Anderson Valley

Bird’s Eye View (Sept. 21, 2016)

by Turkey Vulture

Let’s get straight to the topic of the week at The Three-Dot Lounge: The County Fair. …Friday evening. It seemed to be a smaller crowd than in…

September 21, 2016No CommentRead More

Panther Soccer (Sept. 21, 2016)

by Coach Steve Sparks

Last Wednesday, the team played the second of four potentially crucial games against one of the two perennial rivals for the league title. The team traveled to…

September 21, 20161 CommentRead More

Mendocino County

Mendocino County Today: Monday, Sept. 26, 2016

by AVA News Service

102 IN BOONVILLE by 1pm Sunday. The Weather Underground, the least inflammatory weather site, never exaggerates, so it really was over…

September 25, 20163 CommentsRead More

KZYX Board Goes To Point Arena

by Sheila Dawn-Tracy

In response to requests from South Coast members, the KZYX Board met for the first time in its twenty-six years of…

September 21, 2016No CommentRead More

Sending The Message That’s Seldom Received

by Bruce McEwen

Judge David Nelson didn’t want to send Jared Soinila to prison for gross vehicular manslaughter — Count One, and Count Two,…

September 21, 2016No CommentRead More

Off the Record (Sept. 21, 2016)

by AVA News Service

WHERE’S WOODHOUSE? No one is offering any substantive explanation, just vague references to a “personal family situation,” but the third district…

September 21, 20164 CommentsRead More

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Essays

Slowly, Then All At Once

by James Howard Kunstler

The staggering incoherence of the election campaign only mirrors the shocking incapacity of the American public, from top to bottom, to process the tendings of our time.…

September 21, 2016No CommentRead More

Luz

by Todd Walton

So it’s Friday and I’m having one of those mornings where I feel certain the universe is an all-powerful sentient being picking on me for no good…

September 21, 2016No CommentRead More

Escaping The Teenage Wasteland

by John Ulysses Keevan-Lynch

 “Adults should face the fact that they don't like adolescents,” wrote Leon Botstein, president of Bard College, shortly after the Columbine school shooting in 1999, “and that…

September 21, 201613 CommentsRead More

Post-Brexit At The Proms

by David Yearsley

London — Like the Brits themselves the weather on the last weekend of the BBC Proms—the biggest and longest-running music festival in the world—couldn’t make up its…

September 21, 2016No CommentRead More

Relationship Probs

by Flynn Washburne

You should never refuse a friend a favor, I thought to myself. You ought always be one upon whom counting can be done, like an abacus or…

September 21, 2016No CommentRead More

The National Indian Museum

by William J. Hughes

Wounded Knee. Enough said? Reason enough to be going to Washington DC to see the new National Museum of the American Indian. Not that the massacre history…

September 21, 2016No CommentRead More

Letters to the Editor

Letters (Sept. 21, 2016)

Back in the days when the Philo radio station began its day with the NPR news program, a lady came in each morning to open the door…

September 21, 20161 CommentRead More


Candidate Forums

[Sep-Oct] On-Line Candidate forums on MendocinoTV.com Live call-in (964-0101) candidates forums on MendocinoTV.com Sept 28, 6pm -…

Abalone Cook-Off & Festival

[Oct 8] 2016 World Champion Abalone Cook-Off & Festival Saturday, October 8th, Noyo Harbor, Fort Bragg, CA Featuring live music,…

Forest Defense March

[Oct 1-4] A four day, 54 mile walk to honor and protect the land October 1st –…

Zydeco Dance Party

[Oct 1] The Anderson Valley Grange, KZYX, Navarro and Roederer Estate Wineries are sponsoring a Zydeco Dance…

Ford Brothers in Navarro

[Oct 1] Ford Brothers Blues Band Featuring Robben Ford Live at Navarro Store Amphitheater October 1 Showtime 5pm…

Care-a-Van in Boonville

[Sep 28] The Mendocino County Animal Care Services Care-a-Van will be rolling into Boonville on Wednesday, September…

Remembering Herb Ruhs

[Sep 25] There will be a memorial gathering for Herb Ruhs at the Caretaker’s Garden, Lambert Lane,…

Whitesboro Pancake Breakfast

[Sep 25] A traditional pancake breakfast will be served at the Whitesboro Grange on Sunday, September 25th. Breakfast…

Mendocino County Today: Sunday, Sept. 25, 2016

Saving Navarro; Hot Days; Road Signs; Election Observers; Prop 63; Tragic Echo; Fare Sprint; Taco Bellers; Human Depredation; Yesterday's Catch; Dark Net; Pancake Breakfast; Righteous Empaths; No Hurry; Arrest Techniques; Tuition Legislation; Marco…

Mendocino County Today: Saturday, Sept. 24, 2016

To Autumn; MH Questions; Short Rounds; Plastic Bags; Boonville Water; Air Galore; Medicinal Cannabis; Legalization Brainstorming; Lighthouse Lodging; Brain Needed; Yesterday's Catch; Sustainable Lifestyle; Debate Prep; Eat It; In Any Case; Climate…

Mendocino County Today: Friday, Sept. 23, 2016

Buckhorn Closure; Andrew Dziki; AF Position; Pot Initiatives; DUI Verdict; Miller v Skaggs; Abalone Cook-off; Water Emergency; Coast Democrats; Hillary Libs; Police Reports; Modern Scumbags; MRC Fear; Nancy's Statement; Mendo Wall; Lost…

