Anderson Valley

Bird’s Eye View (June 21, 2017)

by Turkey Vulture

Please remember to keep the windows cracked if you leave pets in your vehicle. if you don't they will die a horrible death. “Signs that the Apocalypse…

June 21, 20171 CommentRead More

Mendocino County

Mendocino County Today: Tuesday, June 27, 2017

by AVA News Service

Waggoner Memorial; Murray Service; Boats Collide; Deputy Walker; Pearl Pinson; Algae Carpet; Vagrancy Act; Concrete Remnant; Elk BBQ; Poster Project; Navarro River; CERT Class; Comfort Dogs; AB 1250; Boonville 1945; Whine Industry; SMART Starts; Little Dog; Bypass Statement; Yesterday's Catch; SF…

June 26, 201724 CommentsRead More

The Wolfe At The ATM

by Bruce McEwen

Last week we met Kendall Kice who had her bank account ripped off by Bobby Roston. This week we meet Clifford…

June 21, 2017No CommentRead More

Off the Record (June 21, 2017)

by AVA News Service

A STOLEN 18-WHEELER has fouled the cleanest stretch of the South Fork of the Eel west of Laytonville near the Heath…

June 21, 2017No CommentRead More

Essays

No Woman, No Cry

by Spec MacQuayde

Monday morning I debated making a trip over the hill to the Ukiah valley where our watermelons and sweetcorn might be needing water. At the Mosswood Market…

June 21, 2017No CommentRead More

Black Like Me: Wanna Be An African-American?

by Jonah Raskin

Would you darken your complexion and walk in the shoes of a black man in America today? Probably not, especially with police shootings of unarmed black men,…

June 21, 20171 CommentRead More

The Dynamiter With A Cig In His Lips

by Manuel Vicent (translated by Louis S. Bedrock)

The entire French Resistance against the Nazis can be encapsulated in this film sequence: a man—a loner, standing and leaning on his bicycle, smokes a cigarette alongside…

June 21, 2017No CommentRead More

DA, Feds Fiddle While Fort Bragg Burns (Part 5)

by Mark Heimann and Bruce Anderson (1999)

In September of 1987 the Fort Bragg library was burned to the ground at the corner of Main and Laurel. The arson also destroyed the adjacent Ten…

June 21, 2017No CommentRead More

It’s The Pits: The Miner’s Blues

by Clancy Sigal

I’ve never been down an American coal mine, among the least safest in the world, though have plunged thousands of feet into the dark bowels of British…

June 21, 20172 CommentsRead More

Coltrane At The Bridge

by David Yearsley

The longest John Coltrane solo available on recording is said to be the title track of One Down, One Up: Live at the Half Note made in the spring…

June 21, 20171 CommentRead More

Letters to the Editor

Letters (June 21, 2017)

Regarding the new marijuana sitatuion that has arisen. The County wants to put a bunch of restrictions on the types of land where you can or cannot…

June 21, 20172 CommentsRead More




Museum Lawn Party

[Jul 4] Annual July Fourth BBQ & Lawn Party at the Kelley House Museum, 11 am -…

Labor Troubadour

[Jul 2] Singer songwriter Anne Feeney is performing at the Community Center of Mendocino on July 2…

Summer Feast Dos Rios

[Jul 2] Known widely throughout Northern California, Dance Brigade is presenting its fourth annual Summer Feast, an…

Pig Raffle

[Jul 2] The Point Arena Boosters Club is raffling a butchered and wrapped pig from Zeni Ranch…

Big Band Afternoon

[Jul 1] Most of the Swingin' Boonville Big Band's gigs are at night.  If this leaves you…

Salmon BBQ

[Jul 1] The World’s Largest Salmon Barbecue in Fort Bragg’s Noyo Harbor on Saturday, July 1 is more than…

Resistance Postcard Party

[Jun 28] Caspar Community Center, Wednesday, June 28, 5:30 to 7:30 Share wine, appetizers, information and action with…

Care-a-Van Willits

[Jun 28] The Care-a-Van, Mendocino County's mobile service for dogs and cats, will be at JD Redhouse,…

Mendocino County Today: Monday, June 26, 2017

Administrative Malpractice; Solid Waste; Little Dog; Homeless Problem; Care-a-Van Willits; Bypass Friction; AVUHS 1947; Yesterday's Catch; Kesey 1967; Atmospheric Railway; Two Dads; Dogging It; Ferlinghetti 1960; Ultimate Buzzkill; Sexual Life; Crowdfunding Healthcare; Great…

Mendocino County Today: Sunday, June 25, 2017

CalCannabis Labyrinth; Lacking Focus; Grower Ambivalence; Little Dog; Hospitality Comments; Wine Libel; 50 Decibels; Missing Person; Pets!; Yesterday's Catch; Vineyard Labor; NY 1960; Tree Frog; Medical Costs; Hedy Lamarr; Healthcare Grift; Greening Antarctica; Marco…

Mendocino County Today: Saturday, June 24, 2017

Fed Up; Better Hospitality; God's Kitchen; ICEy Reception; Murray Service; Child Pornography; Ukiah Dispensaries; Visible Tanoaks; Hick Musical; AVA Interns; Outlaw World; Little Dog; Some Noise; Managing Fathom; Food Wagon; Reading Links; GJ…

