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Mendocino County Today: Tuesday 9/30/2025

More Rain | Great Trails | First Rain | Train Ruling | Board Vacancy | Child Molestation | Dam Dem | Fire & Insurance | October Hues | Chestnut Gathering | Marmosa Chachapoya | Paul McCarthy | Yesterday's Catch | Leavenworth | Kids Today | Rosa | Civil Discourse | Suburbia | Hayduke | EV Carpooling | Curbed | Melvin Dismissed | Niner Flaws | Wine Bribery | Absinthe Drinker | Singin' Rain | Seafood Restaurant | Former Mormon | Softly Assertive | Antifascist Movie | Uncertainty | Jewish Institutions | Contradictions | Walt Whitman | Civil War | myFacts | Unsupine Cows | Lead Stories | Regime Knocking | Gaza Plan | Getting Directions | Great Life | Veil Woman | Age Universe | Ye Many | Peterloo Massacre

Letters 9/30/2025

The treacherous Little River Airport Road is a scary drive, with narrow blind curves, no shoulders and deep ditches on either side.…

Mendocino County Today: Monday 9/29/2025

Rain | Mendo Cloud | Oregon Smoke | New Track | Little Bigstorm | Katzeff Resigns | Boontworks Meeting | Other Drivers | News Roundup | Chickadee | Never Enough | Community Breakfast | Yesterday's Catch | Yes 50 | Cloverdale Church | CA Counties | Deportables | Selling Out | Network Shame | Giants Win | Niners Lose | Lightnin' Hopkins | Whitey Moon | Bad Writing | Maxim Gorky | Fisk Writings | Impartial Witnesses | Modern Family | Cast Out | Lead Stories | Healthcare Stuck | Oil Monster | Morman Carnage | Go Flow | Murder Mysteries | Stupid Cartoons | Emergent Fascism | Downright Goodfeeling

Valley People 9/29/2025

BOB VAUGHN, popular long-time valley resident and KZYX programmer has died. Correctly described by long-time KZYX programmer Karen Ottoboni as “committed and passionate,” Vaughn often lived hand to mouth, sometimes homeless, but was always upbeat…

Mendocino County Today: Sunday 9/28/2025

Rain Tomorrow | Tree Hazard | Skunk Real | AV Events | Ed Notes | Duck Walk | Not Mentioned | Housing Fund | Pet Caspar | Wildcats Lose | Chevy Van | BS Rules | Bryne's Landing | Public Lands | Coast Guard | Yesterday's Catch | No 50 | Blood Pressure | Test Scores | Wine Shorts | Unknown Vehicle | Marco Radio | DC Reunion | Giants Win | LSD $1 | Hungry AI | Sean Flynn | Everybody Knows | Vera Nabokov | My Dream | AI Armageddon | Blueberry Hill | Last Days | Lead Stories | Biggest Crime | Hurry Dear | Shadow Ticket | Average Man | Sleeping Sailors | In Berlin | Zion Park | Everything Permitted | Do Sober

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

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