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Announcements 12/18/2025

A LOCAL WINE PIONEER This month, Anderson Valley lost one of its wine pioneers. Theresia Kobler passed away at 92 from natural causes, and our community already feels the loss deeply. We send our love…

Holiday Festivities Roll Out

In Anderson Valley the Boonville Hotel struck the first match of the season on Thursday December 4th with their annual Tree Lighting to benefit the AV Food Bank. For a $20 donation attendees are served…

Mendocino County Today: Wednesday 12/17/2025

Clearing | Blattner Memorial | The Koblers | Lions Party | Death Caps | Ukiah Tour | Mario Ceja | Pinoli Interview | Sarah Ballard | Haschak Announcement | Skunk Ruling | Broken Foot | Levene Honored | Repeat Offenders | Hospitality Center | Navajo Power | Davis Bail | Yesterday's Catch | Battery Recycling | Winter Night | PG&E Firestarting | Versatronex Strike | Radioactive Pigs | Cheese Brush | Water Wars | Poker Night | Heartless Post | Media Disarray | People Nervous | Demon Emperor | Deeply Alone | High Time | Pancho Villa | Grand Chords | Lead Stories | Failure | Not Stay | Turbo | Recommended Books | Best Food | Still Waiting | Pastures Heaven | Transformation & Escape | Tideline

Announcements 12/17/2025

BARBARA LYNN BLATTNER (1947 — 2025) Barbara Lynn Blattner, 78, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother passed away unexpectedly on November 14, 2025, in Gold River, California. She was born on August 14, 1947, in Hot Springs,…

From the Archive (12/30/1985): Here And There In Mendocino County

MY MY, AREN’T THE POT smokers getting self-righteous: Convicted Navarro dope grower, Don Lipmanson, has recommended antabuse for “the gang of three,” associated with the Anderson Valley Greens. Writing for the Commentary and apparently one…

Mendocino County Today: Tuesday 12/16/2025

Rain Begins | Guns & Drugs | Headstone Vanished | Sulphur Tufts | Mural Rebound | Stanford Bound | Public Access | Four Spots | Amanita | Arena Agenda | School Architecture | Some Paper | Yesterday's Catch | Paper Ballots | Barbara Lubin | Pay or Die | Peters Case | James Joyce | Drug Smuggling | Reiner TDS | Doomlings | Foraging | Isn't Me | Lead Stories | Not Banished | LSD Blotter | Funky 12-Step | True Currency | Sunrise | Supernatural Dimension | Trees | Optical Illusion | Crybaby Blues | Got Shakes | Prison Fish | Dylan Thomas | Vietnam 1954 | Winter Light

Off the Record 12/16/2025

PEARL HARBOR SURVIVOR (My Annual Remembrance) by Bruce Anderson Count me as one. I was two, my brother one, when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, on December 7, 1941. My brother and I were born…

Lake Superior Never Gives Up Its Dead

There are many things I don’t understand. Some are common, like the mystery of airplanes able to heave their loaded bulk high above the clouds, coming down a million miles away with (almost) never a…

Mendocino County Today: Monday 12/15/2025

Rain Soon | Low Sun | Lead Stories | Bomb Found | Marian Hoyle | Firefighters/Responders | Benavides Recognized | Road Tax | Club Coral | Skunk to MCOG | Mechanic Promotion | Buckhorn Saloon | 1914 News | Yesterday's Catch | Muscle Beach | Cute Inc | Death Hippie | Niners Win | Warlocks | Watching Basketball | Setting Out | Roadside | Road Deaths | Don't Believe | Pesky Regulations | HRC Says | Rebranding Genocide | Busting Kesey | Griffith Griffith | Regret It | Ancient Days

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