Mendocino 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...
View ArticleUkiah Moves Into The Tree Business
And another, smellier, even more dubious enterprise… (This week, we are turning over our County Notes column to a Ukiah correspondent who has been following the City of Ukiah’s latest proposals…) The...
View ArticleJust One More Day…
Nearly every day now my husband, my son and I stand in morose, helpless thought around BooBoo, our 17-year-old Siamese cat. We are doing this because Booboo is dying, though she probably wonders what the…
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Wednesday 9/30/2026
Treefrog | Warming Trend | Firewood | Skunk Regulated | AV Boosters | Jury Duty | FFA Shirts | 2.25 Babies | Yesterday's Catch | No College | Panther Athletics | Mendo Water | Why White | Ed Notes |...
View ArticleValley People 9/30/2026
EARTHQUAKE IN ANDERSON VALLEY. Friday night. Short low loud rumble like a Harley revving for a few seconds, about 8:42pm, centered a few miles northwest of Boonville, but not in Philo, about 5-6 miles...
View ArticleSymphony Of Bombs: The Presidential Tenor Goes To War At Home
A toxic cloud of concrete and gypsum dust, asbestos, and airborne particulates of glass, cadmium and copper hung over Foggy Bottom. Somewhere beneath the glowing haze sprawled the tangled ruins of a...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Tuesday 9/29/2026
Nearest Star | Inland Warming | Willits Rate-Hikes | Shelf Fungi | Yesterday's Catch | Rogers Q&A | Ed Notes | Typical Responses | Ukiah Football | Inexpensive Price | Candidate Overlap | Sea Rise...
View ArticleOff the Record 9/29/2026
WAS KZYX REALLY SO BROKE THAT THEY HAD TO FIRE THEIR NEWS PERSON? A couple of days ago, MendoLocal News reporter (and former KZYX local news reporter) Elise Cox posted this analysis of KZYX’s finances…
View ArticleImproving Ukiah: A Guide To Recent Progress [2014]
Roughly 30 years ago the Back to the Land hippies took control of Ukiah's city government. What we might have expected from the marijuana-dazed Age of Aquarians was politics involving higher...
View ArticleAriana Found at Ukiah Safeway
On 09/25/2026, the Mendocino County Sheriff's Office Dispatch Center received a call advising that missing person Ariana Arnold had been located at the Safeway in Ukiah, CA. Sheriff's Deputies were...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Monday 9/28/2026
LOCALIZED FROST across wind-sheltered interior valleys early this morning. High pressure builds mid-to-late week, bringing an extended dry period with interior valley high temperatures warming into the...
View ArticleLetters 9/28/2026
I wanted to share with you some exciting news from the state budget. My apology if you are already aware of the earmark of $900k to the County of Mendocino for improvements to the Anderson Valley Fair...
View ArticleHarriet Clark’s Novel Of Incarceration And Liberation
The Hill, Harriet Clark’s new novel of incarceration and liberation, is prefaced with a quotation from Albert Camus: “One must imagine Sisyphus happy,” which might serve as a holy text for pessimists....
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Sunday 9/27/2026
Colder Airmass | Pet Penelope | Albion Hardware | Late Summer | Double Quake | Verna Richardson | Prep Scores | Local Events | Yesterday's Catch | Chili Cook-Off | Best-Ever Fair | Unity Club…
View ArticleCTE Season
The New York Times headline August 25 might be a grabber, but it's misleading. The study's finding is not "alarming." It's not even news –it's additional documentation. The finding –that repeated blows...
View ArticleGloria Steinem’s First Book
I only met Gloria Steinem once, about 25 years ago when a board member at Planned Parenthood in San Francisco and she was our annual gala speaker at the Ritz-Carlton hotel. I was semi-awestruck but…
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Saturday 9/26/2026
Cooler | Philo-Greenwood Bridge | Conserving Water | Criminal Investigation | AV Quake | Treekiah & Skunkweed | Cemetery View | Sher Again | Adventist Waits | Sheriff Misquotes | Ulveling Platform...
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