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From Hard Headed To Soft Hearted

Do we get softer, more sentimental, less intelligent and less able to think clearly as we age? (Asking for a friend.) Actually I’m asking for, or about, my wife. She was once hard-headed, tough-minded and…

Mendocino County Today: Monday 12/22/2025

Short Break | Road Closures | Armed Robbery | Arias Sentenced | Identity Theft | Temporarily Frozen | Evans 5th | Ukiah Fiber | Boonquiz | Familiar Carols | Brown Hills | Abalone Chowder | Yesterday's Catch | Humboldt Flooding | Esmeralda No | Human Consumption | Look! Nazis! | Prop 13 | Dangerous Lots | Dark Thinking | SF Outage | GG 1937 | Delta Collapse | Drink Alone | Self Portrait | Childless Women | Big Club | Feels Good | Liberal Democrat | Ten Righteous | Antelope Valley | Democratic Socialists | Cute Patti | Arbitrary Divide | Lead Stories | My Son | Sea Boots | Own Research | Christmas Angels

MCT Delayed This Morning

It is not clear, at the moment, what the problem was, but chances are pacific.net may have (once again) eaten our homework. Apologies for the delay, and we hope to have your daily package of…

Road Tax Accountability Provisions

Back in 2018 when he was running for Fifth District Supervisor Hopland contractor David Roderick made road conditions a campaign priority, saying: “People say that it's $1 million a mile to pave a road. But…

Valley People 12/22/2025

A LARGE CROWD of Firefighters, families and supporters turned out at the Fairgrounds Apple Hall for Saturday night’s annual Firefighters/Responders Awards Dinner. Well deserved awards were given to: Special Volunteer Response Recognition went to frequent…

Mendocino County Today: Sunday 12/21/2025

Heavy Rain | Tree Illusion | PG&E Flow Revision | Judy Campbell | GRT Update | AV Events | Basketball Honors | Identity Thief | Water Rates | All-PD Football | Pet Bandit | Gurney Banned | Holiday Bazaar | Boonquiz | Author Talk | Ed Notes | Logging Book | Yesterday's Catch | Crab Season | Approaching Storm | Marco Radio | Black States | Carpool Hours | Jack London | British Library | John List | Dopamine | Arizona Ridge | Epstein Case | Lightnin' Hopkins | Old House | Hill Street | Puritan Age | Lead Stories | Chappelle Code | Noon | Not Free | Last Straw | Find Peace | Sundown Pool

Tis The Seasons: Midsummer in Midwinter with the Bard

Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, now at the Sam Wanamaker Theatre on London’s Southbank, might seem to make for oddly out-of-season fare. Yet the play itself conjures calendric confusion and climate catastrophe. In the midst…

Mendocino County Today: Saturday 12/20/2025

Rain Tonight | AVUSD News | Laytonville Loiterer | Eyster Defiant | Officer McDougal | State Audit | Local Events | Water Upgrades | Boonquiz | Audit Project | Second DUI | Many Trumpets | Water Rates | Yorkville Toast | USDA PVP | Mobile Mechanic | Past Assets | Yesterday's Catch | Piano Concerts | Oakland Sundown | Discriminatory Hobby | Invasion Flashback | Keeping Up | Trade Schooling | Marco Radio | Convenience Store | Housing Incentive | Flames | Feel Awful | Solomon Book | Lead Stories | Moral Judgment | Bidens Fault | Epstein Release | Hippie Reunion

DA Eyster’s Defiant 27 Page Response To State Audit

For two years Mendocino County District Attorney David Eyster has refused to publicly address his controversial practice of using public criminal asset forfeiture funds to pay for a series of annual year end staff dinners…

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