Mendocino County Today: Wednesday 10/14/2026
Warming Trend | Stamped Tin | Noise Polluters | Yesterday's Catch | Proposition Workshop | Stabber Jefferey | Shirley Event | Fairgrounds Improvements | For Marcia | Local Events | Ed Notes | Crybaby...
View ArticleWylackie John: Round Valley’s Original Bad Guy
There are few if any reported instances of Round Valley’s self-described “King” George White displaying altruistic motives of any kind, but he did make a continuing effort over the years of his growing...
View ArticleAssignment: Ukiah – Teach Your Cat To Medicate [2014]
Of all the things you don't want to do in this world, put "Giving Pills to Cats" at the top of your list. Not that there aren't worse things that you might be forced to…
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Tuesday 10/13/2026
Clear Skies | Man Found | Water Emergency | Milky Way | Kidney Needed | Seen Pal? | Women's Endorsements | Flowers | Ed Notes | Meet Matt | Yesterday's Catch | Halloween Movie | Come a'Thistling |...
View ArticleLetters 10/13/2026
The Trump administration is intent on revoking the Roadless Rule, in place since 2001. About 44 million acres of largely undisturbed forest and grasslands are protected by the rule…
View ArticleProposition Workshop Tonight at Fort Bragg Town Hall
Mendo Local Public Media and CalMatters, the nonprofit Sacramento-based newsroom focused on the state legislature, invite you to a proposition workshop tonight at 6:30 p.m. at the Fort Bragg town hall....
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Monday 10/12/2026
Clear Skies | Bill 94 | Yesterday's Catch | Defensible Space | Some Questions | On Sher | Unexplained | For Hart | Infrastructure Matters | Playing Dirty | Ed Notes | Proposition Workshop | Kelp...
View ArticleAnnouncements 10/12/2026
ANDERSON VALLEY UNIFIED, BACK TO SCHOOL, 2026 Don’t you love Boonville in the Fall? The colors are beautiful and so is the weather (mostly)! Anderson Valley students are doing great things and are...
View ArticleMcCarthyism’s Long-Term Insidious Effects
“Who wants yesterday’s papers?” –Mick Jagger Heather Delaney Reese, a travel writer who is now a political influencer, gets two things wrong about the postwar Inquisition. She asserts: “On February 9,...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Sunday 10/11/2026
Coast Clear | Demo Photos | Wildcats Win | Reject Blackbird | Sharon Ann Whiteaker | Yesterday's Catch | Coat Drive | Talmage Murders | Phillip Ray Colvard | Second Stabbing | Catch & Release |...
View ArticleLast Songs
Before the poison began coursing into Christa Pike on Wednesday evening in the Nashville execution chamber, she sang. The melody was unknown to witnesses, but described as “haunting.” The words of the...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Saturday 10/10/2026
Cold Front | Dance Music | Indian Mound? | Kelp-Fest Parade | Candidate Interviews | Guntley Speeder | Homicide/Suicide | Local Events | Blackbird Back | Lake Pillsbury | Palace Comments | Dem...
View ArticleOff the Record 10/10/2026
BOB ABELES: Looking at California Department of Public Health statistics for 2024 (latest year for which final summary data available) for Mendocino County: Births: 836 (2.28/day) Deaths: 895...
View ArticleSheriff Confirms Three Deaths Near Ukiah, Says No Ongoing Threat to Public
Mendocino County Sheriff Matt Kendall confirmed early Friday afternoon that investigators are looking into three deaths following a series of emergency responses in the Ukiah area earlier today. He...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Friday 10/9/2026
YESTERDAY'S HIGHS: Boonville 99°, Ukiah 99°, Covelo 98°, Yorkville 96°, Laytonville 96°, Fort Bragg 60°, Point Arena 55° MUCH MORE SEASONABLE, cooler and moister conditions begin to arrive today with...
View ArticleValley People 10/9/2026
AV CHILI COOK OFF WINNERS Congrats to our Chili Cook Off Winners! Rebekah Toohey 1st place for the second year in a row, Gwynn Gowan 2nd and AVSC’s very own Jessica Walker won third. Thank…
View ArticleThe Latest Anti-Prop 40 Propaganda
The "No on Prop 40" campaign continued its assault on our mailbox yesterday, lobbing in two glossy, four-page, 8.5 x 11" flyers. Both are meant to appeal to the woke-but-easily-lulled California voter....
View ArticleMendocino 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)...
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