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Mendocino County Today: Monday 9/29/2025

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Valley People 9/29/2025

BOB VAUGHN, popular long-time valley resident and KZYX programmer has died. Correctly described by long-time KZYX programmer Karen Ottoboni as “committed and passionate,” Vaughn often lived hand to mouth, sometimes homeless, but was always upbeat…

Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart

Youth is lousy preparation for old age. Everything boys learn from ages 5 to 30 is likely to result in scores of accidents, dozens of injuries, multiple trips to the emergency room and death by…

Mendocino County Today: Sunday 9/28/2025

Rain Tomorrow | Tree Hazard | Skunk Real | AV Events | Ed Notes | Duck Walk | Not Mentioned | Housing Fund | Pet Caspar | Wildcats Lose | Chevy Van | BS Rules | Bryne's Landing | Public Lands | Coast Guard | Yesterday's Catch | No 50 | Blood Pressure | Test Scores | Wine Shorts | Unknown Vehicle | Marco Radio | DC Reunion | Giants Win | LSD $1 | Hungry AI | Sean Flynn | Everybody Knows | Vera Nabokov | My Dream | AI Armageddon | Blueberry Hill | Last Days | Lead Stories | Biggest Crime | Hurry Dear | Shadow Ticket | Average Man | Sleeping Sailors | In Berlin | Zion Park | Everything Permitted | Do Sober

Sic Transit Gloria Maestro

It’s a tough time to be a star conductor. When the world goes to hell, everyone wants to point the finger at the maestro—at the one whose job it is to point at others. Last…

From the Archive: Editor’s Desk 10/2/1985

I GREW UP a hundred miles south of here, or at least I got bigger, agreeing at least partially with the feminists who maintain that American men never really grow up but remain forever boys.…

Mendocino County Today: Saturday 9/27/2025

Warm & Dry | Westport Construction | Pacific Storm | 6,259 Plants | Recall Effort | Beargrass Earrings | Key Actions | Nitrous Ban | Kai Poma | FCS Concerns | Bring Joy | Evan's Story | Rail Renaissance | Rail Map | Unity Club | Shields Memorial | Song Night | Icehouse Tour | MTC Production | UDJ 1968 | Mendo Manson | UDJ 1969 | Yesterday's Catch | NorCal Resist | White & Black | Pillsbury Dilemma | Prepositioned | Number Homes | 1981 Year | Selling PD | Giants Win | Cruel World | Marco Radio | DC Stehr | Screening Room | Gologorsky Novel | Walter Benjamin | Film Format | Boycott Over | America's Attention | Lost Women | Re-Invade Vietnam | In September | I'm Hooked | False Claims | Truman & Harper | Judgment Days | Reapers | Dorothy Parker | Both Parties | Lead Stories | Aunt Helen

James Joseph Shields

March 1, 1947-September 3, 2025 James Joseph ‘Jim’ Shields, 78, of Laytonville passed away peacefully on Wednesday, September 3, 2025, while working on the latest edition of The Mendocino County Observer newspaper. Jim was born…

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