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Posts published in December 2025

Mendocino County Today: Saturday 12/13/2025

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Fort Bragg Never Disappoints

We enjoyed a glorious Thanksgiving dinner in the tiny but exquisite north coast town of Westport hosted by our friends who are two of only 60 year-round residents. Highway One north to Westport on the…

From the Archive (12/18/1985): Editor’s Desk

YOU HAVE NOTICED by now that our alleged representatives, the people tribunes all look alike. It doesn’t matter whether Democrat or Republican, female or male, they look like a picture I saw once of Dan…

Mendocino County Today: Friday 12/12/2025

Warm | Kit Return | Panthers Advance | Burn Etiquette | Fall Color | Plastic Park | Local Events | Russian Coho | Basketball Scholarship | Boonquiz | Bloom Blast | Navarro Mill | Yesterday's Catch | Lakeport Railroad | Fair Share | Esmeralda Water | Musselwhite Music | 49er Dreams | Control Craving | Wine Shorts | El Lechero | Partisan BS | Press Pushback | Pouring Cement | Trump Riffing | Schank Schmuck | Deep Hypocrisy | Times Credit | Smartphone Spyware | Lead Stories | Automatic Registration | Pale Moon | Father Protector | Love Mystery | Buffalo Bill 's | Wheatfield Crows

‘Accountability Provisions’?

Last week Mendolocal.news reporter Elise Cox broke the unsurprising news that “Mendocino County Supervisors' Approval Rating Stinks.” According to the results of a Mendocino Council of Governments (MCOG) survey to gauge the level of support…

Kidnapping Case Unravels As DA Finds Alleged Plot To Ambush Suspects

An alleged kidnapping and sexual battery reported in October in Fort Bragg unraveled into something entirely different when the Mendocino County District Attorney’s Office reviewed the case ahead of a preliminary hearing. Instead of a…

Mendocino County Today: Thursday 12/11/2025

Warm | Floodgate For Sale | Blood Drive | Theresia Kobler | Plea Bargain | Ruth & Albert Miller | Manslaughter Plea | Planning Commission | GP Mill | Pad One | Local Events | Yesterday's Catch | Dubious Things | Rotary Donors | Rail System | Still Suffering | Jumbo Solstice | Insurance Costs | Best Rest | No Such | Regulatory Capture | Proven Wrong | Holiday Potluck | Newsom Balking | Comedy Show | Delta Threat | Newsom 2028 | Babe Dunsmuir | Kind Fool | Tide Day | Enemies List | It's Me | Silky Hands | Lead Stories | Very Rich | Trump Card | Tanker Seized | Plain Advice

Valley People 12/11/2025

THERESIA KOBLER February 17, 1933 to December 4, 2025 Burial at Evergreen Cemetery Saturday December 13, 2025 at 11:00a.m. Celebration of Life at Scharffenberger Cellars at 12:00 noon. LUIS CHAVEZ: If you need help hauling…

Mendocino County Supervisors’ Approval Rating Stinks

While President Donald Trump’s low approval ratings have recently made national headlines, his worst polling numbers still exceed the approval rating Mendocino County voters give their own Board of Supervisors. That’s according to a new…

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