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Valley People 1/3/2025

RICHARD YATES: Vehicles stranded on Highway 128? Per scanner 128 is closed. Multiple parties stranded due to flooding. Anderson Valley Fire Chief Andres Avila Confirms: Yes, we were dispatched Sunday for a water rescue at…

This? I Do Not Understand These

Things I’m unable to comprehend: Greeting Cards I’ve never understood why greeting cards are so expensive. It’s a folded piece of cardboard with flowers or kittens on the front and inside something deeply deep, like…

Mendocino County Today: 1/2/2025

Mostly Cloudy | Ukiah | 2025 Arrives | Cobb Quake | 2024 Deaths | Spyrock Snow | Sheriff's Message | Cargo Container | Egg Cartons | Another Year | Sako Radio | Tanoak | Ed Notes | Hot Potato | Meteor Shower | Long Plan | Poor Newspaper | Old Philo | Yesterday's Catch | Kamp Estate | Crumb's Mentor | Big Cat | Crying Shame | New Laws | Apache Woman | Lead Stories | Great Question | Medical Advice | Vaccine Controversy | JFK Case | Babe 1934 | Nobel Prize | Distraction | Weird Things | Orleans Portrait

Appreciating 2024; Anticipating 2025

The New Year that was about to happen has now arrived. Worldwide communication fills the air with dire predictions, warnings and laments. It is hard to remember a world in which you had to wait…

Hard Finding The Truth If You Don’t Look

Last week I wrote about how our elected representatives and their staff down in the county seat far too often flummox themselves and disrupt the orderliness of the governing process by creating problems seemingly out…

Mendocino County Today: Wednesday 1/1/2025

Rain Likely | Whoopee! | Past & Present | Color Frond | Theatre Auditions | Balloon Lover | Pop! | Cubbison Affair | Boonville '66 | Information Ahead | Counters Needed | Teach Peace | Ed Notes | Seen Manuel? | Yesterday's Catch | Magritte Cover | 2024/25 | Baseball Ready | Bowl Games | Dennis Peron | Missing Brothers | What Happened? | Drunkest Night | Abandoned Waterpark | Jimmy Carter | Lead Stories | Vax Man | Something's Wrong | Owning Capital | Digging | Before Playstation | Goodbye 2024 | Wino Nestbox | Not Easy | Land Line | Farewell Jimmy | Relieve Pressure | Incoming | New Year

Mistletoe

Why does the presence of mistletoe –a parasitic plant that roots in oaks and other host trees– confer the right to kiss whoever you're with? The answer occurred to John Lee, MD, a family practitioner…

What Happened To Rodney Cole At Coast Hospital (Feb. 2009)

One night, Rodney Cole, age 71, was going about his custodial duties at Coast Hospital, Fort Bragg, when he felt someone watching him. He looked around and saw his idle workmate, a young man of…

Mendocino County Today: Tuesday 12/31/2024

Cold Morning | Eva Johnson | O+ Needed | Quest Continues | Tahja Talk | Pet Van | Forest Floor | Field Trip | Many Saws | Dead Man | Family Picnic | Yesterday's Catch | Absolutely Free | Oz Reveal | Egg Shortage | Beef Cuts | Niners Lose | Kittle Crouch | Game Grades | Sideline Chat | Solar Shift | New AI | Both Listen | Widening 101 | Transportation Modes | Dumbing Down | One Eyed | Not Represented | 7 Seconds | Wonderful Life | Lead Stories | Chet Baker | Continue Funding | Next Time | Our Crime | Your Oppressors | Official Lying | Parisian | Most Underreported | Droning | False Savior | Doctor Luck | Brave Cowboy | Migrant Workers

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