You are authorized to remove driftwood at Noyo Beach in preparation for this year's Fireworks event. Certain conditions apply regarding driftwood removal, so please be sure to read the Press Release by clicking here: Driftwood

Willits Community Theatre's Gateway to the Stage Summer Camp begins on June 26 and will last through  August 6. The camp sessions will take place Mondays thru Thursdays, from 1 pm to 4 pm. at the auditorium at Willits High School. For this year’s camp production it's  A Midsummer Night's Dream, the classic Shakespearean comedy. […]

This summer kids can attend the  Noyo Center Summer Camps and learn about marine science and experience the Mendocino Coast. The summer camps run for one week each month is summer for ages 6 to 10.  Get all the dates, details and sign up at Noyo Center website    

The internship at The Learning Garden at the Noyo Food Forest is an opportunity for high school students (age 13-17) to learn about sustainable gardening, gain valuable job experience, and explore our local food system while being paid. For all the details go to Noyo Food Forest webpage. The deadline to apply is June 9

the Willits Community Theatre is holding auditions for Neil Simon's comedy "The Odd Couple" (Female Version),on Tuesday June 13th at 6 pm.  The call is for 6 women and 2 men 30’s-40’s If you would like read the script of if you have any questions, contact Maria at email at tappinshoes@comcast.net or text 707-367-9594 "Odd […]

History Makers! Gadgets Galore Story Time and Hands-On Crafts at the Mendocino County Museum explores inventions that have transformed the American household. History Makers Story Time will feature stories read aloud by staff that are sure to inspire young inventors and curious minds. Afterwards, attendees can go straight to work testing out old-fashioned tools, gadgets, […]

The only in person registration night for the 2023 Fort Bragg Cubs Football & Cheer season will be at Round Table Pizza from 5p-7p Tuesday May 31. Last day to register at the special 2023 Season pricing of $100.

Caltrans invites you to a virtual open house for the Pudding Creek bridge widening and rail upgrade project for the Pudding Creek bridge on Wednesday, May 31, 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm.  You can attend  by calling 408-418-9388, access code: 2484 699 8241 or at CalTrans

Every Wednesday join the Queen of Boogie Woogie, Wendy DeWitt, for a blues jam with musical friends at the Hopland Tap, 21 and over, 7 p.m., no cover (food or drink purchase required)

Give the kids something to do this summer at the Mendocino Art Center in three different sessions.  Open to ages 5 and up, kids can learn masking  or a session making animal in 3 both using paper, clay and paper mâché.making, then it's clay days when kids can make bowls, plant pots, covers jars, tiles […]

Free COVID testing is available at the Mendocino Coast Clinic's drive-thru under the tent Monday-Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. They are giving out free COVID vaccines, drive under the tent on Tuesdays from 2:00-5:00pm. New bivalent boosters from both Pfizer and Moderna are available.

The 16th Annual Mendocino Film Festival, June 1-4, features films from around the world, visiting filmmakers, special events, and live music performances. Also a children’s program, a Native Cinema program, and many other festival celebrations. Tickets  on sale  at  Mendo Film Festival

The Mendocino County Museum invites you to come see various gadgets, both recognizable and strange,on display in Gadgets Galore!, illustrating how industrialization transformed every American household in the 19th-century. The invention of mechanical processes and the discovery of electricity and steam power would impact day-to-day life around the world. Mass production, faster communication, and more […]

Come enjoy the rich history and diverse plant life with a trained garden steward who will share the fascinating details of the Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens. These weekly one-hour introductory tours focus on the Gardens many plant collections. Walks are free with regular Gardens admission  on Thursday afternoons Availability for each tour is limited (based […]

The Ukiah Library invites everyone to welcome, State Park Steve, to discuss our local California State Parks on Thursday, June 1st at 3 PM. Find out what California State Parks have to offer to you on your next excursion, learn about how to check out a free State Park Pass from the library, have fun […]

The first Thursday of the month Steven Bates host live music outdoors at Piaci Pub and Pizzeria starting at 5pm going until sunset.  This month's music is Norman and the Boyz

