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Posts published in August 2025

Valley People 8/5/2025

AV FOOD BANK ACCEPTING EXCESS PRODUCE What excess produce could you donate to the Food Bank? There is still time to deliver it to the AV Grange in Philo. Distribution starts at 2:30pm. The next…

Mendocino County Today: Monday 8/4/2025

Shiva | Last Cool | Lois Steliga | Lake Fire | Mark Memorial | Ed Notes | Aquatic Snake | Court Records | Mendocino Preservation | DA Perks | Eyster Appreciation | Three Rabbiteers | Drum Circle | Yorkville Social | Gnarly Blues | Whose Apple | Yesterday's Catch | Easter Service | PG&E Bills | Reprehensible Senators | Woolworth Menu | Hapless DNC | Picasso Ponders | Wonderful Sunday | Government Question | Shakedown Street | Jerry Garcia | Morning Dew | Giants Win | Coppola Tour | 1938 Evening | PretendLand | News Advice | Willie Pep | Woke Epistle | Loathe All | President Child | Tulips | 18 Inches | Team Swastika | Lead Stories | New Victim | Role Reversal

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

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