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Latest News
- Mendocino Cannabis Alliance Launches Pledge of Alliance Drive and the First Mendocino Cannabis Advocacy Awards
- [UPDATES]A Big Rig Collides with a Service Truck Blocking Highway 101 Between Ukiah and Hopland
- It’s Back to School Time, Ukiah! Stay Alert, Drive Safely, and Keep Our Kids Safe
- Rohnert Park Man Sentenced to Life in Prison for Molesting Minors
- As the Laytonville Public Library Takes Shape, Residents are Invited to the Pop-Up Library
- Point Arena’s Good Buy Clothes Donates Over $25,000 to Local Non-Profits Between 2021-2022
- Fatal Motorcycle Collision With Vehicle Closes Southbound Talmadge Exit at Ukiah
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- Three Fresno Men Booked After Deputies Find Them With Ten Pounds of Marijuana
- Where’s This Smoke Coming From? The Six Rivers Lightning Complex Fire in Humboldt and Trinity Counties
- Hopland Cemetery: The Struggle to Preserve and Persevere
- County of Mendocino Seeks Input from Fire Survivors About Disaster Recovery Efforts
- Quad Accident in Brooktrails This Evening Results in Major Injury
- [UPDATE: Forward Progress Stopped]Vegetation Fire Threatening Structures Near Round Valley Elementary School
- Two with Major Injuries, One Accused of DUI After Yesterday’s Head-On Collision Near Leggett
- Minor Earthquake Rattles Willits
- MCSO: Found with Drugs, Glass Pipe, and Handgun, Willits Man Proceeds to Bring Drugs Into County Jail
- How Serious is the County’s Alleged Fiscal Crunch, and Who is to be Believed? Who Knows—Op-Ed
- Environmental Crimes Discovered at Bell Springs Cannabis Grow—1,423 Plants Eradicated
- Reduction in Cannabis Gardens, Potter Valley Project and Water Security, PG&E Tree Trimming—Highlights from the Redwood Valley MAC Meeting
- Rock Out with Cat Mother Tonight in Caspar
- Males And Females Talking, Stripped And Abandoned Vehicle – Fort Bragg Police Logs 08.11.2022
- Female Whispering on 911, Male Urinating In Store – Ukiah Police Logs 08.11.2022
- [UPDATES]Two Vehicle Collision Near Leggett—One Trapped, Another with Significant Injuries
- 66-Year-Old Willits Woman Dies in Car Accident Along Sherwood Road
- Small Vegetation Fire Flares Up Near Ukiah’s Water Treatment Plant
- Morning Shooting Near Fort Bragg Results in Fatality—Detectives Investigating
- Driver Booked for DUI After Smashing Through the Front of an Empty Laytonville Building
- Fatal Crash in Colusa County Closes Highway 20
Fire
Small Vegetation Fire Flares Up Near Ukiah’s Water Treatment Plant
The Incident Commander reported that the fire is a “small spot” 50’x50′ in size burning at a slow rate of spread in grass.
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Multiple Burning Vehicles in Kelseyville Ignite Nearby Vegetation
At approximately 1:30 p.m. the #PharoFire began burning in the Lake County community of Kelseyville engulfing cars, boats, and RVs in flames that would then spark nearby vegetation.
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Trailer Fire on Ukiah’s Talmage Road Deemed Suspicious and Human-Caused
This suspicious fire comes just three weeks after another fire identified as suspicious in nature destroyed two vehicles on the same block of Talmage Road.
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Washington Woman Admits to Law Enforcement She Sparked Yesterday’s Ogulin Fire in Clearlake
An eyewitness also came forward and told deputies he had been driving along Highway 53 and watched Smith walking away from the fire moments after it had ignited.
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Crime
MCSO: Found with Drugs, Glass Pipe, and Handgun, Willits Man Proceeds to Bring Drugs Into County Jail
“The handgun was found to be loaded with one live round in the chamber and three more in the magazine. Also in the vehicle were binoculars, bolt cutters, wire cutters, and a game camera.”
