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Posts published in September 2025

Mendocino County Today: Tuesday 9/30/2025

More Rain | Great Trails | First Rain | Train Ruling | Board Vacancy | Child Molestation | Dam Dem | Fire & Insurance | October Hues | Chestnut Gathering | Marmosa Chachapoya | Paul McCarthy | Yesterday's Catch | Leavenworth | Kids Today | Rosa | Civil Discourse | Suburbia | Hayduke | EV Carpooling | Curbed | Melvin Dismissed | Niner Flaws | Wine Bribery | Absinthe Drinker | Singin' Rain | Seafood Restaurant | Former Mormon | Softly Assertive | Antifascist Movie | Uncertainty | Jewish Institutions | Contradictions | Walt Whitman | Civil War | myFacts | Unsupine Cows | Lead Stories | Regime Knocking | Gaza Plan | Getting Directions | Great Life | Veil Woman | Age Universe | Ye Many | Peterloo Massacre

Letters 9/30/2025

The treacherous Little River Airport Road is a scary drive, with narrow blind curves, no shoulders and deep ditches on either side.…

1939 Revisited

A few months ago, in honor of the editor's birthday, I scanned in the cover of my paperback "Time Capsule 1939" to contribute as a graphic. The Capsule contained highlights of the year as reported in…

Mendocino County Today: Monday 9/29/2025

Rain | Mendo Cloud | Oregon Smoke | New Track | Little Bigstorm | Katzeff Resigns | Boontworks Meeting | Other Drivers | News Roundup | Chickadee | Never Enough | Community Breakfast | Yesterday's Catch | Yes 50 | Cloverdale Church | CA Counties | Deportables | Selling Out | Network Shame | Giants Win | Niners Lose | Lightnin' Hopkins | Whitey Moon | Bad Writing | Maxim Gorky | Fisk Writings | Impartial Witnesses | Modern Family | Cast Out | Lead Stories | Healthcare Stuck | Oil Monster | Morman Carnage | Go Flow | Murder Mysteries | Stupid Cartoons | Emergent Fascism | Downright Goodfeeling

Valley People 9/29/2025

BOB VAUGHN, popular long-time valley resident and KZYX programmer has died. Correctly described by long-time KZYX programmer Karen Ottoboni as “committed and passionate,” Vaughn often lived hand to mouth, sometimes homeless, but was always upbeat…

Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart

Youth is lousy preparation for old age. Everything boys learn from ages 5 to 30 is likely to result in scores of accidents, dozens of injuries, multiple trips to the emergency room and death by…

Mendocino County Today: Sunday 9/28/2025

Rain Tomorrow | Tree Hazard | Skunk Real | AV Events | Ed Notes | Duck Walk | Not Mentioned | Housing Fund | Pet Caspar | Wildcats Lose | Chevy Van | BS Rules | Bryne's Landing | Public Lands | Coast Guard | Yesterday's Catch | No 50 | Blood Pressure | Test Scores | Wine Shorts | Unknown Vehicle | Marco Radio | DC Reunion | Giants Win | LSD $1 | Hungry AI | Sean Flynn | Everybody Knows | Vera Nabokov | My Dream | AI Armageddon | Blueberry Hill | Last Days | Lead Stories | Biggest Crime | Hurry Dear | Shadow Ticket | Average Man | Sleeping Sailors | In Berlin | Zion Park | Everything Permitted | Do Sober

Sic Transit Gloria Maestro

It’s a tough time to be a star conductor. When the world goes to hell, everyone wants to point the finger at the maestro—at the one whose job it is to point at others. Last…

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