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Mendocino County Today: Friday 2/20/2026

Cold | Snow Covered | Airbnb Scourge | Marcia Missing | Delinquent Taxes | Armando Quevedo | Joseph Smith | Circle Dance | Meet Kevin | Local Events | Scout Hike | Kelley Museum | Holy Weed | Mendocino Outlaws | Yesterday's Catch | Shovel Snow | Martinsville Bridge | Dark Day | Whitewashing History | Hotel/Saloon | Rigged Elections | Craig Willing | This Courtroom | Break Train | World Government | Jonah's Day | Jonah's Poem | Espanol | Wine Shorts | Deny Delta | The Golfer | Gaslit Fans | Looking Glass | Top Model | Midnight | Hinotama | Lead Stories | Spied On | Solidarity Culture | Talking Football | Wild Flashback | Snake Oil | Need Wine | Dostoevsky | Lonesome Journey

Mendo Spends $160K For County Counsel Assessment

Here’s a wonderful expenditure by Mendocino County in a time of tight budgets and unknown bank balances. (We apologize for somehow missing this item back in December when it was buried on the consent calendar…

Special Master Reviewing LaFever Case

More than three months after his arrest by the Ukiah Police Department, local journalist and teacher Matthew P. LaFever has yet to be charged with a crime by the Mendocino County District Attorney’s Office. As…

Mendocino County Today: Thursday 2/19/2026

Cold Morning | Snow 253 | Couple Disappeared | Help Sis | Quarterfinal Bound | Carol Anne Cruise | Open Mic | CEO Wanted | Rudolph Knoop | Percussion Ensemble | Boonville BoontWorks | Alley Dispute | Aureliano Reynoso | Green Talk | Pharmacy Desert | Meet Kevin | Seawolf Winery | Yesterday's Catch | Extra Insurance | Swamp State | Imagine Philanthropy | Palestinian Voices | Dark Chapter | Crow Flies | Jesse Photos | Hope Alive | Dumbing Down | Coach Chatter | Six Strikeouts | Genocide James | Gaby Letter | Derby Gentry | Lead Stories | Idea Sacred | American Dream | Crumb's Dream | Self Pity | Imagine Gods | Wash Day

Teetering On The Brink

A few weeks ago we reported on the County’s Tax Collection Mess, highlighted by the December 2025 State audit report which concluded that “The county estimated that as of December 2025 it had $30.6 million…

Valley People 2/18/2026

AV PANTHERS VARSITY GIRLS ARE PLAYOFF BOUND! We will host Brave Christian on Wednesday, February 18 at 7:00 PM. Tickets must be purchased online… Come pack the stands and support these amazing girls who have…

Mendocino County Today: Wednesday 2/18/2026

Short Break | Thomas Williams | Fatal Crash | Distant Horizon | DNA Match | Homemade Tamales | Catfish Cox | Artist Reception | Alfred Weger | Jesse Headlands | Bridge Builders | Yesterday's Catch | Found Guilty | Tipping Issue | Ignoring Science | Skiers Missing | Nothing Leftovers | Beatniks | Interview | Never Horse | Rogers Commission | Jesse Jackson | Got Famous | Toxic Rush | Effed Up | Helped Jesse | Lead Stories | Restore Britain | Bird Woman | Countering Trump | The Corner

Letters 2/18/2026

Jackson Demonstration State Forest is at a crossroads, and so are we. For years, tribal leaders, local residents, and climate advocates have called for a new direction at JDSF: one centered on restoration, carbon storage, and true tribal cogovernance, not commercial logging on public land…

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