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Mendocino County Today: Saturday, August 20, 2022

Inland Heat | Ed Notes | Caspar Concert | Fire-Chief's Report | Team Nozall | JDSF Vision | Pink Ladies | Suspicious Fires | Tiny Homes | Violation Notice | Mendo Mill | Search & Rescue | Worst Story | Samson Sentenced | Chance Meeting | Yesterday's Catch | People's Park | Chickens Grace | Grotesque Shadows | Serious Question | Pigeon Girl | Hothouse Earth | Marilyn's Caddy | Rethink Racing | Debt Slaves | SF Horrors | Ethical Doctors | Bob & Joe | Rushdie Cause | Dog On | Candidates Climate | Land Backer | Marco Radio

Dave Smith Has Died

DAVE SMITH, the popular and well-known Ukiah raconteur, bookstore owner, and writer, has died. Friends found him dead in his post-op hospital bed Friday morning as he was recovering from seemingly routine hernia surgery. There…

Mendocino County Today: Friday, August 19, 2022

High Pressure | Anita Launch | Apple Update | Dorr Bothwell | Elk Day | Book Talk | Measure P | Librarian Melissa | Seeking Housing | AVUSD Candidates | Film Screening | Fair Moon | Ed Notes | Four Quilters | Vineyard Controversy | Escola Boys | Hopland Cemetery | Treasure Hunters | FERC Lawsuit | Silveria Couple | Bell Bust | 'Twas I | Magic Ranchers | Huff's Wall | Yesterday's Catch | Winter Flight | Nuclear Bailout | Season 2 | Ukraine | Walk Gently | Status Quo | Missing Pronouns | Comments | Hialeah Indians | Newspaper Killers | Rich Economy | Baseball Inequality | Pitfall

Mendocino County Today: Thursday, August 18, 2022

Slight Cooling | County Workers | 11 Candidates | Antone Lemos | Skunk Schooled | Blackberry Festival | Mechanics Class | Quong Kids | Haschak Take | Shipwreck Survivors | Yesterday's Comments | Bunyan Returns | Steele Release | Hilda Lyons | Ed Notes | Tippett Statement | Silas Coombs | Elusive Link | Reno Example | Yesterday's Catch | Dead Fish | Jay Frankston | Book Readers | California Lightning | Oakland Camp | Crazy Juice | Freeloading Bums | Hey McCloud | Complicated Geometry | Ukraine | Corinthian Helmets | Sir Trumpalot | The Life

Letters (August 18, 2022)

Is it just me? I drove down Franklin Street in Fort Bragg this morning on my way to work and I couldn't help but take note of all the empty storefronts.…

Mendocino County Today: Wednesday, August 17, 2022

Hot Lightning | Quiz Night | Fungi | County Notes | Tramp Steamer | Clarity Please | Motorcycle Fatality | Buckey Walter | Hendy Hermit | Mendocino City | Ed Notes | Hopkins Anniversary | Mendo Geology | Grayview House | Code Enforcement | Grayhouse Garden | Candidate Tippett | Big River Mill | Library Fiber | Better Link | Forest Skunk | Dump Week | Big River Bridge | Dem Picnic | John Marsan | 4th Dimension | Yesterday's Catch | Airbnb Nuisance | Farmworkers March | Zombie Nation | Pollen | Untie Her | Say What? | Chess Moves | Nazi Collaborator | State Television | Life Leaf | Free Speech

Off the Record (August 17, 2022)

LAST WEEK, a lead story in the Press Democrat featured the pathetic soul pictured at right as a “sexually violent predator” paroled to Boyes Hot Springs. The headline suggested that the 62-year-old would be rampaging…

Valley People (August 17, 2022)

A TERRIBLE RUMOR had been circulating over the weekend that Theron Miller had been found dead in his hometown of Albion. The rumor is true, Theron, 48, is dead, cause of death to be confirmed…

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