Potter Valley News

"Jingle Bells" and other holiday favorites played at the Alex Thomas Plaza Saturday while parents waited patiently in a long line to have their children's picture taken with Santa at Ukiah's annual Small-Town Christmas event.

"My wife calls me the Mad Framer," smiles Castle Skip Newell, as he points out hundreds of photographs lining the walls of the Gambrel-roofed barn on his property in Potter Valley.

The main gate to the 69-acre White Property, located at 28101 N. Highway 1, has been cleared of signs advertising it to be for sale.

Something has gone right in the county's efforts to survive the recent drought. According to Sean White, general manager of the Russian River Flood Control and Water Conservation Improvement District, a concerted effort between the RRFC and other water districts, including the Sonoma County Water Agency, has resulted in a number of changes that ...

Published: Tuesday, November 3, 2009 at 3:00 a.m. Last Modified: Tuesday, November 3, 2009 at 10:47 p.m. Despite record-breaking spending by its supporters, a controversial ballot measure that would have allowed developers to build Mendocino County's largest commercial development without county permission was headed toward apparent defeat late ...

Forrest Leamon, the son of a local couple who was among the 18 Americans killed in Afghanistan last week, was remembered by his family and fellow agents as a man who enjoyed his work and could always be counted on.

Published: Friday, October 30, 2009 at 11:09 a.m. Last Modified: Friday, October 30, 2009 at 11:09 a.m. A Sacramento woman remained hospitalized in serious condition Friday after a crash on Highway 20 in Mendocino County left her and her husband pinned in their pickup under a Freightliner tractor-trailer rig.

Published: Thursday, October 29, 2009 at 6:30 p.m. Last Modified: Thursday, October 29, 2009 at 6:30 p.m. Tons of rotting, putrid whale blubber and meat is being trucked from Fort Bragg to Potter Valley, where it will metamorphose into soil-nourishing fertilizer.

What can be done with 20 to 40 tons of guts and blubber from a dead whale on the Mendocino Coast? Turn it into compost.

No action was taken Tuesday to officially roll back an emergency drought declaration, but there was talk about the year in water and what may happen in the future.

The annual report on Mendocino County agricultural production is typically a fairly routine matter - except for the 1979 crop report, which was anything but routine.

A 38-year-old Potter Valley man is wanted in the killing of a man at about 4 p.m. Friday in Cloverdale, south of the Mendocino County line.

Sonoma County sheriff's deputies are searching for a 38-year-old Mendocino County man who allegedly fatally shot a Cloverdale man at a metal warehouse just north of the city Friday afternoon.

If you were not at PumpkinFest 2009, you might be surprised to know what could be experienced downtown on Saturday.

The Drug Enforcement Administration on Wednesday conducted a raid at the Potter Valley residence of Jim Hill, a marijuana grower who was featured in a July 19 Associated Press article and is also a plaintiff in a lawsuit challenging a Mendocino County marijuana cultivation ordinance.

Pictured above, Arabian horses four-year-old stallion Hukam Maj and one-year-old filly Nausicaa Maj owned by Barbara and Skip Newell of Potter Valley.

A 15-acre brush and grass fire in Redwood Valley led authorities to arrest Spokane, Wash.

"What we've got here is...failure to communicate." That line, delivered by both the protagonist and the antagonist in the classic 1967 film Cool Hand Luke, describes the topcoat of a controversy that made headlines on Sept.

Agents from Mendocino's COMMET team were joined by the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Major Crimes Task Force in an operation that served several search warrants on various locations in northern Mendocino County on Aug.

The Mendocino County Coroner's Office identified the victim of a Saturday rollover in Potter Valley as Guillen Jose Solis, 26.