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The thrills of ranch life take center stage Saturday, April 25 as the Flock Together Festival returns to historic Ridgewood Ranch for a full-day celebration of sheep, farming, and agrarian culture. Equal parts gritty workday and joyful gathering, the festival invites people of all ages behind the gates of a working ranch to experience rural life in motion.
Growers across California are pulling vines at a pace nobody alive has seen. Nowhere is the identity question sharper than in Mendocino County, where wine has been a way of life for four generations.
This isn’t a story about oversupply. That’s the symptom. This is about what happens to a place when the crop that defined it starts to disappear.
https://mendovoice.com/2026/04/californias-40000-acre-question/
This Sunday, curator Leyna Lightman and Ridgewood Ranch along with Mendocino Art Center, will present a Senegalese animal-to-drum making workshop, using the hide of a cow born and raised on Ridgewood Ranch in Willits.
At the workshop, held at Ridgewood Ranch, one to three communal drums will be crafted and then donated to the Mendocino Art Center in Mendocino. On Saturday, May 2, the drum or drums will be activated in a ceremony and celebration at the Arts Center.
https://mendovoice.com/2026/04/ridgewood-ranch-to-host-senegalese-drum-making-workshop-sunday/
The 17th annual Noyo Food Forest Earth Day Festival drew a large turnout Saturday at the Noyo Food Forest’s Learning Garden at Fort Bragg High School.
The free event featured more than 50 organizations and vendors that contributed education, sustainability exhibits and hands-on activities to bring the community together around Earth Day themes.
https://mendovoice.com/2026/04/noyo-food-forest-earth-day-festival-bigger-than-ever/
Milo, a seven-pound cavamaltipoo who is the canine vice president of customer happiness at Mendocino Tea Company, just entered the town of Mendocino’s mayoral race.
Milo will be at the Second Annual Pup Palooza this Saturday, April 25, at Little River Inn, where his opponent, Bodhi, is also set to make an appearance.
https://mendovoice.com/2026/04/mendocino-tea-companys-milo-throws-bone-in-mendocino-mayoral-race/
More than 100 Mendocino County community members packed into the Little Lake Grange in Willits to listen to candidates running for the District 3 Board of Supervisors seat address local issues and their proposed solutions.
Candidates Buffey Wright Bourassa, Russell Green, Eric Hart and Clay Romero are running to take the place of current District 3 Supervisor John Haschak.
Philip Cardman has been located as of Wednesday, according to the Fort Bragg Police Department.
Fort Bragg police had asked for the public’s help in finding the 78-year-old man who was last seen Tuesday evening near Snug Harbor Drive.
https://mendovoice.com/2026/04/fort-bragg-police-asks-for-help-in-finding-missing-man/
Tuesday, a 16-year-old male juvenile from Covelo was apprehended by Oroville Police Department officers, suspected to have fatally shot a 38-year-old woman, also from Covelo, according to the Mendocino County Sheriff’s Office.
A Redwood Valley woman died from a venomous snake bite this month, the Mendocino County Sheriff’s Office confirmed Monday.
According to the coroner’s investigation, the woman was taken to the hospital on April 8 after being bitten by a snake in a rural area of Redwood Valley. She was apparently bit by a venomous snake three times and treated for the bites at the hospital, but her health deteriorated. She was pronounced deceased on April 10 at 9:30 a.m.
https://mendovoice.com/2026/04/sheriffs-office-confirms-redwood-valley-woman-died-from-snakebite/
After a decade of planning, Bainbridge Park’s grand reopening celebration began Saturday morning under clear, sunny skies. Funded in part by two Proposition 68 California State Parks grants, the long-awaited project brought together project partners, city officials and staff along with lots of community members to witness the reopening. Families gathered on the lawn as children played soccer on the newly constructed fields.
https://mendovoice.com/2026/04/fort-bragg-celebrates-bainbridge-park-reopening-with-food-and-fun/
