Mendo Local Weekly Roundup — September 26, 2026
A nation-wide protest against off-shore oil drilling, mid-term elections, and a death in Mendocino.
Contributions to the District Three Supervisor's Race Draw Scrutiny
In the District 3 supervisorial race, Buffey Bourassa has out-raised Eric Hart — and three of her contributors raise questions.
Major Drug Bust in the Town of Mendocino Follows Apparent Deadly Overdose
Clayton Lowell, 39, is being held on felony drug charges after investigators seized counterfeit fentanyl pills, xylazine, and other drugs — an arrest that came five days after his wife died of an apparent overdose.
Candidate Interview — Mary Anne Schmidt — September 29, 2026
We are in the final stretch of candidate interviews and election forums with a final voter-interview forum with Mary Ann Schmidt on Sept. 29, a League of Women Voters forum on Oct. 1, and a Voting Matters Proposition Workshop on Oct. 12.
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Hands Across the Sand Participants Recall Earlier Battle
Roughly two hundred people gathered at Big River Beach on Saturday to express opposition to offshore oil drilling and support for a clean-energy future.
Jackson State Forest: We’re Looking at the Wrong Economy
What if Jackson State Forest’s greatest economic potential is the forest itself?
Mendo Local Weekly Roundup — September 19, 2026
Composting toilets, an amnesty for ADUs, and the impact of health care cuts.
Supervisors Move to Update Mendocino's Historic Structures Inventory, A Half-Century After Volunteers Began It
The Mendocino County Board of Supervisors voted 5-0 on Sept. 15 to begin updating the inventory of historic structures in the Mendocino Town Plan, a decades-old document that officials and property owners say is incomplete.
"This Is Scary" — Federal Changes Hit Health Care in Mendocino County (Typos fixed)
The changes that Congress wrote into the federal budget are scheduled to reshape Medi-Cal in 2027. But when Mendocino County's three acute care hospitals looked at their emergency rooms this year, the shift had already begun.