Ukiah Daily Journal

CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DAY: John Legend, 42; Denzel Washington, 66; Edgar Winter, 74; Dame Maggie Smith, 86.Happy Birthday: Communication...

Last week, Professor and sports’ fanatic Deborah White kicked off my mini-series which will carry into the new year. It will feature sports’...

CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DAY: Hayley Williams, 32; Wilson Cruz, 47; Gerard Depardieu, 72; John Amos, 81.Happy Birthday: Embrace change. Lea...

The California Dept. of Public Health (CDPH) now warns that “disastrous consequences” will occur without a change in how we celebrate the wi...

Ukiah Valley Fire Authority Division Chief Jeff Adair retired this year after 30 years of service as a firefighter in the Ukiah Valley. Whil...

For the last column of the year, a second review of some of the less serious legal doings of the often seriously awful 2020:• First, an upd...

According to worldometer.com, the US added one million new Covid cases in 25 days in September, 19 days in October, 5.8 days in November as...

Jan. 2: UUSD retrofits lighting at schools. Since taking advantage of grant funding available through Proposition 39 and the California Clea...

I’ve had it with standing on my roof every December, looking down on Dora Street traffic while holding strings of lights in my hands, a litt...

Sooner or later, the state of California and Bay Area counties will provide a more detailed priority list for who should get COVID-19 vaccin...

CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DAY: Chris Daughtry, 41; Jared Leto, 49; Ozzie Smith, 66; John Walsh, 75.Happy Birthday: Set your expectations hig...

Pop into any gift shop near a tourist lake, and you will see a pillow embroidered with this truth: If you’re lucky to live by a lake, you ar...

The scary part is that it’s always impossible to guess what schemes a crazy person will dream up next. No rationally competent observer, reg...

To the Editor:The Ukiah City Council has developed a terrible addiction and we need to do an intervention! They have a history of dreaming...

The Mendocino County Sheriff’s Office reported Thursday that continued testing at the Mendocino County Jail has confirmed that 17 inmates ha...

CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DAY: Annie Lennox, 66; CCH Pounder, 68; Sissy Spacek, 71; Jimmy Buffett, 74.Happy Birthday: It’s your turn to make...

About a dozen volunteers were cleaning trash out of three creeks in Ukiah Thursday in anticipation of the substantial rains expected on Chri...

There was never any question whether the global coronavirus pandemic would be named the most important religion-news story of 2020.The ques...

“It’s hanging on my building but just like when it was on the Werras' house, that’s not what it’s about. It’s more than that; it’s about the...

Reparations, claimed a commentary in California’s largest newspaper, are the answer to Black protesters’ demands for racial justice.Nonsens...

The most recent donations to the UDJ Holiday Food Bank Fund Drive are as follows:George & Ruth Bradford Foundation, $2,000;  Annie Mousse,...

CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DAY: Ryan Seacrest, 46; Stephenie Meyer, 47; Ricky Martin, 49; Diedrich Bader, 54.Happy Birthday: Procrastination...

“Once in our world, a stable had something in it that was bigger than our whole world.” –C.S. Lewis: “The Last Battle” (1956)Words countFo...

In late 2020, nearly half of Americans were working from home. Although the pandemic will eventually end and people will be allowed to retur...

A Ukiah man was arrested recently for allegedly performing sex acts with a child after an officer with the California Department of Fish and...