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Environmental Crimes Discovered at Bell Springs Cannabis Grow—1,423 Plants Eradicated
“In this case, no county permit or state license to cultivate commercial cannabis had been issued.”
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Morning Shooting Near Fort Bragg Results in Fatality—Detectives Investigating
Captain Van Patten told us the shooting reportedly occurred around 6:05 a.m. on Highway 20 near Fort Bragg. The shooting victim was “self-transported” to a nearby hospital and was “pronounced dead thereafter.”
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Driver Booked for DUI After Smashing Through the Front of an Empty Laytonville Building
A driver has been arrested for driving under the influence this morning after missing a turn which resulted in a collision with an empty storefront.
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Cannabis
CDFW And Mendocino County Team Up To Hold Cannabis Technical Assistance Workshop Series
“It’s great to be partnering with Mendocino County to help cultivators through the permitting and licensing process.”
While Cultivators Struggle in the Legal Market, Mendocino County’s Cannabis Grant Funding is Caught in Red Tape
“The results of that, unfortunately, have been that some operators have been in this application process since February of last year, counting on these funds to help them move forward in this incredibly challenging business at this incredibly challenging time.”
Visit Mendocino County Taps Into $1.7 Billion U.S. Cannabis Tourism Niche
“Just as wine turned California into a tourism hotspot, legal cannabis and tourism-related experiences are certain to blow the roof off.”
‘Building the Airplane While It’s Flying’—Mendocino Grand Jury Assesses the Cannabis Equity Grant Program
“The applicants for these grants are those who were in the medical or illegal market, suffered for it, and are now attempting to grow their businesses for the future in a legal environment.”
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COVID-19
During the Month of July, Three More Mendocino County Residents Died With COVID-19
Though communities have seen mask mandates and strict pandemic protocols recede, the SARS-CoV-2 virus continues to circulate.
Five Mendocino County Residents Passed Away With COVID-19 Between May and June
Data from the California COVID-19 county dashboard does point towards an uptick in Mendocino County’s total COVID-19 cases, deaths, and hospitalizations during May and June. Though, all three of those metrics seem to be trending downward in the first weeks of July.
Mendocino County: The CDC Says You Should Wear Your Mask Indoors Once Again
Other suggested precautions include staying six feet away from others, avoiding crowds, poorly ventilated spaces, and washing your hands often.
Did You Attend the Fort Bragg City Council Meeting on Monday? Consider Taking a COVID-19 Test
“The City has been notified of an attendee of the recent City Council meeting that tested positive yesterday.”
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MendoHistory
MendoThrowback: An Interview With a Pomo Basket Weaver—The ‘Best Baskets Are Buried With the Dead’
Clara Williams was born in 1883 and grew to master Pomo basketry. When the Ukiah Daily Journal interviewed her in 1955, she spoke of being one of the last Pomo basket weavers left.
A Look Back at the Ebbs and Flows of Mendocino County’s Skateboarding Scene
“Oh gosh, skateboarding and Mendocino County… For the most part, especially back in the ’80s, there was a definite love-hate relationship between kids, adults, police and city council folk in the three major towns: Willits, Ukiah and Fort Bragg.”
How the Death of Fifteen Firefighters in the Mendocino National Forest Sowed the Seeds of Today’s Firefighting Aircrafts
“The important thing about the original air tanker operation was its enthusiasm. The conviction that “this idea will work” spread from the dozen or so pilots to the Forest Service and state people, who call the pilots back, again and again, to help put out fires all over the state.”
‘Defend Against All Enemies’: When Nativism and Moral Panic Fueled the Rise of the Ku Klux Klan in Mendocino County
The 1920s would see hundreds of Mendocino County residents don white robes, attend initiation ceremonies, and gaze upon burning crosses glowing in the hills above Willits, Ukiah, Fort Bragg, and other areas.
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