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Posts published in August 2025

Letters 8/4/2025

Is it just me, or does it seem as if President Trump is overreacting, even by Trumpian standards, to the Jeffrey Epstein case?...

Mendocino County Today: Sunday 8/3/2025

Cool | Protest Photos | Wild Pursuit | Swine Showmanship | Ambulance Assessing | Bluffing | Ed Notes | Food Hub | Decomposing Pillowcases | Pet Sunny | Village Newsletter | VFW Fundraisers | Remembering Janis | Yesterday's Catch | Favorite Bookcover | Occupational Hazard | One-Legged Gull | Rural Landlines | Not Olympian | Felonious Politicians | Sunlight | Marco Radio | Giants Lose | Big Bimbo | Naked Gun | Colonoscopy Elixir | Not Me | No Revenge | Willa Cather | Fertility Goddess | Erotic Reading | Gaza Prices | Crowd Control | Lead Stories | CA Senators | Starving Ingrates | Chuck Mangione | Net Clap

Upstate New York Opera: Glimmerglass Turns 50

Across most of its four-hundred-year history, opera has been predominantly an urban pursuit. It flourished in Italian cities—Florence, Mantua, Venice, Naples—then was exported to the rest of Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries and…

Mendocino County Today: Saturday 8/2/2025

Sunny | Yellowing | High-Speed Pursuit | Boontstock Today | Insulting Study | Offspring Pizza | Recall Effort | Summer Preschool | Windy Impressions | Fair Alert | Guest Speaker | Writing Workshop | Ledford Dining | California Tribes | PG&E Rates | Oasis Cleaning | Marco Radio | Negative/Positive | Yesterday's Catch | Dead Tourism | Bike Sense | Con Job | Alpine Baseball | Sophie Fever | Team Malaise | Giants Win | SF Jazz | America's Pastime | Chet & Janis | Perdita | Lead Stories | Adam & Eve | CPB Closing | The Bird | Russiagate Cover-Up | Hillary Faces | Hapless NYT | KOCF | Ghastly Window | Chagall Glass

Just Buy 20 New Towels A Week

My dear Trophy of a wife declared we needed to talk, and when she said it her teeth were gritted and her tone was flat. Ominous. I did a quick and guilty fact-check of some…

Mendocino County Today: Friday 8/1/2025

Thunderclouds | Gusty Outflow | City Responds | Guntly Ranch | Disappointing Supes | Berdoo Haircut | Equality Day | Pinches Memorial | Thunderheads | AVFD Annexation | New Map | Cannabis Market | GRT Excitement | Local Events | Anniversary Celebrations | Thistle Blossoms | Mendocino Prohibition | Yesterday's Catch | Branch Remnant | Happy Nostalgia | Wine Shorts | Reggae Week | Spore Prints | Many Esses | Citizen's Claim | Live Oak | Harbor Damage | MTV | Stay Homeless | Giants Trades | Tambourine Vendor | Budget Deficit | Mark & John | Judgment Day | Redwood Decomposing | Zwerg Beating | No Hamburger | Donnie Quixote | Humanitarian Crisis | Slam AIPAC | Intelligent Life | Less Traveled | Lead Stories | AmeriCa | Great Comet | Growing Number | Fortune 1937 | Bernie Busy | On Dunes | Picnic

Memorial Mass Aug. 6 For Sister Jane Kelly

Sister Jane Kelly, an iconic Catholic nun who served the Ukiah Valley for four decades, spent her final years in “pain and prayer,” recalls a fellow member of the Sisters of the Presentation religious order…

Announcements 8/1/2025

LUIS MANUEL CRUZ VASQUEZ (5/19/1969 - 5/23/2025) Luis Manuel Cruz Vasquez, 56, of Anderson Valley, California, passed away on May 23, 2025, at Adventist Health Ukiah Valley after a courageous battle with pancreatic cancer. Luis…

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