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Mendocino County Today: Saturday 9/27/2025

Warm & Dry | Westport Construction | Pacific Storm | 6,259 Plants | Recall Effort | Beargrass Earrings | Key Actions | Nitrous Ban | Kai Poma | FCS Concerns | Bring Joy | Evan's Story | Rail Renaissance | Rail Map | Unity Club | Shields Memorial | Song Night | Icehouse Tour | MTC Production | UDJ 1968 | Mendo Manson | UDJ 1969 | Yesterday's Catch | NorCal Resist | White & Black | Pillsbury Dilemma | Prepositioned | Number Homes | 1981 Year | Selling PD | Giants Win | Cruel World | Marco Radio | DC Stehr | Screening Room | Gologorsky Novel | Walter Benjamin | Film Format | Boycott Over | America's Attention | Lost Women | Re-Invade Vietnam | In September | I'm Hooked | False Claims | Truman & Harper | Judgment Days | Reapers | Dorothy Parker | Both Parties | Lead Stories | Aunt Helen

James Joseph Shields

March 1, 1947-September 3, 2025 James Joseph ‘Jim’ Shields, 78, of Laytonville passed away peacefully on Wednesday, September 3, 2025, while working on the latest edition of The Mendocino County Observer newspaper. Jim was born…

Mendocino County Today: Friday 9/26/2025

Sunshine | Space Trash | Public Safety | Burl | EMS Review | Ukiah v San Marin | Madrone Base | Teresa Rauch | Disturbing Consensus | Local Events | MediCal Changes | MendoParks Director | Fish Hatchery | Ed Notes | Bark Peeling | Yesterday's Catch | Belva Davis | The Sun | Spotting Wildfires | Fire Lookout | Elaborate Distraction | Navaratri | Patients Waiting | Great News | Splendid Splinter | Homeschooling Coops | September Ends | Diminished Everything | Bot Censor | Corso Waits | Mass Censorship | Bad Hair | Playing Hardball | Lead Stories | UN Walkout | Comey Indicted | Hegseth Beckons | Comforting Arm | Radical Behavior | Not Long

Mendocino County Today: Thursday 9/25/2025

Warm | Richard Gardiner | Richard Found | Community Priorities | Open-Carry Drinks | CEO Report | Kai Poma | Coop Trouble | Disaster Preparedness | Drum Circle | AVFD 70th | Public Survey | Meeks Celebration | Yesterday's Catch | September Rain | Green Apple | Cricket Friendly | Cut Rates | Giant Cockroaches | Right-Wing Hypocrisy | Vindictive Prosecution | Welcome Democrats | Partisan Rhetoric | Over With | Best Friends | Warming Up | Hippie Days | Giants Win | Wrigley Field | Homelessness Dropping | Adhering | Hearings Postponed | Apostrophes | Forest Service | Climate Promises | Backyard Burial | Gender Vote | Cookie Monster | September 1939 | Greek Resistance | Lead Stories | Patriot Worthy | Gotta Wonder | Dallas Shooting | NYC 1955 | Shared Wall | Stormy Sky

Mendocino County Today: Wednesday 9/24/2025

Cooling | FFA Leadership | Scary Road | Devin Visits | Whippets Progress | Elsie Allen | Strategic Firing | New Judge | Hansen PA | Local Events | Boontworks Meeting | Gerrymander Map | Shields Memorial | Pioneer Walk | Yesterday's Catch | Xpress 1997 | Kirk Implosion | Radical Don | Giants Lose | Oracle Dusk | Fall Boys | Fat Clubs | Appropriate F-Bombs | Riprap | Aha | Mind Prison | Minding Business | Never | Last Meal | Blocking ICE | Gorge | Recognize Berenson | Airport Motel | Fall | Lazy Autumn | Lead Stories | Not Nice | Hate Them | Gaza Contribution | Horrible Feeling

Assignment: Ukiah – Any Problem Can Be Made Worse

There are small but growing problems besetting the county’s Planning and Building Services (PBS) department, an agency that enforces rules and regulations around the county. What’s wrong? An (anonymous) troublemaker has been wallpapering the PBS…

Mendocino County Today: Tuesday 9/23/2025

Warm | Tomatillos | Audit Underway | Kirk Gathering | France Booked | Brent Twoomey | Local Events | No Decision | Oaken Sky | Yesterday's Catch | Salmon Opening | Big-Valley Cattlemen | Book Clubs | Hearing Postponed | MegaMillions Ten | Giants Lose | Modoc & Marin | Mycrow Brewery | Loud Commercials | Kinder Nap | Doctor Fenty | Do Nothing | Quake Mysteries | Mind Numbing | Tramp Steamer | Ave Maria | Milkman/Pieman | Kimmel Return | No Trespassing | Street Thugs | Catalog People | Miss Stein | Bop Bop | Yankee Doodle | Warning Signs | Lead Stories | You Are | Sick World | Covering Gaza | Handbaskets | Ode | Prince Palantir | Checking Price

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