Piercy News

After surviving the Japanese bombing of Clark Air Base, the Bataan Death March and nearly four years of captivity as a POW in the Philippines and northern Japan, John M. Real said, some of the first Americans he saw after World War II ended were members of the Salvation Army.

The site first proposed for the infamous duel in 1804 of Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton was what is today San Anselmo.

A routine traffic stop in Redway late Saturday night resulted in a pair of narcotics arrests.

A 39-year-old Piercy man who pleaded guilty to possession of marijuana for sale in an alleged Bell Springs Road marijuana deal in April was arrested by police a second time in Fort Bragg last week.

A routine traffic stop in Redway late Saturday night resulted in a pair of narcotics arrests.

A case against eight people suspected to have been involved in transactions involving $99,000 and 20 pounds of marijuana has several hearings set for early November in Mendocino County Superior Court.

The Mendocino Major Crimes Task Force was called to the Piercy area Thursday to investigate a Eureka man the California Highway Patrol suspected was selling methamphetamine.

Dimmick Ranch issued a press release on Thursday of last week announcing that they had made the final court-ordered payment of $50,000 to the Mateel Community Center.

It's a feat that's brought tears to the eyes of Sacramento bureaucrats, local educators and proud parents: A whopping 100 percent of Serrano High School's roughly 500 graduating seniors have accepted their diplomas with plans to go on to post-secondary education or the military for the past two years.

2. Thomas Carter helps a customer at the Fuente Nueva Charter School tamale booth at the Reggae Rising music festival Sunday.

Reggae Rising began Friday morning, July 31, at Dimmick Ranch in Piercy in the same venue it has held for the past four years.

2. Thomas Carter helps a customer at the Fuente Nueva Charter School tamale booth at the Reggae Rising music festival Sunday.

Call Stephanie Taylor at 707-764-3091 for more information. * The Alliez, reggae rock from Maui, Hawaii, play an all-ages show at the Peg House in Leggett.

French's Camp, adjacent to Route 101, approximately 10 miles south of Garberville, near the Humboldt-Mendocino county line, will be the site for next weekend's Reggae Rising concert.

* Dinner by the River, Restaurant Skills graduation caf, 6 p.m. in the backstage grove at Benbow Lake State Recreation Area.

Dimmick Ranch in association with the County Line Foundation presents "Live On The County Line" featuring Grammy Award Winner Dwight Yoakam in an unprecedented, one night only, country music festival on Saturday, August 29, at the Dimmick Ranch in Piercy.

Plus Kelly Willis, John Doe & the Sadies, Wanda Jackson and I See Hawks In LA SAN FRANCISCO, July 9 SAN FRANCISCO , /PRNewswire/ -- Dimmick Ranch in association with the County Line Foundation presents Live On The County Line featuring Grammy Award Winner Dwight Yoakam in an unprecedented, one night only, country music festival on Saturday, August ...

Fieldbrook Fire Department Chief Richard Grissom will be in charge of fire protection inside the 2009 Reggae Rising festival, according to David Moss, speaking on behalf of Dimmick Ranch.

Sober grad party follows beginning at 10:30 p.m. More details to be announced. * Redwood Run in Piercy.

The promoters of Reggae Rising got approval from the Humboldt County Planning Commission to continue with their annual Reggae Rising three-day concert on the first weekend in August and to fold the end-of-August Willie Nelson concert into the existing Conditional Use Permit for the next six years.