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Anderson Valley Advertiser

From the Archive: October 23, 1985, Editor’s Desk

I’M ALWAYS AMUSED WHEN STRANGERS drop by with business for the Advertiser. They walk cautiously through a gauntlet of fighting and screaming children, knock timidly on the door and ask, incredulously, “Is this the newspaper?”…

Mendocino County Today: Tuesday 10/28/2025

Sunny | Soccer Seniors | Graffiti Arrest | Ballot Initiative | Stephen Muchowski | Flabbergasting Press Release | Gear Marked | Mantis | Unfair Burden | Bridge Lawsuit | Kelp Recovery | New APCO | Town Hall | Trailborn Presentation | Dance Performances | Carousel Zucked | Art Lemos | Yesterday's Catch | Klamath Salmon | Oakland Resistance | Food Aid | Battenkill Bathers | Project 2025 | Tawdry Versailles | Boing! | Evolutionary Survivors | Lead Stories | DMV Ageism | Desert Ranges | Stienstra Update | Ab Trophy | Fallen Gods | Funeral Blues | Young Love | Melting | Mamdani Ascendant | Northumberland Falls | Right Reactionaries | Deadhead Alert | Everyone's Twelve | Autumn Sweater | Stoned Agin | Grokipedia | Loving One | Journeys End

Off The Record 10/28/2025

DAILY MAIL, Saturday morning: “Thousands of 'No Kings' protesters clutching obscene signs pack the streets to oppose Trump… as America braces for violent chaos.” DOUBT IT, but violent resistance to Trump's daily crimes is the…

NC To CA: Drop Dead.

(NOTE: Upon learning we live part-time in North Carolina, friends have requested information about relocating. They receive responses like this.) Dear California Resident: Thank you on behalf of the North Carolina Visitors and Relocation Bureau!…

Mendocino County Today: Monday 10/27/2025

Noyo Bay | Chilly Nights | Stephen Muchowski | Thanks Mendo | Town Hall | Supply Drive | Unity Club | Noyo Harbor | Roommate Wanted | Grape Harvest | AI Future | Grange Halloween | Yesterday's Catch | 1979 Memories | Who'll Stop | Niners Lose | Delta Update | AInsanity | Violent Remodel | Dear America | Hill & Bill | Gavin/Kamala | Necktie | Party Trivia | Wigan Pier | Morning After | Desert Home | What Paper | Lead Stories | No Crazier | Nope 6 | Stay 85 | Old Canal | Whole Mess | Modern America | Quantum Paris

Valley People 10/27/2025

DOUG JOHNSON (Philo Potter): If you would like to make a donation and cannot come to Pepperwood Pottery in person, simply mail a check or money order directly and payable to: Terese Brendlen P.O. Box…

Freedom Is A Constant Struggle

I’d read and heard loads about One Battle After Another and invited a friend who came through the long Sixties to see it with me. She has studied the kind of white nationalism that fuels…

Mendocino County Today: Sunday 10/26/2025

Wet Again | Wildcats Win | Judge Scott | Church Sales | Pet Smit | Ed Notes | Timber Fallers | All Kinds | Local Events | Ocean Oddballs | Drink Math | Yesterday's Catch | No 50 | The Twist | Understand Fear | Policy + Religion | Keep-On Griftin' | Marco Radio | Desperate Man | Marijuana Medicine | Like How | NBA Gambling | Windmill Rider | Fascinating Occupations | Jack London | Bullfight Writing | Happy Joe | Robert Frost | Tattoo | Charlie Birger | Protest Mess | The Border | Gran Calavera | AI Concerns | Enjoy It | Replacing Capitalism | The Sun | Wild Heart | Lead Stories | Private Mellon | Another Bid | The Wall | Starving Civilians | Vietnam Vets

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