I was off the grid in the Mendocino County hills over the weekend — just a couple of ridges over, as it turned out, from the site where former Fort Bragg Mayor Jere Melo was murdered by a gun-toting lunatic pot (or opium?) farmer who had set up shop on land owned by his employer.

The purpose of this post is to point readers to Kym Kemp’s posts on the subject, in case they happen to have missed them. This morning she posts links to the best coverage from around the world — I would especially encourage you to read the thoughts of Melo’s Fort Bragg City Council colleague, Dan Gjerde — but she was also digging up info in real time throughout the weekend.

Police are still looking for Melo’s suspected murderer, an extremely disturbed and disturbing man named Aaron Bassler.

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