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Announcements 4/29/2025

MARY LAURA HOLLIFIELD Mary Laura Hollifield, age 79, of Caddo Gap, passed away on Thursday, April 17, 2025. She was born on March 11, 1946, in Hot Springs. She was the daughter of Burnett Price…

Folks Mingle Easy In These Parts

We were standing in the lobby waiting in the popcorn line, and we noticed a smartly dressed black teenager in front of us. She wore familiar teen couture: distressed jeans so tight she’ll need a…

Mendocino County Today: Monday 4/28/2025

Becoming Sunny | Contrails | PD Sale | Folk Duo | Courthouse Project | Mendo Homeless | Biracial Leaf | Ungoverned Ukiah | Wildflower Show | Boontling Classic | Blocking Comments | Starving Pelicans | Pomo Dance | Yesterday's Catch | Mister Anachronism | Westward Bound | Dreamed Poem | Christian Qualities | Tiger Skull | Running | Giants Win | Superman Curry | Not Here | Beating Nordic | Hurry Dad | Dental Cavities | Bad System | Let's Eat | Empty Promises | Sunday Times | Great Delusion | Bach Hydropower | Grammar Vandal | Candy Mountain | City Busking

Valley People 4/28/2025

CATHETER BLUES Late Wednesday afternoon I had to make a run for the Emergency Room at Marin General Hospital where my mother worked as an RN when it first opened. The hospital, now a mammoth…

Political Flashback

The removal of 381 books from the US Naval Academy Nimitz library last week was flashback-inducing for your correspondent. When Sen. Joseph McCarthy was at the peak of his power in March, 1953, Dashiell Hammett…

Mendocino County Today: Sunday 4/27/2025

Decreasing Clouds | FB Protest | Souza Found | Kleppe Missing | Courthouse Begins | Local Events | AVUSD News | Four Dogs | Pinot Fest | Weeping Mulberry | Ed Notes | Leaf Caught | Yesterday's Catch | Mid 80s | Marco Radio | Coffee & Cannabis | Warriors Win | Giants Win | Attitude Problem | Climate Costs | Artist Perri | Railroad Car | Low-Info Voting | Lead Stories | Judge Arrested | Higher Learning | Trump's Circle | National Bestseller | Girlfriend Experience | Poison Food | Tooth Decay | Crazy Days | Khe Sanh

Construction Begins On $144 Million Courthouse

A $144 million new Mendocino County Courthouse in Ukiah is rising alongside railroad tracks crossing Perkins Street, the main corridor that links the commercial core of Ukiah to the Highway 101 freeway. A formal dedication…

Wind Work

If the organ is the King of Instruments, its monarchy is built on deception. The largest, most technologically complicated, most tonally diverse, and most visually stunning of musical objects, the organ was often held to…

Mendocino County Today: Saturday 4/26/2025

Showers | Souza Missing | Mayor Allman | Prescribed Burn | Barrel Dumping | Memorial Service | Flynn Chat | Big Sticky | Pension Funding | Plant Sale | Circle Dance | Glass Menagerie | Bridge Work | Speakeasy Soiree | Family Softball | Noyo Race | Left Heart | Yesterday's Catch | Richardson Crystals | Dead Moth | Derwinski Poems | Marco Radio | Policy Coverage | Giants Lose | Funny Name | Medi-Cal Funding | Parking Posts | NOAA Cuts | Candidate Hilton | 1866 Migrants | Be Alcoholic | Working Man | Dehydrated Water | You're Welcome | Lead Stories | Stoopid Question | American Jacobins | Peace Plan | Adolf Dinner | Last Step | Political Science | Our Home

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