Comptche News Today

It is important to take the time to acknowledge all of the missing persons families are still searching for even though, in some cases, it has been many years. We are republishing a list of the most recent cases, as well a list of older cases in hopes that someone may recall any useful information. […]

Dylan James Gardiner Beach died in San Francisco on July 22, 2008, after a week in Kaiser hospital, from pulmonary hypertension. He was 43. There will be a memorial gathering to celebrate Dylan”s life on Saturday, Aug. 23, 3:30 to 6 p.m. at the Noe Valley Ministry, 1021 Sanchez St., San Francisco. Dylan is survived […]

Compiled from the pages of The Beacon By Debbie L. Holmer 125 Years Ago Nov. 26, 1887 The egg famine still continues. Although eggs bring 60 cents a dozen, it is almost impossible to find any in the market. Frank Caughey, of Cuffey”s Cove, was in town on Monday. He informed us that the Cuffey”s […]

Because the Kelley House is celebrating 50 years of preserving coastal history, we recently looked at the first item that was “saved” by the founders Dorothy Bear and Beth Stebbins. The Great Register of 1894 is a reproduced copy of the official voters in Mendocino County at that time. A potential voter provided the following […]

Enjoying the sun as he sits on his wraparound porch, 86-year-old Daniel C. Parker points out the drop in temperature around the corner of his home. “It’s like a tunnel for wind. One day, it was so strong, it blew me off the porch and onto my back into that bush. It didn’t cause any […]

Jan. 3: Sierra snowpack near decade high. As the new year began in 2023, California's Sierra was closing in on the second-largest snowpack we've seen at this time of year in the last two decades, with more snow expected to pummel the mountain range in the coming days.

Jan. 3: Sierra snowpack near decade high. As the new year began in 2023, California's Sierra was closing in on the second-largest snowpack we've seen at this time of year in the last two decades, with more snow expected to pummel the mountain range in the coming days.

Nannie Escola, one of the first chroniclers of Mendocino coast lore, left the Kelley House notebooks full of newspaper clippings and handwritten notes about local happenings. What follows are some tidbits of interest about Comptche, 12 miles inland, gleaned from those three-ring binders. In the fall of 1884. Newman E. Hoak showed off a gloria […]

• Work commenced Monday morning on the new bridge across Ten Mile River.

The Board of Directors of the Arts Council of Mendocino County is pleased to announce the 21st Annual Mendocino County Arts Champion Award recipients.