Anderson Valley

Valley People (Apr 23, 2014)

by AVA News Service

DEPUTY SQUIRES has sold his house and he and Mrs. Deputy have done moved to Sonoma County. For almost four decades The Deputy, and he was the…

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Bird’s Eye View (Apr 23, 2014)

by Turkey Vulture

Let’s hope that Sheriff Tom Allman’s unopposed third term in office works better than the ballpoint pens he handed out at a fundraiser I attended. It was…

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Mendocino County

Redwood Valley Going Dry

by Mark Scaramella

Redwood Valley has the most fragile water supply in Mendocino County. Because of its limited storage capacity, the Redwood Valley County…

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‘Cut Away, Barrister!’

by Bruce McEwen

Eric Galloway crossed the double yellow line on the Coyote Valley Reservation north of Ukiah, giving Tribal Officer Greg Salisbury probable…

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Mendocino County Today: Wednesday, April 23, 2014

by AVA News Service

Water Watch; Keeping 128 Clean; Collision in Boonville; PA Deputy Misconduct; In Just; Revolution?; Found Footage Flick; Papa John Thoughts; Police Reports; Koogle Boondoggle in PA…

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At The Frontiers Of Sordid

by Bruce McEwen

Child molestation, traditionally, has been a male practice. But lately in pioneering Mendocino County, home of the world’s best marijuana, women…

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Essays

Curse Lifted

by Todd Walton

The curse that shaped the life of my grandmother, the lives of my mother and her brother, the life of my brother, and my own life, has…

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Natural Wonders

by Bruce Patterson

When I learned that Oregon, in addition to having an official State Flower, an official State Bird, Fish, Gem and what all, also has seven officially designated…

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The Food Of Love

by David Yearsley

Patches of snow cling to the muddy earth in the city’s picturesque nineteenth-century cemetery just to our north. Down in the gorge immediately to our south the…

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Vaccinate!

by Steve Heilig

Vaccination is one of history’s most significant health advances. But California has had outbreaks of measles and pertussis in the past year. California also has a rising…

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Peter Matthiessen, 1927 – 2014

by Byron Spooner

I met Peter Matthiessen once when the Friends of the Library were selling books at the Koret Auditorium in 2001. Matthiessen was featured speaker at a program…

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Prison Tornadoes

by Suza Lambert Bowser

We can't see the city of Decatur from inside this prison, but at 9:30pm, we hear the city's sirens wailing in the distance, alarms that signal the…

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A Second Chance—25 Years Later

by Shepherd Bliss

A “Second Chance,” after 25 years of absence and silence, was recently offered Shepherd by Assumpta. Her email arrived from Europe to his farm. We met in…

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Letters to the Editor

Letters (Apr 23, 2014)

We are writing on behalf of three women, a mother and her two young adult daughters, to express our concerns about your deputies' mishandling of an attempted…

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Workers’ Memorial Day 2014

On April 28th, every year, the Nation celebrates Workers’ Memorial Day. It is a day to honor…

Ticks on the Prowl

May is Lyme Disease Awareness Month by Phyllis Mervine May is the peak season in Northern California…

‘A Field of Dreams’ Benefit for The Willits Grange Farm School

featuring the musical talents of Boris Garcia, an all original jam band that melds “Dead”-like sensibility with…

Wildflower Show!

Unity Club News: Wildflower Show Take a drive this weekend, through beautiful Anderson Valley, to the A.V.…

AVArts: Pie in the Sky!

A Fun, Participatory Anderson Valley Arts (AVArts) Fundraising Event. The time has come for another whacky and…

Conifer Day 2014

Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens is being inaugurated as an American Conifer Society Reference Garden, and we’re celebrating…

Two Spring Plant Sales

It’s almost that time again! The Boonville Farmers’ Market will be opening on May 1 with another…

Groundwater Permits in Mendocino?

Mendocino City Community Services District (MCCSD) wants all property owners to apply for a groundwater permit and…

Mendocino County Today: Tuesday, April 22, 2014

Ukiah Shelter Cutbacks; Guerilla Grower Damage; Electing Nice People; Flab Glab Lib Lab Axis; Water Wars; Roaming Public Nuisances; Goodbye Darlene Kuny; Keegan Case…

Mendocino County Today: Monday, April 21, 2014

Going Electronic; Groundwater Permits in Mendocino?; Marijuana Day; Crackheads & Tweakers; Public Banking; Ravitch v Shanahan; Willits Suicide; He Is Dead; The Grapes of Wrath; Exhibition…

Mendocino County Today: Sunday, April 20, 2014

Pot Grower Fined; Being Priced Out; Fatalities on 101; Baroness Island; Water Squeeze in Redwood Valley; Join the PA Planning Commission; April Rain…

