Anderson Valley

Valley People (Mar 12, 2014)

by AVA News Service

JOYCE MURRAY OF BOONVILLE HAS DIED. Mrs. Murray’s husband, Ross, said that Mrs. Murray passed away Thursday night. She was 87. Joyce Murray was a well-known professional…

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The 2014 Variety Show

by Jerry Karp

I went to the 2014 Anderson Valley Variety Show at the Philo Grange on Friday night and then again on Saturday. As always, the pre-show parade of…

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Mendocino County

Mendocino County Today: Wednesday, March 12, 2014

by AVA News Service

Elder Woods Closure - Hendy Beer Fear - PD Application - Diverse Oligarchs - Bud Tourists - I Will Wade Out…

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Fracking On The North Coast

by Will Parrish

Across geologic time, rainwater sculpts the land into cradlelike entities that comprise a watershed. For the vast majority of inland Mendocino…

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Very Little Of Substance…

by Malcolm Macdonald

What started out as a figurative lynching of KZYX board member John Sakowicz by the remainder of the nine member panel…

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Off The Record (Mar 12, 2014)

by AVA News Service

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

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Books from the AVA





Essays

Kilroy Was There

by Malcolm Macdonald

Snow speckled Middle Street in the North End during the last week of February. Near Mr. Pemberton’s meeting house boys were pelting the dry goods shop of…

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California Water Report

by Jamie Lee

The Federal government just released their first assessment for water allocations for the coming year in California after the driest year on record since they kept records…

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Adventures In Morocco

by Louis Bedrock

The two young Americans were very lucky to have met David on the ferry between Algeciras and Tangiers. Things might have turned out much worse. David was…

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My Oscars™ Scandal

by Steve Heilig

We were ready to have a very nice party, a friend’s big brother’s 21st birthday affair in a fancy house on the cliff over the ocean, a…

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HumCo: Jail Release Dilemmas

by Daniel Mintz

A community forum on county jail release policies put questions to a local panel whose members in turn asked residents to consider what they can do to…

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Google Money

by Darwin Bond-Graham

If you google “money,” the search engine called Google, from which that verbification is derived, will tell you that there are 1.12 billion results (as of February…

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Let’s You & Him Fight

by James Howard Kunstler

So, now we are threatening to start World War Three because Russia is trying to control the chaos in a failed state on its border — a…

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Letters to the Editor

Letters (Mar 5, 2014)

The other night at about 9pm after a busy evening of diners, a fight broke out at the Buckhorn. I guess what bothers me most about this…

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GIRL SCOUTS TO HOST 5TH ANNUAL CORNED BEEF & CABBAGE DINNER

Saturday March 15 from 5-8pm at the Veteran’s Memorial Building inUkiah.…

SMART PLANTS & BEAUTIFUL BIRDS:

Wildlife Film Fest double feature features extraordinary new research and photography.…

BEE THERE OR BEE SQUARE

What’s all the buzz about? A Pollinator Workshop! Friday March 21st…

Superintendent Tichinin Will Not Run For Re-election

On Friday March 7th, Mendocino County Superintendent of Schools, Paul Tichinin…

NATIONAL ADVISORY COUNCIL ON HISTORIC PRESERVATION TO MEET IN OAKLAND ON SALE OF HISTORIC POST OFFICES

The Advisory Council on Historic Preservation (ACHP) will be meeting in…

NO PANCAKE BREAKFAST

at the Grange this Sunday because of the Variety Show.  Join…

MENDOCINO COUNTY APPROVED SOURCE PROGRAM (MCAS) NOW ON-LINE

Local producers of fresh raw fruits and vegetables can now register…

MONTHLY NETWORKING MEETING

Ukiah Conference Center, 200 S. School St, Ukiah Date: March 18,…

Mendocino County Today: Tuesday, March 11, 2014

Last Chance Squandered - Tichinin Endorses Hyphenate - Resource Wars -…

Mendocino County Today: Monday, March 10, 2014

Offshore Quakes - Tichinin to Retire, and Ab Dive - New…

Mendocino County Today: Sunday, March 9, 2014

THE BIG BUST last week of the Love In It Cooperative…

Mendocino County Today: Saturday, March 8, 2014

Goodbye Joyce Murray - Wylie and Galletti to Challenge Tichinin -…

Mendocino County Today: Friday, March 7, 2014

COSTCO MOVES AHEAD. The Ukiah City Council voted 4-1 Wednesday Night,…

Mendocino County Today: Thursday, March 6, 2014

WAGENET WANTS BACK IN. Former 3rd District supervisor Hal Wagenet has signed…

Mendocino County Today: Wednesday, March 5, 2014

ATTENTION AVA READERS. A family medical emergency has put us behind…

Mendocino County Today: Tuesday, March 4, 2014

JOE SCARAMELLA was 5th District supervisor from 1952 until 1970. We…

Valley People (Mar 5, 2014)

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

Valley People (Feb 26, 2014)

RESIDENT DEPUTY CRAIG WALKER alerts locals to a couple of mail…

Valley People (Feb 19, 2014)

FOR THE FIRST time since 1958, Shorty Adams is not behind…

Valley People (Feb 11, 2014)

SKY WATCHERS FROM VARIOUS areas of the County say an average…

Valley People (Feb 4, 2014)

The Moonies owned most of the place back in the early…

Valley People (Jan 29, 2014)

TIM AND MICHELLE MULLINS of Balo Vineyards, Philo, have bought the…

Valley People (Jan 22, 2014)

THE CLOSING of Laughing Dogs Books is another body blow to…

Valley People (Jan 15, 2014)

ABOUT AN HOUR of rain fell on Mendocino County Saturday morning,…

Letters (Feb 26, 2014)

Knowing the problems you have been having with the post office…

Letters (Feb 19, 2014)

I'm writing to let you know that the KZYX Board of…

Take A Look At This

This is an extraordinary letter. Squint at it. I’ve never seen…

Letters (Feb 12, 2014)

KZYX is in big trouble. At least 3 complaints to the…

Pepper Spray 101

Pepper spray and the California prison system go together like peanut…

Letters (Feb 5, 2014)

Let me warn you about a man who was pals with…

Letters (Jan 29, 2014)

This is by far the most stupid idea the Community Services…

Letters (Jan 22, 2014)

The current drought appears to have elevated the Supervisors concern regarding…

Off The Record (Mar 5, 2014)

THE STATE Public Utilities Commission has rejected a $138 million initiative…

Off The Record (Feb 26, 2014)

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

Off The Record (Feb 19, 2014)

A MEETING to discuss the announcement that the College of the…

Off The Record (Feb 11, 2014)

A MEETING to discuss the announcement that the College of the…

Off The Record (Feb 4, 2014)

CONGRESSMAN HUFFMAN visited Boonville High School a couple of weeks ago.…

Off The Record (Jan 28, 2014)

Will Parrish’s attorney, Omar Figueroa of Sebastopol, made the following remarks…

Off The Record (Jan 22, 2014)

IT HASN'T RAINED, really rained, since December of 2012. Now that…

Off The Record (Jan 15, 2014)

THE MENDO County Supervisors, on Tuesday (7th January), voted unanimously to…