Letters to the Editor
A DEEP BOW Editor & Reed Whittemore, “I hear the loved survivors tell How naught from death could save, Till every sound appears a knell And every spot a grave.” Wrote Abraham Lincon, at 37. Then,...
View ArticleWillits, Weed & Craigslist…
The three Santa Barbara guys recently busted for unloading clones on Craigslist–and for maintaining a grow house in Willits–are in good company. Medical company, of course. Type “marijuana” into Mendo...
View ArticleMendo Justice for Smith & Rexrode
A teacher at the Willits Charter School, Clint Smith, had been sleeping with one of his 15-year-old students for quite some time, carrying on with the child in the presence of adults, at least one of...
View ArticleA Couple of Real Doozies
Bess & James Sanderson Bess and James Sanderson, a young couple with two children, had no visible means of support, not that invisible incomes are unknown in Mendocino County. But even by...
View ArticleLeft Hanging
Last week we left Bess Sanderson hanging at the County Jail. We thought she’d made bail. In fact, she’d hadn’t bailed. She was still hanging Wednesday morning, and she hung for over an hour waiting for...
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CALLER: “Are you guys going to be doing anything on the fire that wiped out Thanksgiving Coffee?” Yup, we’ve got a crack reporter going at it as we meet here today. We were sorry to hear about it,...
View ArticleMargie Handley’s Neighborhood
Marge Handley, the prominent Willits heiress and Republican philanthropist, owns a modest new home in a struggling subdivision off East Hill Road in South Willits called Haehl Creek. Mrs. Handley, 70,...
View ArticleDriving a Red Rental Car Through Willits
The grizzled old philosopher/working man/lifelong confirmed stoner I used to get weed from when I lived in Arcata is being evicted from his sandy little shacked-up trailer in Manila which squats on a...
View ArticleMartin Mileck, Neo Enviro
Ukiah Valley, in water trouble Last Tuesday, with the winter rains early and strong, the Board of Supervisors discussed water. They’ve laid off Roland Sanford, County water guy. You might say this...
View ArticleThe Case of the Ford Focus
Before the child molester put his victim and her mother out of his house, the mother of the victim said they wouldn’t press charges against him if he’d give them a car, a cheap old car, a Ford Focus....
View ArticleThe Best & Worst: Mendocino County 2010!
• Ambulatory Stoner of the Year: Larry Nye, the only Mendocino County person arrested in 2010 for Driving Under Influence of Marijuana. • Petticoat Larcenist: Supervisor Kendall Smith for claiming...
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JERRY BROWN will do what he’s always done. He’ll squeeze services for middle and lower income people, claim he’s going for increased taxes to make up the budget deficit but set his phony taxes up in a...
View ArticleRiver Watch Sues Willits. Again.
A one-man environmental group is suing Willits. Again. The one man is Jack Silver. His solo environmental group is called River Watch. River Watch looks pretty good on paper, with sub-groups and a...
View ArticleI Still Miss My Ex, But My Aim’s Improving
According to the statement Samuel Campos gave the police, the pistol that killed his girlfriend was aimed at the Chihuahua she was holding. The Chihuahua survived and Señor Campos was arrested for...
View ArticleSupes Rubberstamp Brooktrails Scam-A-Rama
As expected, Supervisor John McCowen brought up Mendocino County’s participation in the perpetual sales of “unbuildable” Brooktrails lots to unsuspecting buyers. When these unsuspecting buyers tardily...
View ArticleOne Last Hug
After he’s done maybe ten years in the state pen for voluntary manslaughter, the otherwise law-abiding Samuel Campos will be deported to Mexico. Campos might have happily lived out his days here in...
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IN THE EARLY 1960′s, the Reverend Jim Jones read an article in Esquire magazine that said Belo Horizonte, Brazil, and Mendocino County, America, were the two best places to be during a nuclear...
View ArticleLetters To The Editor
DIALOGUE OF THE DEAF AVA — This is in response to your report on April 20th’s “Neighborhood Wars.” Well named, but misinformed. Mr. McEwen misinterpreted both mine and Mr. Graham’s testimony to a great...
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OPERATION FULL COURT PRESS, the multi-agency, three-week-long pot raid on the Mendocino National Forest was, insiders say, “pretty much a big dog and pony show. Not much in the way of serious arrests....
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MENDOCINO COUNTY DA David Eyster recently dispatched his ace prosecutor, Paul Sequiera, to Mule Creek State Prison for Mark Sprinkle’s parole hearing. Eyster seems to think that Sprinkle is too...
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VERN PIVER died Monday in San Francisco at the UC Hospital. He was 78. I’ll have a full obituary in next week’s paper. A native of Fort Bragg, Vern was among the Mendocino Coast’s best known and most...
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WILLITS CROOKS maybe ought to stay in Willits. Ferndale police officers arrested two men from Willits early Sunday morning inside a bank in Ferndale. Sylvester Loren Vansickle, 56, and Larry Daniel...
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