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Mendocino County Today: Tuesday 12/9/2025

Warming Trend | Oyster Log | Dry Spell | Earline Claunch | Case Unravels | Blattner Memorial | Triple Whippy | Unsolved Murder | New Fund | Brewery Jazz | Picking Mushrooms | Yesterday's Catch | Fawn Stalking | Tramp Steamer | Boat Bombing | Nobody Cares | Snow Shoveling | Kent HOF | Greta Mural | Closing Time | Rotten Apple | Mounted Eagle | Sadistocracy | Enemy #1 | Open Letter | Yantian Port | Leftovers | Lead Stories | Delusions | Nativity Update | Mandatory Palestine | Jerusalem

Exploring Mt. Diablo For Rockhounds

(Please understand the following information was gleaned by a rockhound, not a geologist, I’m trying to condense millions of years of geology into a few paragraphs.) “Where were we when we saw seashell fossils in…

From the Archive (12/4/1985): Here And There In Mendocino County

CHARLES GAINES, noted nutritionist and exercise guru, recently described the physical condition of the typical American child as “scary.” Gaines said that “most ’yuppie’ parents are in terrific shape but their children are fatter and…

Mendocino County Today: Monday 12/8/2025

Basketball Panthers | Generally Dry | Diversions End | Sun Ray | Vineyard Canary | PHAB WIC | Sharkey Art | Save Trees | Film Memories | Local Events | Yesterday's Catch | Nutcracker Performances | Watery Grave | Hairy Fishnuts | Yuga Segue | Busta Move | Dangerous Diablo | Criminal Pardons | City Lights | Notorious Hobbs | Ever Wonder | The Grimace | Ball Poem | Two Dealers | Silent Christmas | Lead Stories | Mother Ship | Hilarious Heggy | War Slut | Fight Cheer | Generic Blues | Master Bedroom | Entrance

Letters 12/8/2025

Wouldn’t it be simpler, and certainly better for Cloverdale, if the Esmeralda folks move into Cloverdale, rather than build a satellite town?…

Mendocino County Today: Sunday 12/7/2025

Partly Cloudy | Priory Prevails | Laytonville Bazaar | Leggett PO | Louis Denny | Remembering Roy | Joshua Russo | AV Events | Public Comment | Pet Chayanne | House Cleaner | Magdalena Homes | Rice Performance | Lou Davis | Going Audio | Old Age | Pearl Survivor | Greenwood 1900 | Young Joy | Yesterday's Catch | Peacekeeper Song | Vietnam Protest | Marco Radio | DC Days | Bikini 68 | ROTR 2026 | Water Export | Vine Removals | Log Trucks | Hungry Kids | Amazon Worker | Join ICE | George Scott | Double Tapping | Can't Happen | Most People | Unnamed Witnesses | Quacks & Frauds | Dream Weapon | Electric Dirt | Perpetual War | Lead Stories | Wild Peace | Kilauea Phytoplankton | Advent Lessons | Riverboat | Preachin' Blues | Old Elm | Anthurium Flower

New Bach, Old Doubts

Bach is back, bigger than ever and just in time for the holiday buying season in this 275th year since his death. The bicenterquasquigenary Bach buzz reached a frenzied fortissimo after last week’s officially sanctioned—not…

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