Join the monthly Lines and Spines Book Club meetings will take place on the first Thursday of the month at 6pm on Zoom. Please email Melissa Carr at carrm@mendocinocounty.org or call 234-2862 to sign up. All registrants will receive an email invite to participate via Zoom

This year's Mendocino Film Festival starts out on Thursday June 1 at the Arena Theater  The one night only cinema special will be a Short Film Program “Feel Good,” curated by the Mendocino Film Festival and introduced by Steve McLaughlin.Heartwarming, humorous stories from around the world: Come lift your spirits and enjoy a good laugh! […]

The Redwood Empire Spring Fair runs June 2 to 4 at the Redwood Empire Fairgrounds in Ukiah. Three days of monster trucks and carnival rides, food, rides, truck shows, boat races, and much more! Full schedule and details at Redwood Empire Spring Fair

It's honeybee swarm season and here's what to do when you find a bee swarm, call the Bee Swarm Hotline at 570-765-1848 and they will contact a local beekeeper to help you.

The 16th Annual Mendocino Film Festival, June 1-4, features films from around the world, visiting filmmakers, special events, and live music performances. Also a children’s program, a Native Cinema program, and many other festival celebrations. Tickets  on sale  at  Mendo Film Festival

Friday mornings the Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens offers a mindful moving meditation of T'ai Chi Chih. It's  gentle flowing movements involve no physical contact but rather emphasize a soft, graceful continuity in motion. Each class features 20 easy-to-learn flowing movements. It offers endless opportunities for vibrant health and well-being at any age and physical condition. […]

FREE  Vectra 3D flea/tick repellent for dogs, free collars, leashes, and much more –including  nail clipping, thanks to Salty Paws, will be available at the Fort Bragg Food Bank, on, Friday, June 2nd, from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. this is a free services for needy dogs on the coast For more information, call Second […]

Emotions Anonymous  meets every Friday from noon to 1 at St. Michael's Church, 201 E. Fir Street in Fort Bragg Emotions Anonymous is a 12 step program that is for anyone who has a desire to be well emotionally. This is a good way to get some extra help with stress, anxiety, depression or any […]

Each Friday afternoon Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens offers a guided mindfulness meditation. Each class will have time for questions and a short wisdom teaching to apply to your everyday life. There are benches to sit on or you can recline in the grass and gaze at the sky the practice will be open and inclusive […]

The Mendo Film Festival presents Squaring the Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis) at Coast Cinema In 1968, art students Storm Thorgerson and Aubrey “Po” Powell made a trippy photo collage for their musician friends Syd, David and Roger. The resulting album and album cover, A Saucerful of Secrets, helped launch two careers: that of Pink […]

The Ukiah Library staff invites you to join in Art Walk Ukiah on Friday, June 2nd to enjoy an exhibit by local artist Janet Rosen, titled “Art is Made Here: Painting Local Artists.”  The Ukiah Library will be hosting live music by Tom Aiken and Steve Baird. Meditative painted rock materials will be available for […]

The First Friday at Edgewater Gallery will hightligh the Mixed media works by Rebecca Reynolds Edgewater will host an opening celebration on First Friday, June 2nd  from 5 to 8 pm. Light refreshments will be served.   

It's Art Explorers 23rd Birthday and they will be celebrating on June 2nd , Fort Bragg First Friday from 5 to 7 p.m. at the studio, on . Franklin Street, Come celebrate 23 years of having a nonprofit art studio for people with developmental disabilities on the Mendocino Coast.  Check out all the amazing artwork […]

This Friday will be the soft opening for the Cloud Nine Art Gallery,  North Franklin Street's newest gallery. Come have a sneak peek and meet some of  the artists. The 300 block of North Franklin will be closed off to traffic to facilitate a full fledged block party and BBQ. Come join the fun!

