Staff Writer Chris Pugh. (Chris Pugh via Bay City News)

Editor’s Note: We’re very happy to be welcoming Chris Pugh, long time Mendo photographer and reporter, to The Mendocino Voice. Many of you know Chris, he’s a life long Mendocino resident, and he’s been reporting on the area for quite some time. Chris like myself, Editor Adrian Fernandez Baumann, and our publisher, Kate Maxwell, used to work at a Digital First Media paper. DFM owns the four legacy print publications in the county and has been on a spree of cutting jobs and reducing resources for over a decade. We started the Mendo Voice after seeing where things were heading with this hedge-fund own company — we wanted to return local control an accountability. So we’re very happy to have Chris on board.


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Chris Pugh is an award-winning editorial photographer from Ukiah, California. Born and raised in Mendocino County, he is passionate about the arts and is a founding member of the Deep Valley Arts Collective,...

Kate Maxwell founded the Mendocino Voice in 2016 along with Adrian Fernandez. She served as publisher until June 2024 when the Mendocino Voice merged with the nonprofit Bay City News Foundation, led by...