NEWSBREAK ORIGINAL

Willits Skunk Train Depot is a step back in time for me. my mother took me here many times in my youth. I have a picture of me from 1976 standing in front of the train. I would ride the steam train from Fort Bragg to Willits and back. On our way to Seattle, we had to stop by the Willits Depot to walk around the train yard. Enjoy my short walk down memory lane.

Opinion: A Willits man named Bryan Petersen filmed a movie in Willits & Ukiah called "Wrecker 2022" about an emotionally scarred man who became disappointed in the US justice system & had turned into a vigilante. According to an article published in the Ukiah Daily Journal, 'Mendocino Film Festival' rejected his film.

A murder that took place in a northern California park almost forty years ago has finally been solved in the charging of a man with murder after DNA linked him to the brutal beating of a woman who was left to die.

Tuesday afternoon, the Lakeport Unified School District community faced a challenging situation as a medical emergency unfolded on campus, prompting a response from school employees and Emergency Medical Services, police said. The incident, marked by symptoms indicative of a chemical overdose or poisoning, is now under investigation by the Lakeport Police Department.