This Friday Pacific Textile Arts at Pacific Textile Arts, will have the open of the show on Bast Fiber of Japan. Before silk and cotton were introduced to Japan, people used the fibers of the native plants or trees, such a hemp, ramie, banana, kudzu and linden tree.  Even today, this tradition of hand processing […]

Fort Bragg kicks off summer Friday June 2 with Downtown First Friday event.  Come downtown for music from the Caspar Kings, street vendors,food trucks and fun activities for the whole family.  It happens at Laurel and Franklin Streets

Mendo File Festival presents Santos: Skin to Skin in the Film Festival Tent Friday night June 2 at 7:30 A film portrait of community activist and seven-time Grammy nominee John Santos, a “keeper of the Afro- Caribbean flame.” Rich in musical performances, the film links the rhythms of Santos’s ancestors to contemporary struggles of identity […]

The  Willits Community Theatre  Hymn to Her, a local production about changes in the evolution of love, romance and courtship over the past 400 years in America, It will show  June 2 through 11.  Tickets are $20 and available online at Willits Theater , and at the door.

If you are a car enthusiast and love the nostalgia of old cars, the sound and fury of dragsters, the art of hot rods, customs, and modified,  you’ll love the Gualala Arts Auto Show on  Saturday, June 3, 8 – 10 am at Gualala Arts Plus live music by the Rhythm Drivers and 12th Annual […]

The Redwood Empire Spring Fair runs June 2 to 4 at the Redwood Empire Fairgrounds in Ukiah. Three days of monster trucks and carnival rides, food, rides, truck shows, boat races, and much more! Full schedule and details at Redwood Empire Spring Fair

The City of Ukiah will hold a spring community yard sale at Todd Grove Park on June 3.  Applications to sell are available at Yard Sale (1) 20 ft wide space is $30.   For more information e-mail mdavison@cityofukiah.comS

June 3 will be the Occidental World Music Festival, inspired by Lark Camp, this event features more than 20 workshops including Balkan singing and dancing, West African drumming, Celtic Harp & Songs, Salsa dancing, Belly Dancing, Bluegrass & Old Time mandolin, Klezmer music, Greek music, Native American music, Spanish music and more.  Plus they will  […]

The 16th Annual Mendocino Film Festival, June 1-4, features films from around the world, visiting filmmakers, special events, and live music performances. Also a children’s program, a Native Cinema program, and many other festival celebrations. Tickets  on sale  at  Mendo Film Festival

The Pop-Up Arts Café will feature and celebrate local artists who have served in the United States Armed Forces or are current active duty and their spouses, and caregivers. Besides the art display, there will be an “Art Car” for kids and kids at heart to decorate, medicine bag workshops, live entertainment from the Scott […]

Saturday June 3 will be the first Noyo Harbor Fish Market of the season.  New this year will be a cornhole tournament, check opens at 10am, bags fly at 11.  Fish market hours are noon to 4 with music and local vendor. PAL, the police actives league, will be serving beer and food.  It's all […]

The Elk Emergency Preparedness Committee will be hosting another Fire Extinguisher Check & Charge event open to all coastal residents at the Elk/Greenwood Community Center, 6129 S. Highway 1 on Saturday June 3rd from 10am - 2pm. Your extinguishers are only certified for 2 years and there is nobody on the coast doing this service. […]

Meet Location: Point Cabrillo Light Station - Meet outside of the Smithy Come learn native coastal prairie and coastal scrub plant species along with some of their pollinators at Point Cabrillo Lightstation Historic State Park with local nature author Katy Pye.  It's an easy walk on flat trails. The hike will be June 3 starting […]

Come learn native coastal prairie and coastal scrub plant species along with some of their pollinators with Mendocino Coast nature author Katy Pye. Easy walk on flat trails at the Point Cabrillo Lighthouse. Meet at the historic Blacksmith and Carpentry shop next to the lighthouse at 10:30am. (the shingled building with the red roof next […]

The Mendocino County Museum is please to offer free admission to all on the first Saturday of every month.

The first Saturday of each month the Friends of the Fort Bragg Library will be accepting your books, LPS, CDs, Audiobooks, and certain extra-special magazines from noon to 3 in the alley to the left of the Fort Bragg Library.  Your donations will help raise money to build a much-needed addition to the library!  

