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Posts published in January 2025

Mendocino County Today: Saturday 1/25/2025

Cold Morning | Daffodils | Moving Water | Music-Fest Jobs | Lake Mendocino | Council Vote | Us Taxpayers | Slow Down | B Missing | Neon Rainbow | Ed Notes | Flowerland | Petit Teton | MendoLatino Stories | Noyo Center | Jonathan Frey | Laundromat Requiem | Local Digs | Charlie & Helen Lelesy | Yesterday's Catch | Fixage | Marco Radio | Community Patch | Saleh Back | Blues Brothers | L.A. Homeless | Clueless Prez | Gorgeous | Forgotten Mutiny | Vote Suppression | Silent Army | Doesn't Erase | Revolution Coming | Kitchen Tables | Cage Fight | Big Hazel | Proud Yanks | Lead Stories | Hitler Salute | Devolution | Great Sorting | Gaza Holocaust

Supervisors Urged To Celebrate Their Excesses, Er, Successes

… “Success” as defined by them, anyway. For two full days this Tuesday and Wednesday the Supervisors gave themselves and their senior staff, the equivalent of participation trophies for mostly doing what they’re supposed to…

Off the Record 1/25/2025

ONE YEAR, I CELEBRATED Martin Luther King’s birthday by paying HBO $46 on a Saturday night to watch Mike Tyson knockout Francois Botha. I’d better say here that I think it’s way past time to…

Mendocino County Today: Friday 1/24/2025

Web | Cold Wind | Machete Man | Bob Canclini | Prelim Continues | Norma Scaramella Iversen Combes | Water Meeting | Jake Wake | Seed Workshop | Navarro Shore | Move On | Ukiah 1937 | Salesman | Ed Notes | Bo Bo | Yesterday's Catch | Ascending | Destroying Farming | Civic Center | Sharing Childbirth | Facebook Addiction | Nonalcoholic Wine | Nancy Green | Deporting People | Dem Contempt | Craptocracy | Assassination Files | Jack & Bob | MAGA Granny | Beach Haven | Don't Worry | Nature Island | Lead Stories | Har Har | Trumpocalypse | Schrodinger Challenge | Quantum Descartes | Caution Mexico | Some Suicides | Camp Grandmother

Cubbison Prelim Carries Over Into Next Week

Two conflicting portrayals of suspended Mendocino County Auditor Chamise Cubbison emerged Thursday during a second day of testimony during a preliminary hearing on criminal charges filed against her and the county’s former Payroll Manager. The…

Valley People 1/24/2025

WES SMOOT MEMORIAL, SATURDAY, 2PM, BOONVILLE FAIRGROUNDS Wes Smoot's Memorial was originally planned to be held at the Rose Room at Anderson Valley Historical Museum on February 1st. It will now be held at the…

Mendocino County Today: Thursday 1/23/2025

Warmer | Decomposers | Antle Testifies | Paz Popped | AV vs Mendo | Campbell Caught | Hideous Mustache | Navarro Cottage | Sampler Fetish | Crab Feeds | P Funds | Death Cafe | State Taxes | Skyhawk Radio | Walking Tour | Cycling Race | Folk Music | Ed Notes | Zones Celebration | JAG Meetings | Road Trip | Yesterday's Catch | Young Cranford | PG&E Love | Water Diversions | Draw! | Weed Report | Aging Richness | Niners DC | We Promise | Acting Shamelessly | Laundry Day | Grandparent Visit | OK Trumpers | Lead Stories | Fetterman Fashion | Billionaires' Row | Don't Shoot | Biden Hustle | Mental Health | International Law | Hatchet Jack | Blue Bouquet | Capitalism

County CEO Testifies At Cubbison Preliminary

The County of Mendocino’s chief executive acknowledged Wednesday that the County’s criminally charged former Payroll Manager worked long hours to single handedly prepare a payroll for 1,200 public employees. CEO Darcie Antle testified that Paula…

Next Time, A Greyhound

I told my wife we’d have to leave early in the morning to catch our flight back to North Carolina, and she shot back a cold, level look. “How early,” she said. It wasn’t a…

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