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Off the Record 8/20/2025

MIKE GENIELLA: A dozen nuns from the Sisters of the Presentation order in San Francisco arrived by charter bus Wednesday to attend a Memorial Mass for Sister Jane Kelly at St. Mary in Ukiah. After…

Das Vedanya

The two Russian guys were in their 40s and both spoke perfect English, but other than that they were the odd couple. Gennady Alferenko was lithe, charming, funny and energetic. He had come to America…

Mendocino County Today: Tuesday 8/19/2025

Warming | Dawn Sky | Cash-Flow Problem | Chaon Flips | Gaska Elected | Eyster's Reply | Lavender Bumblebee | Williams' Response | Homicide Hearings | Fern Shadow | Fentanyl Murder | BSVFD Fundraiser | MCN Thoughts | Fair Entries | Great Day | Alder Creek | Yesterday's Catch | Klamath Bridge | Family Violence | Popular Rule | Lost Fish | Daily Reminder | Estate Tax | Doesn't Matter | Righteous Population | Singing Bhajans | Healdsburg Resistance | Oil Lobby | Against Us | Giants Win | Greaseless Doughnut | Even Dowd | Joseph Brodsky | Blue Bowl | Park Coyotes | Ugly Bill | Lead Stories | Rogue CIA | Past Directors | Ukraine Talks | Sixpence Moon | To Journalists | Exact Moment | Plausible Deniability | Unmaking Humanity | Bad Living

Letters 8/19/2025

AT&T wants to eliminate copper landlines through Assembly Bill 470. I think many Mendo residents would agree that landlines are essential infrastructure…

Mendocino County Today: Monday 8/18/2025

Pleasant Day | AVUSD News | Todd Grove | Six Weeks | Karolee Adrift | No Leads | Boonville Music | White Borage | Albion Headlands | Comfy | Misty Cliffs | Bare Branches | Water/Gasoline | Yesterday's Catch | Boycott Chevron | Giants Win | Low Tide | SF Chron | Crumb Janis | Dark Capitol | Gavin Mean | Ugly Owner | Starving Children | Junior Samples | Russiagate Weedsiness | Worth Fighting | 1956 Faces | Meeting Ourselves | Lead Stories | Whole Heart | Puppetmaster | Ukrainian Pessimism | Midlife Doggerel | Z's Future | Old Canal | Some Suggestions | What Gender | Man Sleeping

Valley People 8/18/2025

FROM a recent TWK column: “Does this mean she’s more upset about the way I fold towels than she was when I gave her the leaf blower for Christmas? Meaning, I think, that the towels…

Mendocino County Today: Sunday 8/17/2025

Cool & Moist | Bragg Protest | Drowning Victim | Forest Light | Vineyard Runoff | Pet Marshmallow | Excellent Reporting | AV Events | Panther Volleyballers | Fair Guidebook | Open House | Forest Dance | Redwood Snowman | Trimming Season | Logging Train | Yesterday's Catch | Gerry Meandering | Marco Radio | Giants Lose | Niners Win | Jack LaLanne | Tootsie Goodbye | Lead Stories | Political Language | Trailer Stilts | DC Crime | Hotcakes | BoJo Barfing | Leaving Anchorage | Transhumanism Craze | Alcohol Problems | Wharf Rat | Guadalupe

Smoke & Pianos

The evening light was a sickly sepia. The haze from the wildfires gave the clapboard houses on the steep hillside above one of Ithaca’s many gorges a simultaneously antique and apocalyptic cast. Down below in…

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