Mendocino County Today: Saturday, April 19, 2014

Lack of Rain; Gas Springs Ahead; Six Californias; A Girl; Empty Country; Boonville Farmers’ Market; Loose Money; Cannabis Drones; Boston & Baghdad; Delta Smelt Win Appeal; Civil…

Mendocino County Today: Friday, April 18, 2014

Tragedy on 101; Higher Education; Palace Escapes Receivership; COR's Fine Woodworking Program; I Think Continually; Gabriel García Márquez Dies; Spain & World War…

Mendocino County Today: Thursday, April 17, 2014

COR Accreditation Worries; Nana's Old Radio; Sandra Rubin's Art; Another Bubble?; Puig’s Backstory; Catching Rainwater; California's Resource Secretary; Defensible Space; Tribes of Mendocino; Police Reports…

Mendocino County Today: Wednesday, April 16, 2014

Local Banking; Vocational Education; Bogut's Bad Night; Doobie Obit; A Service; Modern Medicine; Domestic Box Cutting; Education Fundraiser; Hollyhocks in the Fog; Big Oil in Sacramento…

Mendocino County Today: Tuesday, April 15, 2014

Lunar Eclipses; Wilkinson Murder Conviction; Ukiah Seeks Palace Receivership; Navarro Tweakers; Idiotic Political Conversations; Ukiah Youth Program Ends; Little River Elder Center Closes; Cannabis…

Valley People (Apr 16, 2014)

CAPTAIN RAINBOW and Yvonne Dunton were welcomed home Sunday with a party at The Captain’s Redwood Ridge…

Valley People (Apr 9, 2014)

UNCONFIRMED RUMORS say Captain Rainbow and Yvonne Dunton will soon be back in the Valley. They’d been…

Valley People (Apr 2, 2014)

I NEVER thought I’d write this sentence: “Rainbow has sparked an International incident.” The popular Boon­ville man,…

Valley People (Mar 26, 2014)

MRS. RICHARD, of the excellent Coq au Vin restaurant at Floodgate, Navarro, visited us Monday morning. Gracious…

Valley People (Mar 19, 2014)

Noting the presence of a pump and 3-inch pipe helping itself to the flow near the confluence…

Valley People (Mar 12, 2014)

HENDY WOODS plans to close its campground the weekend of May 3rd. The highly popular Boonville Beer…

Valley People (Mar 5, 2014)

MARCH MIRACLE, take two. Last year we got a nice late rain, and this year we got…

Valley People (Feb 26, 2014)

RESIDENT DEPUTY CRAIG WALKER alerts locals to a couple of mail thefts in the Philo area. Inland…

Letters (Apr 16, 2014)

Anderson Valley Winegrowers Association, neighborhood bullies indeed. I always thought “white noise” was listening to Rush Limbaugh…

Letters (Apr 9, 2014)

It is terribly disappointing the way the trees have been butchered on the East side of Signal…

Letters (Apr 2, 2014)

About four weeks ago I stopped in the County Clerk’s office in Ukiah to find out when…

Letters (Mar 26, 2014)

Just wanted to send a quick “Thank You” to the kind people at Roederer and Lazy Creek…

Letters (Mar 19, 2014)

Thank you for including a likeness of me with Mr. McEwen’s March 12th article, “The Reign of…

Letters (Mar 12, 2014)

Officer Guydan is a real POS. He arrested me on a “domestic” for arguing with an extremely…

Letters (Mar 5, 2014)

The other night at about 9pm after a busy evening of diners, a fight broke out at…

Letters (Feb 26, 2014)

Knowing the problems you have been having with the post office in recent months, I decided last…

Off The Record (Apr 16, 2014)

ANOTHER MENDO COUNTY FIRST, this line from an obituary in Tuesday’s Ukiah Daily Journal: “David enjoyed spending…

Off The Record (Apr 9, 2014)

AS PRINT NEWSPAPERS pass into the frenetic oblivion of the internet — the Newark Star-Ledger is the…

Off The Record (Apr 2, 2014)

THE HISTORIC Wilbur Hot Springs resort near the Lake-Colusa county line was mostly destroyed by fire Saturday…

Off The Record (Mar 26, 2014)

A PERSONAL INJURY LAWYER named Jonathan Hayes of Sacramento has filed a $100k-plus claim against Mendocino County…

Off The Record (Mar 19, 2014)

AN INFLAMMATORY STORY in a recent Chronicle begins, “San Francisco spends $165 million a year on services…

Off The Record (Mar 12, 2014)

ECO-DOPIA, GROUND ZERO, was hit on Tuesday (March 4th) by a multi-agency drug task force. “Love In…

Off The Record (Mar 5, 2014)

THE STATE Public Utilities Commission has rejected a $138 million initiative to bring high-speed internet to roughly…

Off The Record (Feb 26, 2014)

LAST WEEK, COUNTY NARCS hit four indoor grows at Brooktrails, the Willits subdivision.…