by Todd Walton
“Humor is just another defense against the universe.” — Mel Brooks Once upon a time, so many years ago it might have been another lifetime, I got two kittens, a boy and girl, and after much thought and research named them Boy and Girl. Boy was an orange tabby, Girl was a gray tabby, and [...]
by The AVA
A HUGE GOVERNMENT raid on the Robinson Rancheria began early Tuesday morning aimed at removing certain Indians from both the reservation rolls and rez housing. The caller alerting us to the purge declared, “It’s a helluva note when you get Indians throwing other Indians out on to the street. There are a lot of little [...]
by The AVA
MASSIVE FISH & GAME interdiction this morning at the Boonville Fairgrounds with as many as 40 game wardens stopping vehicles to search for illegally taken abalone. Look for a full account of Sunday’s attempt to crack down on Coast ab poaching in Wednesday’s AVA. DAVID GURNEY writing from Glass Beach, Fort Bragg: “This morning’s low [...]
by The AVA
RYANE SNOW has passed away. The popular Coast mycologist was best known for generously sharing his vast knowledge of mushrooms with three generations of locals. Snow, who held a PhD in chemistry, was the go-to mushroom guy on the Mendocino Coast. He’d lived in Mendocino County since 1982. ABSENTEE BALLOTS were mailed out to Mendo [...]
by The AVA
THE CITY OF FORT BRAGG has presented the late Vern Piver’s family with a proclamation honoring the universally popular Piver, known and admired thoughout Mendocino County, for his many years of community service. The new flagpole at the high school varsity baseball field features a plaque at its base in memory of Piver, among the [...]
by The AVA
MENDOCINO REDWOOD COMPANY is selling 1,138 acres of timberland in three parcels for $3.7 million. One parcel is 589 up the Noyo River Valley east of Fort Bragg. The other two are near Montgomery Woods. Mendocino Redwood, owned by the Fisher family of San Francisco and GAP clothing, maintains 229,000 acres in Sonoma and Mendocino [...]
by The AVA
CHRIST JESUS SAVE US ALL! According to the most terrifying press release we’ve ever received, Stacey Lawson has announced the formation of her “Mendocino County Leadership Cabinet,” not one of whom has the slightest influence with any more or less cognizant Mendo Person but there’s an ongoing debate as to the reach of cognizance in [...]
by The AVA
LAWSUIT Challenges Four-lane Willits Bypass Freeway That Would Destroy Wetlands, Salmon, Rare Plants. SAN FRANCISCO— The Center for Biological Diversity, Willits Environmental Center, Redwood Chapter of the Sierra Club and Environmental Protection Information Center (EPIC) filed a lawsuit in federal court today challenging the approvals and environmental review for the Willits Bypass, a proposed four-lane [...]
by Todd Walton
“Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else.” — Blaise Pascal Marcia and I watched the movie Source Code last night and I loved it. I very rarely watch American movies and almost never watch films containing [...]
by The AVA
THE PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARY, TUESDAY, JUNE 5TH, 2012 — THE AVA RECOMMENDS: • PRESIDENT: There’s no choice. Both candidates represent the concentrations of wealth that have brought us to where we are, which is rolling, unaddressed catastrophes negatively affecting every area of American life. We suggest a vote for Rocky Anderson, former mayor of Salt Lake [...]
