Anderson Valley

Bird’s Eye View (July 23, 2014)

by Turkey Vulture

Pat Hulbert has been announced as The Grand Marshall at this year’s Mendocino County Fair in September. The Hulberts arrived in the Valley in the 1920s while…

July 23, 2014No CommentRead More

New Science Program At AV High

by George Lee and Bill Sterling

Anderson Valley High School (“AVHS”) is one of six high schools in Mendocino County selected earlier this year by Sonoma State University (“SSU”) to receive (a) professional…

July 23, 2014No CommentRead More

Mendocino County

Mendocino County Today: Tuesday, July 29, 2014

by AVA News Service

WELCOME HOME, SGT. BERRY (Note: This is an updated version of last night’s post. It includes a cursory account of where…

July 28, 2014No CommentRead More

Honey Oil Production Explodes In Mendocino

by Adrian Baumann

Last month in Ukiah, Wayne Briley stood in front of the board of supervisors waving a hash oil extractor, an empty…

July 24, 2014No CommentRead More

The Ketchup Kaper

by Bruce McEwen

“It was all over a bottle of ketchup — this alleged shooting — along with some missing cheese and beer,” Public…

July 23, 2014No CommentRead More

Willits Bypass Timeline

by Will Parrish

In Willits, many people have not taken kindly to the California Department of Transportation's asphalt imperialism, which entails spreading more than…

July 23, 20141 CommentRead More

Essays

Local Folks, Part 1

by Marshall Newman

Although I have been writing articles about my time in Anderson Valley from the late 1950s to the late 1980s for more than two years, I have…

July 24, 20141 CommentRead More

Whatever Happened to the Old House Piano?

by David Yearsley

In our present digital age many once-beloved pianos are junked rather than sold, as a trying NY Times video of a couple years ago unsparingly dramatizes. Yet…

July 24, 2014No CommentRead More

Preaching The Truth (Patrick Ford, Part 4)

by Dave Smith

Author’s Note: For the first time in over seven years, the Ford brothers — Mark, Patrick, and Robben — will share the same stage — and it…

July 24, 2014No CommentRead More

Barbara McNair’s Unsung Heroism

by Fred Gardner

When Barbara McNair died in February of 2007, not a single obituary mentioned her role in bringing down the lawyer who effectively owned Erhard Seminar Training (est)…

July 24, 20143 CommentsRead More

The Battered Bastards of Baseball

by Malcolm Macdonald

Critics still argue about which book might qualify as the greatest American novel. Moby-Dick, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and numerous others have been put forth as candidates.…

July 23, 2014No CommentRead More

Heaven & Hell

by Todd Walton

On their way to a matinee of the San Francisco Ballet, Roger and Susan must stand for the entire journey in a crowded subway car. They are…

July 23, 2014No CommentRead More

Online Dating: Are You Game?

by AVA News Service

To protect my identity, I am going to call myself Bonnie. To give you some history, I was in a relationship that broke up and I was…

July 17, 2014No CommentRead More

Letters to the Editor

Letters (July 23, 2014)

A Response to the Recent Grand Jury Report about Mendocino Animal Care Services: Having been a volunteer at the Mendocino County Animal Care Services Shelter in Ukiah…

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Sustainable Ag 116

Mendocino College is offering a new class on sustainable farming. Agriculture 116 (Fall 2014): Sustainable Agricultural Systems…

Max Dashu!

Janie Rezner’s guest on Women’s Voices, KZYX, August 4 at 7pm PT, will be scholar Max Dashu,…

Dustbowl Revival

Sundays in the Park Concerts, Sunday July 27th On Sunday, July 27th in Todd Grove Park at…

Mays On Wood!

Working With Wood: Laura Mays talks on history of College of the Redwoods Fine Woodworking Program by…

Cloverdale TomatoFiesta

The Soil King Garden Center in Cloverdale is planning the first annual Cloverdale TomatoFiesta on Saturday, August…

Caged Mendo

Local Filmmaker’s Encore Screening of The Cage Encore Screening of Locally Made Film “The Cage” Peter Wells…

The 32nd Annual Round Valley Blackberry Festival

Mark your calendars. The 32nd Annual Round Valley Blackberry Festival will be held this year on August…

Rising Stars Music Showcase Searching for Musicians and Vendors

Rising Stars Music Showcase is a multi-musician, multi-genre competition in which musicians from Lake and Mendocino Counties…

Mendocino County Today: Monday, July 28, 2014

Goat Herding; Before Krukow; Early Acorns; Elsie Whipple; Suicide Net; Shower Bus; Verbal Abuse; Humco Squatters; Israel’s Attack; Humco Weed Events; Measure Arrh; Red Abalone; Catch of the Day…

Mendocino County Today: Sunday, July 27, 2014

Terrorism at Home; Navarro Algae; AVHC Board Agenda; Music Director Needed; A Girl; Light Cries Foul; Keyboard Shortcuts; Print On; Catch of the Day; Gualala Demonstration; Oily…

