Comptche News

Audience members and graduates fanned themselves in the hot and nearly-packed Mendocino High School gymnasium during graduation ceremonies Friday night.

Town Hall, the Masonic Hall and the Recreation Center hosted dozens of quilts of many varieties, including the Lightning Complex Fire CVFD by Comptche Women.

This spring the Mendocino High School English and Drama teacher retires from a 32-year-career with the high school which spanned the static and unserious 50s, the social influx of the 60s and 70s and its graduation into the 80s.

The remaining lumber industry on the Mendocino Coast faces widespread job losses as chainsaws fall silent and lumber mills close across the nation.

Born: In Mendocino Sunday morning, March 3, to H. H. Jarvis and wife, a daughter.

The Golden Gate Club was a Mendo scene during today's Taste of Mendocino event. We were bowled over by the 2007 Anthill Farms Pinot Noir-Comptche Ridge: This spicy star anise and cardamom glass had a nice balance of ant-acidity. The un-oaked 2007 Harmonique Chardonnay: ... made by Robert Klindt hit a clean note of green apple while his 2005 ...

We publish below some statistics which have been kindly furnished us by respective proprietors.

The main purpose of my recent trip to California, as I write in this week's Pour column , was to visit pinot noir producers who are trying to make wines of finesse rather than of power.

Potatoes for sale by Wm. Heeser, at one cent per pound. Pictures framed in every style at Johnson's, Lansing street, next to Masonic Hall.

Margaret Fay Macdonald entered this world more than two months premature in a corner of southwest Utah known as Hamlin Valley on July 12, 1922.

On Thursday of last week, at Little Lake, Martin Frost was shot and killed by his nephew, James Frost.

Little Lake firefighters peel the roof from the mangled Honda as CalStar medics stand by with a gurney.