The 22nd Annual Ukiah Haiku Festival has received over one thousand entries this year. The Festival is sponsored by California Humanities, a non-profit partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities, Art Now International, and Wave Books. North Coast Opportunities is the event’s fiscal sponsor with help from the Mendocino County Library, the City of … Read more
A homemade spear made from a wrought iron fence picket was one of the weapons used in a fight among a large group of juveniles at the Ukiah Skate Park over the weekend. UPD officers responded to the scene to find some using baseball bats and knives as weapons. UPD and Mendocino County Sheriff’s officers … Read more
The Middletown Area Town Hall or MATH will meet Thursday at 6 pm. The earlier meeting time is to allow for a community workshop on the Middletown Area Plan. The group will hear an update on the Middletown Art Center’s Water Basket Project. Members will also consider approving MATH’s proposed response to the Lake County … Read more
Community members and landowners are invited to take part in an in-person workshop put on by the FireScape Mendocino Core Team. The event is scheduled for Thursday, the 25th from 1:30 to 7:30 pm. Attendees will explore ways to help shape experiences on the fire-prone landscape in and around Mendocino National Forest. More information can … Read more
A man who has been a fugitive for more than 30 years who was caught by Ukiah law enforcement last year entered a guilty plea just before he was about to stand trial. Kourosh Sadeghi, a citizen of Iran, had been hiding in plain sight in the Laytonville area. He pleaded no contest to false … Read more
Savings Bank and Integrity Shred are putting on a series of shred events in May. The public is invited to bring up to three 35-pound boxes of documents for secure onsite shredding. There are events scheduled for Lakeport, Willits, Fort Bragg, and Ukiah. Contact Savings Bank for more information.
A Lakeport man has been arrested in connection with a drive-by shooting that killed a Clearlake woman last week. Nathaniel Ladre Hueners was arrested early Monday morning and is being held without bail in the Lake County Jail for shooting and killing Elizabeth Williams. Hueners is due to appear for arraignment in Lake County Superior … Read more
As recruitment for the permanent dean of the Lake County Campus of Woodland Community College, the Yuba Community College District Board of Trustees will meet on Thursday to consider extending the contract of the interim dean, Patricia Barba, who has served in that position since last November. The contract extension would run through November of … Read more
The ongoing saga of Ukiah’s Palace Hotel continues. As recently as 2018, the building was deemed structurally sound and suitable for seismic retrofit. According to TheWillitsNews, the same structural engineering company looked at the building again last year and although it noted a decline in the interior of the building, the company once again said … Read more
Testimony was heard in a preliminary hearing to determine whether the man who abandoned his girlfriend’s two toddlers near train tracks in Ukiah should stand trial for the death of the younger child. Edward Two Feathers Steele is charged with second-degree murder in the death of the 13-month-old boy in August of 2022. He appeared … Read more