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Valley People 10/21/2025

WOULDN'T ordinarily risk boring you, but for the first time in my apparently endless life, I'm dreaming vivid dreams, so vivid I remember them at wake up time. Must be the cancer meds, but two…

Assignment: Ukiah – I Conquer Black Bart Trail

I plowed on. The cautious (sane) part of me whispered, told me to turn around, go back! back! but I pressed ever east, across the dusty washboard trail, searching the skies for the Drinkin’ Gourd,…

Mendocino County Today: Monday 10/20/2025

Warming | Gull | Bad Plan | Thomas McGuire | New Book | County Questionnaire | Local Roundup | AVBC Halloween | Jim Cummings | NC to CA | Tourist Economy | Yesterday's Catch | Niners Win | Other Bands | Honest Women | Delta Cost | Poisoned River | Salmon Return | Red California | Proud Boyfriend | SF Next | Mental Decline | Brazil Right | Ann Dunham | Arkansas Prison | No Queens | Bolton Case | 2000 Years | Israel Attacks | Lead Stories | 1932 Echo | Limitations | Writing Bovary | Worst Cliffhanger | Begin Beguine | Steelworker's Family | Hunchback Trout | October Gold

Off the Record 10/20/2025

JIM SHIELDS MEMORIAL: A PERFECT DAY Pictured above are Jim’s kids with their spouses and his bike: Roland (holding grand dog Chiquita), Maria, Jim and Jayma. The Shields and Spence Family would like to thank…

What Made America Great?

We are now experiencing a paroxysm of efforts to Make America Great … Again. This should raise questions in every American mind: which greatness are we hoping to re-create? How was that greatness initially achieved?…

Mendocino County Today: Sunday 10/19/2025

Cool | Local Protesting | Ed Notes | Aunt Tifah | Parking Garage | AV Events | Pet Peppa | PVP Discussion | No Charge | Yesterday's Catch | To Autumn | Oz | An Epiphany | Not Right | No Hurry | Not Yet | Marco Radio | Foreboding | Book Juggler | Office Bully | Interstate Closure | Political Speech | Being Dead | Same Game | Chicken Trial | Most Unhinged | Pete Muttonhead | Beatnik | Barenboim Berlin | Abusive Language | Hardest Fight | Petty Bourgeois | Lead Stories | Worse Shape | 100 People | Complete Failure | Peace Trap | Nickname Guide | Sick America | Big Crowds

Mendocino County Today: Saturday 10/18/2025

Warm | New Courthouse | Billy Joe Norbury | Mary Ellen Serafini | Figs | County Notes | Local Events | Recall Rejected | Assault Comments | Housing Benefit | Pitching In | Bigeagle Art | Boonville | Missing John | Yesterday's Catch | Women’s Prison | Marco Radio | The Rider | American Restatement | Miserable People | Field Guide | What Good? | No Kings | Insurrection Anyone? | Beating Nazis | Waymo Test | Making Cigarettes | Tunnel Issues | 42nd Street | Early Fights | Santos Freed | Power/Poetry | Not Easy | Lead Stories | Terrifying Regime | Cotton Loading | Venezuela Dealing | Not Fun | Arrested | Ceasefire Lie | Matinee | Rising Seas | Fumbling Joe

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