Mendocino County Today: Thursday 10/8/2026
Warm & Dry | Ribbon Cutting | No 44 | Charmaine Marie Hoel | New Owner | Annexation Flop | Yesterday's Catch | Beans & Chilis | Shuttle Confusion | Local Events | Ed Notes | Oust Incumbents |...
View ArticleCounty Notes 10/8/2026
On this week’s board agenda for the Wednesday, October 7 Closed Session (an all-day closed session), Item CS #5 says, “Pursuant to Government Code Section 54957 - Public Employee Appointment - Chief...
View ArticleParty Hearty
Here we go again. Another dubious rape charge, this one stemming from a Cornell University frat party two years ago, has generated wall-to-wall news coverage over the past two days. Just one (male)...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Wednesday 10/7/2026
More Heat | Jimmie & Nora Monday | Code Enforcement | Night Sky | Flood Prep | Free Food | Yesterday's Catch | Froneberger Cred | Property Tax | Gang Workshop | Bellydancing Class | Palace Update...
View ArticleCCO 50
The institution of the city orchestra, once so crucial to musical life, was born in the 18th century. Its players were assembled from university students and assiduous amateurs, aristocrats with time...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Tuesday 10/6/2026
Dry Heat | Sunrise | Ballot Return | Panther Sports | Catching Isaac | Shadows | Willits Knifing | Share Warmth | Yesterday's Catch | AVUSD News | Oyster Light | Banned Books | Nick & Keely |...
View ArticleInterview With A Local Bull Rider
One day while I was at work in Ukiah, the owner of a neighboring car repair shop came in to speak to my co-worker about his car repairs. I overheard him mention that he had…
View ArticleAssignment: Ukiah – Back To School, And Down The Anonymous Diploma Assembly...
It's Back to School days, and everyone is thrilled and excited except for the students and the teachers. And me. Kids are staring into the teeth of eight straight months of hammering boredom in the…
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Monday 10/5/2026
Overcast | Hot | Undelivered | Senior Night | Yesterday's Catch | Gallagher v McGuire | Flock Leaks | Local Events | AI Crash | Pebbles Premiere | Ed Notes | MCOE Training | Pill Cat | Mint Condition...
View ArticleLetters 10/5/2026
I am the Medical Director at Long Valley Health Center in Laytonville, a nonprofit Federally Qualified Health Center that has served North-Central Mendocino County since 1978. Every day I see what it...
View ArticleGeorge White: The Incredible King of Round Valley
George White, one of the first white men to lay eyes on Round Valley, was called by a lot of different names during his colorful life, not all of them fit for print. The one…
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Sunday 10/4/2026
Dry Hot | Chili Winners | Willits Evaluation | Steven Brown | Covelo Stabbing | Yesterday's Catch | Protest Photos | Ramp Closures | Toxics Plan | Property Maintenance | Pet Frizzle | Proposition...
View ArticleAnnouncements 10/4/2026
BILL ALLEN, 1952-2026 William James "Bill" Allen, born in Pepperell, Massachusetts, in 1952, moved to the Anderson Valley in 2003 with his wife Nancy MacLeod and their young daughter Olivia Allen. They...
View ArticleBoonville’s Early Hotels [1995]
The very first hotel built in Anderson Valley was a structure that was called the Anderson House Hotel. It was located at the Valley's first attempt at a town near the junction of Highways 128…
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Saturday 10/3/2026
Hot & Dry | Richard Wade Vaughan | Local Events | Yesterday's Catch | Sheryl Jean Johnson | Prep Football | Senior Night | County Notes | Omphalotus olivascens | Killing Questions | Codpiece Tree...
View ArticleOff the Record 10/3/2026
A NEIGHBOR has a sign in her yard that says, "I knew it was going to be bad, but holy shit!" She posted this lament in Trump's first term, way before he began dismantling the…
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Friday 10/2/2026
Hot Interior | Blue-Meadow Farm | David William Phillips | Water Lines | Flood Risk | Lisa Fern Bates | High-Alcohol DUI | Jeffrey Lloyd Hopper | New CEO | Eckhard Wadewitz | Starr Solar | Local...
View ArticleMendocino Fair And Apple Show 2026
There were some rumors going around that the 2026 Mendocino County Fair and Apple Show was the best ever. Visitors were happy, the buildings looked great and events came off with only one hitch. That…
View ArticleA Chapter From My Sentimental Education
Gore Vidal once characterized the U.S. as “a country evenly divided between political reactionaries and religious maniacs.” Since I fall into neither category, perhaps some explanation is warranted....
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Thursday 10/1/2026
High Pressure | France Guilty | Susana Valencia Ortiz | Interviews Posted | Tribal Dance | Yesterday's Catch | AV Cross-Country | Ed Notes | Fronenberg Affordability | Official Ballots | Laurie Isbell...
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