At the most recent meeting of the Fort Bragg City Council, the board approved the draft of a Strategic Plan, which was based on public feedback from a public strategic planning workshop in July. The plan highlights the priorities and goals for the city and presents strategies for achieving those goals. The council also heard … Read more
Matthew Barnes has been named the new UC Cooperative Extension Director for Lake and Mendocino Counties. Barnes grew up in Lake County and has a strong connection to the community, having been the inaugural director of the Boys and Girls Club of the Pomo Nation and served as director of Lake County’s Upward Bound program. … Read more
State officials were in Willits recently to break ground and mark the beginning of a middle-mile broadband infrastructure project. The project is a part of the 280-mile California Department of Technology-Arcadian Infracom project that will run along Highway 101, part of the 8,000-mile statewide Middle Mile Broadband Project. The project will build open-access Broadband for … Read more
The 4th Annual Cobb Blackberry Cobbler Festival saw about 4,500 in attendance over the weekend. The Cobb Mountain Lions Club sold cobbler and the Kid Zone helped fundraise for Cobb School.
A high-speed chase through Mendocino and Sonoma counties over the weekend saw triple digits before a motorcyclist and rider were stopped. The pursuit began near Healdsburg when a CHP officer tried to stop a Suzuki street bike on northbound U.S. Highway 101. The rider and passenger failed to yield and took off at a high … Read more
The Lake County Board of Supervisors will meet Tuesday morning at 9. It will consider the plans and specs for the remodel of the National Guard Armory to the new Lake County Sheriff’s Administration facility. The board will also authorize the Public Services director to advertise for bids on the estimated $20.7 million project. Then … Read more
The Lake County Registrar of Voters has finalized the list of candidates running in the November 5th election. The full list of seats on the boards of county fire, school, water, hospital, and other districts that are open and that candidates are running for as well as the seats that will not be on the … Read more
The Willits Center for the Arts is looking for individuals to teach Art History in schools in Mendocino County one to three days a month. Training and lesson plans for the “Art Talks” program will be provided. The program serves Pre-K through 12th grades in three towns and a reservation. A seminar is being held … Read more
The Mendocino County Sheriff’s office sent deputies to a home in Potter Valley earlier in the week, where a 46-year-old woman said her boyfriend, 55-year-old Mark Edward Anastasiou had taken her loaded gun, pointed it at her face then took the gun, a cellphone, and other items. Anastasiou was found parked along Eel River and … Read more
A Ukiah man was arrested midweek while he watched a fire he started. The Mendocino County Sheriff’s officer responded to the 2000 block of the McClure Subdivision Road after hearing fire personnel responding to a vegetation fire. When the sergeant arrived, the fire crew was putting out the fire. A man who was said to … Read more