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Posts published in April 2025

Valley People 4/28/2025

CATHETER BLUES Late Wednesday afternoon I had to make a run for the Emergency Room at Marin General Hospital where my mother worked as an RN when it first opened. The hospital, now a mammoth…

Political Flashback

The removal of 381 books from the US Naval Academy Nimitz library last week was flashback-inducing for your correspondent. When Sen. Joseph McCarthy was at the peak of his power in March, 1953, Dashiell Hammett…

Mendocino County Today: Sunday 4/27/2025

Decreasing Clouds | FB Protest | Souza Found | Kleppe Missing | Courthouse Begins | Local Events | AVUSD News | Four Dogs | Pinot Fest | Weeping Mulberry | Ed Notes | Leaf Caught | Yesterday's Catch | Mid 80s | Marco Radio | Coffee & Cannabis | Warriors Win | Giants Win | Attitude Problem | Climate Costs | Artist Perri | Railroad Car | Low-Info Voting | Lead Stories | Judge Arrested | Higher Learning | Trump's Circle | National Bestseller | Girlfriend Experience | Poison Food | Tooth Decay | Crazy Days | Khe Sanh

Construction Begins On $144 Million Courthouse

A $144 million new Mendocino County Courthouse in Ukiah is rising alongside railroad tracks crossing Perkins Street, the main corridor that links the commercial core of Ukiah to the Highway 101 freeway. A formal dedication…

Wind Work

If the organ is the King of Instruments, its monarchy is built on deception. The largest, most technologically complicated, most tonally diverse, and most visually stunning of musical objects, the organ was often held to…

Mendocino County Today: Saturday 4/26/2025

Showers | Souza Missing | Mayor Allman | Prescribed Burn | Barrel Dumping | Memorial Service | Flynn Chat | Big Sticky | Pension Funding | Plant Sale | Circle Dance | Glass Menagerie | Bridge Work | Speakeasy Soiree | Family Softball | Noyo Race | Left Heart | Yesterday's Catch | Richardson Crystals | Dead Moth | Derwinski Poems | Marco Radio | Policy Coverage | Giants Lose | Funny Name | Medi-Cal Funding | Parking Posts | NOAA Cuts | Candidate Hilton | 1866 Migrants | Be Alcoholic | Working Man | Dehydrated Water | You're Welcome | Lead Stories | Stoopid Question | American Jacobins | Peace Plan | Adolf Dinner | Last Step | Political Science | Our Home

Letters 4/26/2025

No Sane Person Would Want To Be Annexed Into The City Of Ukiah. Protest… Protest… Protest… Just Say No. Most in the area to be annexed have the Sheriff’s Dept. Wells, Other Water Districts, Septic Tanks, and PG&E…

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