On June 3rd, spend the afternoon at Point Cabrillo Light Station State Historic Park with the Mendocino Coast Humane Society and their adoptable doggies! The 'Borrow a Buddy' program from Humane Society is awesome way to give these dogs the exercise they need, plus exposure to people, cars and other dogs out and about! And […]

Mendo File Festival presents Finding Her Beat in the Film Festival Tent Saturday afternoon at 1pm In the midst of a frozen Minnesota winter, a Japanese drum master and Korean adoptee from North Dakota join forces to assemble the world's best Taiko drummers in a bold effort to claim a cultural spotlight that has historically […]

You are invited to celebrate the contributions and work of cherished Train Singer Greg Schindel on a special Skunk Train departing from the Willits train depot on June 3 at 1:30 p.m.  All proceeds from the event will benefit the well-known singer, now battling cancer, who has entertained tens of thousands of passengers on the […]

This years summer lineup continues with the BEER SCOUTS on June 3. Bring your lawn chairs and coolers to enjoy an afternoon of local talent at the Caspar Beach RV Park Campground, on the garden stage.

Mendo File Festival presents Little Richard: Everything I Am in the Film Festival Tent Saturday June 3 at 7:30 Little Richard: I Am Everything tells the story of the Black queer origins of rock n' roll. It explodes the whitewashed canon of American pop music to reveal the innovator - the originator - Richard Penniman. […]

The  Willits Community Theatre  Hymn to Her, a local production about changes in the evolution of love, romance and courtship over the past 400 years in America, It will show  June 2 through 11.  Tickets are $20 and available online at Willits Theater , and at the door.

Saturday Night Superstars, June 3 will be Pink Floyd from England's Knebworth Festival June 3, 1990

Experience a spectacular night time view from atop the Point Arena Lighthouse for the(almost) Full Strawberry Moon Night Tour. Enjoy a panoramic view of the sea and coast from the lantern room at the top of the Tower, and if the weather cooperates it will be illuminated by the full moon.Docents and guides will help […]

The internship at The Learning Garden at the Noyo Food Forest is an opportunity for high school students (age 13-17) to learn about sustainable gardening, gain valuable job experience, and explore our local food system while being paid. For all the details go to Noyo Food Forest webpage. The deadline to apply is June 9

The Redwood Empire Spring Fair runs June 2 to 4 at the Redwood Empire Fairgrounds in Ukiah. Three days of monster trucks and carnival rides, food, rides, truck shows, boat races, and much more! Full schedule and details at Redwood Empire Spring Fair

The Redwood Waste Solutions new Mobile CRV Redemption Facility is at Sundays at Mendocino K-8 School from 8:30 to 5:30 and on Mondays at the Caspar Community Center from 8:30 to 5:30. Alongside the mobile operation, the search for a permanent location for CRV Redemption in the Fort Bragg area will continue

The Mendo Film Festival presents Squaring the Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis) at Coast Cinema In 1968, art students Storm Thorgerson and Aubrey “Po” Powell made a trippy photo collage for their musician friends Syd, David and Roger. The resulting album and album cover, A Saucerful of Secrets, helped launch two careers: that of Pink […]

The 16th Annual Mendocino Film Festival, June 1-4, features films from around the world, visiting filmmakers, special events, and live music performances. Also a children’s program, a Native Cinema program, and many other festival celebrations. Tickets  on sale  at  Mendo Film Festival

For years Captain Fletcher's Navarro Inn by the Sea was restored cared for and to become functioning place. Mendo Parks began care of the property a year or so ago.  They are asking the community of volunteers to help keep the doors open through the Summer season, so they can continue to provide a fun […]

June 4 will be Pepper Martin day, a softball fundraiser for the Elk children’s summer program. Hot dogs, ice cream, margaritas and 2 ball games, one for the kids at 1PM and one for the adults at 3. Bring a glove! At Sinclair Field near the Elk Community Center. Sunday, June 4.

The  Willits Community Theatre  Hymn to Her, a local production about changes in the evolution of love, romance and courtship over the past 400 years in America, It will show  June 2 through 11.  Tickets are $20 and available online at Willits Theater , and at the door.