Mendocino County Today: Saturday, July 26, 2014

Hot Week; Dry Times; Newspaper Turnips; River Gone; Dangerous Literature; WPA Mural; Politicians; Catch of the Day; Enemy Radio; Gaza 2009; The Gatekeepers; Federal Buzzkill; Water Waste; Five Bells…

Mendocino County Today: Friday, July 25, 2014

Forgotten People; Geyserville Truth; The Deserters; Two-Hour Execution; Mendocino College; Supes in Covelo; Input Here; Ukiah Chemists; Catch of the Day; Crackpot Wisdom; Disproportionate Force; Sanctuary Forest; Israeli Insanity; Jim…

Mendocino County Today: Thursday, July 24, 2014

Pinches Endorses Woodhouse; Attorney Wanted; Remembering Susan Keegan; Catch of the Day; Pounding Gaza; Radio Interview with Ray McGovern; DWR Billing Problems…

Mendocino County Today: Wednesday, July 23, 2014

Cop Stress; Anderson Valley Secrets; Israel/Palestine; Doc Loyalty; Operation Yurok; Caffrey Responds; Tweek n Ride; Research Library Expansion; Israel Protest; Shrinking Palestine; Catch of the Day; Government Entrapment…

Mendocino County Today: Tuesday, July 22, 2014

County Labor Problems; Mendo Film Tradition; Audibly Nuts; Great Conversation?; Catch of the Day; Demon Alcohol; Cummings Bio; Corked Wine; Arselickin Bad; Oil Population; NYT Cheers Israel; Fight…

Mendocino County Today: Monday, July 21, 2014

Balo Grading; County Priorities; WPA Mural; Huffman's Errand Boy; FB Reservoir Public Hearing; Computer Scam; Who Are You?; Chips for China; Catch of the Day; Weed…

Valley People (July 16, 2014)

DR. MARK APFEL has been relieved of his duties as medical director and chief medical officer at…

Valley People (July 9, 2014)

THE SAD NEWS has reached us from Arizona that Sandy Liebig has died. Sandy and her husband…

Valley People (July 2, 2014)

TWO LOCAL CALLERS this week were alarmed at the swathes of dead trees they could see on…

Valley People (June 25, 2014)

THE GIRLS of my youth never looked like this! Boonville hosted the Sierra Nevada World Music Festival…

Valley People (June 18, 2014)

THE BOONVILLE GRADUATION drew a large crowd for Anderson Valley, the largest I've seen. Children of Mexican…

Valley People (June 11, 2014)

BRIAN MURPHY chips in another drought indicator: “California buckeyes are a good indicator of soil moisture as…

Valley People (June 4, 2014)

At 5:16am the Boy Scout Camp, Navarro, reported a “combative, hallucinogenic (sic) patient. A 500-person “juggling fair”…

Valley People (May 28, 2014)

MEMORIAL DAY came and went without discernible pause from the beer and great hunks of grilled meat…

Letters (July 16, 2014)

Don MacQueen, 88, a long-time AVA subscriber and contributor, died in Eugene, Oregon, on June 28, 2014.…

Letters (July 9, 2014)

I think it is outrageous that the AV Health Care Center has suspended the dispensary of medications.…

Letters (July 2, 2014)

Privatization of Mental Health Services failed. Proof lies in: two Grand Jury Reports, Mental Health Board Reports,…

Letters (June 25, 2014)

I have received a report that the manager of Raley’s in Ukiah is hassling petitioners. Here is…

Letters (June 18, 2014)

I only met John Sakowicz once. It was sometime after Wall Street and the “investment bankers” had…

Letters (June 11, 2014)

I have some news for John Sackowicz, Ukiah's self-anointed "people's tribune" and windbag-about-town, as well as for…

Letters (June 4, 2014)

Regarding the frost fan controversy, I’m curious about the decision-making process local grape growers used that produced…

Letters (May 28, 2014)

As a Mendocino employee I would say your reporting on the contract negotiation snafu has been pretty…

Off the Record (July 16, 2014)

COUNTY AUDITOR Meredith Ford’s proposal to hire herself as an “extra-help” trainer for her replacement, Assistant Auditor…

Off the Record (July 9, 2014)

ED KOWAS is gone, dead of a heart attack at 73. His talk show on KMFB out…

Off the Record (July 2, 2014)

THREE Point Arena High School students died Sunday morning in a 4am, single-car crash on Highway One…

Off the Record (June 25, 2014)

ROANNE WITHERS HAS DIED at age 61. A long-time environmental activist based for years in Fort Bragg,…

Off the Record (June 18, 2014)

COUNTY CEO Carmel Angelo has included a $45,000 remodeling project at the County Jail in the 2014-15…

Off The Record (June 11, 2014)

BIG TROUBLE IN COVELO seems to be heading in the ominous direction of a revival of the…

Off the Record (June 4, 2014)

THE THREE PERSONS arrested earlier this week in a Fort Bragg DEA raid, complete with helicopter, are…

Off the Record (May 28, 2014)

MENDOCINO COUNTY is less broke than it has been, CEO Carmel Angelo told her captive board of…