Mendocino County Today: Friday, June 23, 2017

Caltrans Fraud; Hot Day; Carpet Dam; Fort B&B; Roederer Sprinklers; Helping Panhandlers; Motorcycle Pursuit; Homeless Camps; Cranberry Controversy; Gratitude; Little Dog; Calfire Work; Tina's Shirt; Eel TMDL; Yesterday's Catch; U.S.B.S.; Fatherly Advice; Mass Incarceration; Fifth…

Mendocino County Today: Thursday, June 22, 2017

Housely Acquitted; Policing Transients; Road Crew; Inspector Departs; Code Enforcement; Crazy Watch; Help Caleb; Matthew McCoy; Farm Report; Sonoma Besieged; Bats Good; Little Dog; Shelter Report; Quiz Night; McKinleyville Mule; Service Dogs; Hare…

Mendocino County Today: Wednesday, June 21, 2017

Roger Hanes; Barth Apparition; Ruffing Renewal; Village Plan; Coans Plead; Basketball Camp; Summer Driving; Service Dogs; Substandard Work; One Permit; Allman Initiative; Labor Negotiations; Little Dog; Obscene Material; Yesterday's Catch; Cannabis Carbon; Book…

Mendocino County Today: Tuesday, June 20, 2017

Waggoner Memorial; Rasta Turnout; Killer Heatwaves; Toddler Injured; Eel Fouled; Man Injured; Bazillionaire Ranch; Little Dog; Mental Money; Legal Money; Rasta Dog; Tribe Sued; Yesterday's Catch; Drug Sport; Labor Troubadour; Local Movement; Universal…

Mendocino County Today: Monday, June 19, 2017

Heat Wave; Buckled Sidewalk; Highway Accident; Keep OB; Poster Project; Little Dog; Homeless Talk; Care-a-Van FB; BOS Items; Russian Gulch; Immediate Extermination; Chicken Wire; Yesterday's Catch; Enough Loving; Horrid Time; Halibut Boom; Gurney's…

Off the Record (June 14, 2017)

FROM LAST WEDNESDAY’S Press Democrat: "The city is collecting data to understand just how much time police…

Off the Record (June 7, 2017)

WILLITS WEEKLY REPORTER Mike A’Dair picked up an interesting tidbit from the May 16 Board of Supervisors…

Off the Record (May 31, 2017)

BILL ZIMMERMAN is to me what Mike Sweeney is to the editor of the AVA. Zimmerman is…

Off the Record (May 24, 2017)

I WONDER if it ever occurs to the young whippersnappers who comprise most of Mendocino County media…

Off the Record (May 17, 2017)

GEORGEANN CROSKEY has been appointed by Governor Brown to fill the 3rd District Supervisor's seat vacated by…

Off the Record (May 10, 2017)

THE GIANTS could use this kid. Ukiah High School's Karter Koch pitched a perfect game against Rancho…

Off the Record (May 3, 2017)

A SMALL CLAQUE of animal nuts continues to bombard the County Animal Shelter with Public Record Act…

Off the Record (April 26, 2017)

PERSONS of a certain vintage may recall the old assumption about employment: Government work doesn't pay well…

Valley People (June 14, 2017)

RASTAFARIA comes to Boonville this weekend, all weekend. Take it away, Jimmy… A one and a two,…

Valley People (June 7, 2017)

JUDY WAGGONER-ISBELL'S MEMORIAL GATHERING Lisa Kuny writes: On May 26th my beautiful, caring, funny, crazy, giving, mother…

Valley People (May 31, 2017)

JUDY ISBELL NEÉ WAGGONER has died in Palm Springs. Born and raised in Boonville, Mrs. Isbell had…

Valley People (May 24, 2017)

THE ANDERSON VALLEY Unified School District isn't so unified lately. Bad feeling among the district's administrators has…

Valley People (May 17, 2017)

CUSTOMER APPRECIATION GALA! Anderson Valley Farm Supply, Friday, May 19th, which is THIS Friday. Specific festivities kick…

Valley People (May 10, 2017)

I ONCE SAW a tourist couple step tentatively into Boonville's brochure-festooned Chamber of Commerce ad shack, the…

Valley People (May 3, 2017)

DUDE FEST has come and gone. Thousands of beer drinkers descended on the Anderson Valley for Saturday’s…

Valley People (April 26, 2017)

ON THURSDAY, MAY 4TH AT 5:00 PM, there will be a tour of the Denmark Creek Fish…

Letters (June 14, 2017)

In the June 7th article Promo Scam-A-Rama, Mark lumps the Arts Council in with Visit Mendocino and…

Letters (June 7, 2017)

Here at the Mendocino County Jail, my uncle Greg Caudra sits in a wheelchair. According to the…

Letters (May 31, 2017)

As a response to Ukiah’s housing crisis, the proposed 121 home, environmentally absurd subdivision paving Lovers Lane…

Letters (May 24, 2017)

Where are the Republicans in this country? Why can't they stand up to these liberal Democrat scumbags?…

Letters (May 17, 2017)

Most people know Boonville as the birthplace of the famous American pioneer Daniel Boone or the source…

Letters (May 10, 2017)

It is shocking that the Board of the Redwood Empire Fairgrounds would approve the painting over of…

Letters (May 3, 2017)

As many readers of this paper probably know there has been great turmoil within the California Grange…

Letters (April 26, 2017)

There seems to be some confusion about Sonoma Clean Power's offer to include Mendocino County. Maybe this…