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Mendocino County Today: Tuesday 2/10/2026

Rain Coming | Deer | Skateboard Assault | Sexual Assaults | Crabbers Done | Candidate Green | Unusual Election | Turkeytail Display | Come a'Thistlin' | Nursing Program | Pink Show | Museum Appreciation | Yesterday's Catch | Esmeralda Meeting | Crocket Bridge | Fair Wages | Ruthless Regime | Radically Inactive | HST Breakfast | Niner Whiner | Selwyn Theatre | Epstein Survivors | Our Boy | The Grifter | Reading Newspaper | Bunny Show | Frog Prince | Dirty Kitchen | Lead Stories | ICE Polls | What Next | DIY | In View | The Wind

The Benches Of Mendocino County: Navarro Point

It would be nearly impossible for me to choose just one favorite view along the ruggedly beautiful Mendocino Coast, but I can easily pick my favorite bench found there: the ruggedly beautiful memorial to Deborah…

Am I Not Pretty Enough?

I recently attended a dinner that included a 40-something woman I have known for years as part of my extended family. I looked forward to hearing how she was doing as a mother, a wife,…

Mendocino County Today: Monday 2/9/2026

Cool & Cloudy | Remembering Sara | Senior Free-Day | Sunrise Colors | Second Protest | Recreational Center | Pitch Stream | Van Caravan | Pacific Sunset | Modern Art | Log Chain | Yesterday's Catch | Ax Shoots | No Accountability | Neal Cassady | MEAT malignancy | Lyle Talbot | Doesn’t Square | Keep Focused | Desert Home | A Tip | Secret Ingredient | He Can Stay | Palm Beach | 811 Years Ago | Beating Out | Can't Trust | Cultural Exhaustion | Bad Bunny | Ey, Auntie | Seahawks Win | Columnist Izenberg | Frets | Post Bezos | Noam & Jeff | Don & Jeff | Only Benefit | Evil Problem | Prefer Nixon | Tolstoy Legacy | Epstein Ad | Simple Matter | Lead Stories | Nature | Playing Chess | With Maduro | Abducted

Letters 2/9/2026

A lot of folks in the community wonder why Mendocino Railway’s privately owned excursion train qualifies for millions in taxpayer government subsidies. The answer — they work relentlessly propagating the fiction…

Black History Month, Lesson Plan: 1

“EthnoBotany of the Black Americans” by William Ed Grimé is a well-researched, succinct book listing 242 plant species introduced and/or used by Black slaves in the Americas. Among them were okra, peanut, akee, cannabis, African…

Mendocino County Today: Sunday 2/8/2026

PV Sunrise | Rain | Protest Photos | More Protesting | Jim Robinson | AV Events | Talmage Rental | Hipcamp Proposal | David Duncan | Airbnb Policy | Pet Sketch | Jack Littlefield | Candidate Bianco | Yesterday's Catch | Terrible Idea | Party Gras | Marco Radio | Marin Library | Drilling Permits | Money Ball | Halfback Jack | Christian Keyboard | Niner Fan | Levi's Security | Damn Everything | Modern Americans | Barstool Dave | Falling Children | Giants Arraez | Early Years | Chomsky Statement | Everything/Nothing | ICE Flights | My Parents | Some Writers | Money People | Melania’s Music | ICE Fishing | 77 Million | Lead Stories | Degenerate Town | Christian Right | Revelations | Hogback Hill | Downtown Denizens | Beat Generation | Long Haul

Valley People 2/8/2026

RENEE LEE (AV Senior Center): In case you’re wondering…it basically takes 900 lbs. of crab, 150 loaves of French bread, 40 lbs. of butter, 5 gallons of Louie sauce, 40 lbs. of lettuce and spring…

Winter Woes: Dancing to Schubert in Berlin

Anglophone theatre people wish each other good luck (or better, anti-bad luck) with the phrase “break a leg.” The Germans double the violence: “Hals- und Beinbruch” — break your neck and your leg, not that…

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