The Ukiah Senior Center faces a $15,000 monthly deficit, forcing the center to close on Fridays. Executive Director Liz Dorsey is streamlining services like outreach, transportation, medical equipment, and daily lunches. The center serves 4,000 needs monthly with 700 members, relying on Mendocino Transit Authority and County funding which ends next year plus donors. To … Read more
A proposal to annex the Redwood Valley County Water District into the Russian River Flood Control and Water Conservation Improvement District met strong opposition from farmers and property owners at the Flood Control Board meeting earlier this month. The annexation application, includes a Negative Declaration, asserting no significant environmental impact and thus no need for … Read more
Two new California Highway Patrol officers, Paulina Garcia and Celeste Marquez, have joined the Ukiah area. Both recently graduated from the CHP Academy in Sacramento. They will undergo further training with experienced officers.
Due to high fire risk, Mendocino National Forest has implemented fire restrictions until the end of the 2025 fire season. Prohibited activities include building fires, smoking (except in designated areas/vehicles), off-road internal combustion engines, welding, explosives, and fireworks. California Campfire Permit holders may use portable stoves and have campfires in Designated Fire Safe Recreation Sites … Read more
A heat advisory will be in effect from this morning through late Saturday evening for the Northwestern and Southeastern Mendocino county interior, from Covelo to Middletown. Temperatures from 100 to 109 are expected with little relief from nighttime cooling.
Mendocino County Animal Care Services has reopened its cat adoption rooms. The Ukiah shelter is open Tuesday-Friday, 9:30 AM-5 PM, and Saturday, 10 AM-3 PM.
Cal Fire will sell 100 firewood permits for the Jackson Demonstration State Forest starting Monday at 1 p.m. at their Fort Bragg office on N. Main St. Each permit is $20 and allows Mendocino County residents to collect two cords of firewood until October 1, or until supplies last. Chainsaws must have a spark arrester, … Read more
The Lake County Sheriff’s Office is looking for Damion Reynolds, 51, of Clearlake Park, last seen on Wednesday around 7 a.m. at his Crestview Drive home. His clothing and direction of travel are unknown. Reynolds is 5 feet 8 inches tall, 120 pounds, with short brown hair, brown eyes, and possibly a mustache and goatee. … Read more
The Mendocino County Office of Education is seeking applicants to represent Trustee Area 3, which includes Covelo, Brooktrails, Laytonville and Willits. Find out more at mcoe.us
A Clearlake Oaks man, Clifford Merle Cutrell, 54, also known as “Cliff Hanger,” appeared in Lake County Superior Court on Tuesday after being arrested last week. A registered sex offender, Cutrell faces ten felony charges, including kidnapping to commit robbery or rape, assault, four counts of oral copulation by force, rape by force, burglary, threats, … Read more