Caspar News

The Soquel mobile home park at the center of the county's fight for rent-controlled housing sidestepped another bid by the owner to sell off the parks 147 rental parcels Tuesday.

We learn that not disheartened by the loss of the Julia Ray steam schooner, the enterprising owners will build another and call it the Laguna.

Nobody had time for interviews at the Food Bank last week. Always wildly busy, this was the most frenetic Thanksgiving ever, and the flu had robbed the Food Bank of badly needed hands.

PICS AND CONVERSATION: ' just brings some old feelings back to me when he talks about passion, about women, about life, that I had forgotten about.' -Ralph Portillo, seen at Solo Bar.

Chester reads the Advocate and keeps posted on local affairs. He believes in cement sidewalks, knowing the value they are to a community, and has always upheld us in the fight we have made on this question.

The trek winds into December and beyond, with the group already lining up dates into next March.

Herbert Spencer Thompson passed quietly on Saturday, Oct. 24, 2009, at 90 years of age.

Mr. Ruel Stickney has brought us some apples, the largest of which measures in circumference 16x16 inches and weighs 29 1/2 ounces.

Roger Willenborg, like many residents at Alimur Mobile Home Park, fears he and his family could soon be on the street if the county doesn't win its fight to protect rent control at the Soquel Drive park.

Antone Fernandez of the Lisbon House and John Dougherty, owning the property next are extending the sidewalk from the hotel to the corner of Ukiah and Kasten streets.

The Coroner's Office has identified the body that was found floating in the water on the coast Sunday near Caspar.

In an area as culturally diverse as Mendocino County in Northern California, an event like Halloween morphs into a greater focus on the traditional Mexican celebration of " Dia de los Muertos" . Activities celebrate and honor relatives and loved ones who have died.

Benjamin Paynter, brother of Mrs. Albert Brown, and Edward Grindle, left last week on their return home.

On Saturday afternoon while sitting in Dick's Bar, a dive in Mendocino , the Tracker fell into conversation with a broadly-informed man from nearby Caspar named Thomas.

We clip the following from the Brooklyn Eagle. Our contemporary's informant has got things a little mixed up.

The daughters of Mr. Silas Coombs of Little River left by steamer yesterday to resume their studies at Mills Seminary.

The daughters of Mr. Silas Coombs of Little River left by steamer yesterday to resume their studies at Mills Seminary.

The county Department of Transportation, the Mendocino Solid Waste Management Authority and representatives of the county's two private sector solid waste haulers, Solid Wastes of Willits and Empire Waste Management, Inc., will explore the potential benefits of privatizing operation of the county's six small transfer stations, as well as turning ...

In 2005, the US military missed its enlistment targets by the largest margin since 1979.

The Alliez, a reggae rock band from Maui, Hawaii featuring local guitarist Brian Sykes from Southern Humboldt, will make several Humboldt County appearances in the next few weeks.