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Posts published in April 2025

Mendocino County Today: Wednesday 4/30/2025

Warm | Local Events | Water Advisory | Pomo Woman | Can't Help | Spring Flung | Naughty Deputy | Gang Swat | Decaders | Bragg Gardens | Plaza Petition | Phony Story | Pride Arena | No Takeover | Good4Youth Program | Mayday Protest | VFW Fundraiser | Singer Winkle | Rummage Sale | Visual Jazz | Ed Notes | King Apple | Yesterday's Catch | Kidd Hardaway | Insane/Sane | Fragment | Giants Lose | Between Hours | Tariff Repercussions | Delta Burden | Giant Sequoia | Crime Prevention | Mr Cig | Huff Puffs | Knife Caddy | Cascadia Subduction | Nobody Understands | Zodiac Book | Xanax Fun | Charlie Moon | Not Ready | Lead Stories | Pretty Good | Get Schumer | Young Illusions | Johns Flag

Off the Record 4/30/2025

AVA READERS may recall our encounters with the late Yvonne Sligh when she was Mendocino College’s librarian. We clashed with the old girl when she refused to carry the AVA among her many periodicals, few…

Hopeful Signs

Are you ready for some hopeful news? “Hundreds of military children who are students at Defense Department schools across the globe walked out of class Thursday to protest book bans, curriculum changes and restrictions on…

Mendocino County Today: Tuesday 4/29/2025

Mostly Sunny | Fishmas | Lost Wallet | Foodbank Volunteers | Brittany Search | Annexation Challenges | Coast Kayakers | Brooktrails Doge'd | Billy Dock | Water Security | Mayday Protest | Plaza Petition | SS Payment | Bridge Stewards | Piano Duets | First Bridge | Yesterday's Catch | May Day | Mystery Outage | Schlitz Ad | Coordinated Cyberattacks | Grilled Chicken | Careful Speaking | Warriors Win | Billionaire CEO | Kehlani Canceled | Grammar Cactus | Correspondent Outburst | Pronoun Boy | Vacation Mind | Fritzie Zivic | Lead Stories | Maga Beauticians | Old Poop | Meme Coin | Mom's Diner | Woke Liberalism | People Person | United Front | WhiteHouse Discipline | Dem Collapse | Kakistocracy | Anti-Semitism | Silent Massacre | Funeral Blues | Marriage Kiosk

Announcements 4/29/2025

MARY LAURA HOLLIFIELD Mary Laura Hollifield, age 79, of Caddo Gap, passed away on Thursday, April 17, 2025. She was born on March 11, 1946, in Hot Springs. She was the daughter of Burnett Price…

Folks Mingle Easy In These Parts

We were standing in the lobby waiting in the popcorn line, and we noticed a smartly dressed black teenager in front of us. She wore familiar teen couture: distressed jeans so tight she’ll need a…

Mendocino County Today: Monday 4/28/2025

Becoming Sunny | Contrails | PD Sale | Folk Duo | Courthouse Project | Mendo Homeless | Biracial Leaf | Ungoverned Ukiah | Wildflower Show | Boontling Classic | Blocking Comments | Starving Pelicans | Pomo Dance | Yesterday's Catch | Mister Anachronism | Westward Bound | Dreamed Poem | Christian Qualities | Tiger Skull | Running | Giants Win | Superman Curry | Not Here | Beating Nordic | Hurry Dad | Dental Cavities | Bad System | Let's Eat | Empty Promises | Sunday Times | Great Delusion | Bach Hydropower | Grammar Vandal | Candy Mountain | City Busking

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