a pot case into court is a waste of time and money,’...
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Mendocino County Today: March 5, 2013
GETTING RID OF ROSE (Milton’s Welfare) by Debra Keipp Della is one of a handful of women who ride horses in Point Arena. I’m one, too. We walk some, ride some, enjoying the town and exchanging friendly...
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Report War Crimes, Go To Jail
Veterans For Peace in Ukiah. A ripple of cynical laughter went through the 50 attendees of a recent Northern California Regional meeting of Veterans For Peace (VFP) in Ukiah when they were extolled to...
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On January 7th Fort Bragg police officer Craig Guydan pulled his gun on a group of teens, who turned out to be playing football on the street. Reportedly, Guydan kept the weapon pointed earthward while...
View ArticleProtests Keep CalTrans At Bay
Had it not been for a direct action last week by supporters of The Warbler’s tree sit south of Willits, this would have been the week CalTrans and its contractors dispatched crews with chainsaws and...
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