Mendocino County Today: Thursday, Sept. 22, 2016

Mental Health Meeting; Zinnias; Ukiah Fires; MRC Tax Haggle; New Cafe; Pot Slaves; Supes Reject AF; Artsy Destination; Malcolm Grousing; Prop 55; Yesterday's Catch; Outdoor Lifestyle; On Traveling; Defying Physics; Sorry; Watermelon…

Mendocino County Today: Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2016

Woodhouse Incapacitated; Turner 911; Hare Creek; Taj-MaTransfer Station; Chestnut Street; County News; Pumpkin Truck; Trump Vandalized; Mendocino Voice; Remembrance Day; Bulgarian Farmers; Footpath Assault; Yesterday's Catch; Prop 64; Artists Confab; Mixed Up; Donald…

Mendocino County Today: Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2016

Andrew Dziki; Yorkville Chopper; Jessie Martin; Where's Woodhouse; AF Details; DechterVision; Wretched Excess; BoonQuake; Hare Creek; Invincible Rodriguez; 2-hour Parking; Hillary Photo; AVA Visitors; Pygmy Station; Logging Suspended; Prop 61; Housing Extortion; Giant Meteor; Renner…

Mendocino County Today: Monday, Sept. 19, 2016

Hulbert Memorial; Motorcycle Fatality; Apple Bowl; Spotlight Poachers; Bus Stops; Mendo Faces; Fair Parade; Hare Creek; Mental Health; Porn Prop; Autumn Bears; Yesterday's Catch; Dog Gone; False Equivalency; AF Insights; No on…

Mendocino County Today: Sunday, Sept. 18, 2016

Closing PHF; Trump Headquarters; Handicap Parking; Locavore Season; Butterfly; K9 Rescue; Building Amnesty; Free Sparks; Yesterday's Catch; Death Props; Commercial Grows; No Chance; Root Cause; Information Age; THP Suspended; Edward Albee; Hillary Hubris; W.P.…

Off the Record (Sep 14, 2016)

ADD TO THE LONG LIST of things I didn't know — Vince DiMaggio is buried in the…

Off the Record (Sep 7, 2016)

CHARLES WALLACE REYNOLDS hit Kenneth Fisher so hard that the one punch killed the Laytonville man. Reynolds…

Off The Record (Aug 31, 2016)

WARREN HINCKLE has died, and already lots of people who hated and feared his work are celebrating…

Off the Record (Aug 24, 2016)

THERE are still lots of people driving around with Bernie bumperstickers. The most annoying ones say, "Billionaires…

Off the Record (Aug 17, 2016)

INCUMBENTS Hammerstrom and Deitz apparently are not running for re-election to the Fort Bragg City Council. Gressert,…

Off the Record (Aug 10, 2016)

AS THE SS TRUMP runs up on the rocks, is anybody surprised that lots of big shot…

Off the Record (Aug 3, 2016)

RICHARD SHOEMAKER, former supervisor from the Ukiah area and career holder of upper echelon public jobs, is…

Off the Record (July 27, 2016)

“BASED ON THE ANALYSIS provided by Mendocino County HHSA, the projected annual cost for staffing and operating…

Valley People (Sep 14, 2016)

DAVID SEVERN WRITES: Welcome to the kickoff for the new face to our Mendocino County Fair and…

Valley People (Sep 7, 2016)

BAD NEWS for downtown Boonville. Claudia Jiminez writes: “This is Claudia from All That Good Stuff. I'm…

Valley People (Aug 31, 2016)

ON THE 24th of September at the Anderson Valley Fairgrounds between 1 and 4pm the friends and…

Valley People (Aug 24, 2016)

INTRIGUING photo of an elk near Elk in the Galletti's even more intriguing purple wheat field. I…

Valley People (Aug 17, 2016)

LORETTA HOUCK has died. Loretta was a lovely, vivacious woman we’d all hoped would miraculously recover from…

Valley People (Aug 10, 2016)

ALTHOUGH formal confirmation is pending, Kathy Hulbert, 57, of Philo, was found dead Saturday morning in her…

Valley People (Aug 3, 2016)

BOB DEMPEL, HOPLAND OLD TIMER, WRITES: I, like you, was saddened to hear of the passing of…

Valley People (July 27, 2016)

EVERYONE who knew John Hulbert is saddened at his passing. A rare son of the Anderson Valley…

Letters (Sep 14, 2016)

The Fort Bragg City Council needs to adopt a completely new approach to the city's development and…

Letters (Sep 7, 2016)

The big battle at the ballot in November is between two local cannabis measures -- the Mendocino…

Letters (Aug 31, 2016)

Just over two months ago, a lifelong resident of Navarro had moved back after almost 7 years…

Letters (Aug 24, 2016)

Currently, Mendocino County does not have facilities for inpatient treatment of psychiatric and substance use disorders. People…

Letters (Aug 17, 2016)

This letter is about the half cent sales tax proposed to be put on the ballot in…

Letters (Aug 10, 2016)

Blake Morrison's short item, ‘Dad’ last week caused me to be again humbled by the remembrance of…

Letters (Aug 3, 2016)

I want to thank all the residents on Mountain View Road and across the county who supported…

Letters (July 27, 2016)

As I read the recent article about the upcoming ballot measure regarding mental health services, I find…