Fogbelt Bond Shenanigans
by The AVA
The Point Arena Schools District held its final meeting on Gualala’s elementary school and the $3.5 million bond approved in 2003 to build it.
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Another Very Important Pothead, Lillian Hellman, Medical Marijuana User
by Fred Gardner
This is to nominate Lillian Hellman, the playwright, for inclusion on VeryImportantPotheads.com . The site is run by the highly competent Ellen Komp, whose biographical notes blend scholarship and gossip. I took a class from Hellman in 1961, a few years before Dashiell Hammett and then LH herself enjoyed a surge in public esteem and [...]
The AVA v. Kendall Smith: A Primer
by The AVA
An index of AVA stories, letters and comments about our small claims suit against Supervisor Kendall Smith.
Recommended Reading
Catch/Release by David Ollier Weber, lately of Comptche presently of Placerville. A novel set here in the Emerald Triangle’s most exciting outback venues, mostly along the Mina Road running between Covelo and Alderpoint, Catch/Release begins, “We still pick up hitchhikers in Mendocino County….” Yeah, lots of us do, but only because we know them and [...]
Crime of the Week
by The AVA
Shortly after one last Thursday afternoon, 92-year-old Marie Cleveland of Redwood Valley cranked off a round from her .38 into the tire of an RV parked on her prop erty.
Operation Full Court Press
by Fred Gardner
A reliable source comments on Sheriff Allman’s $1.5 million estimated budget (“which does not include costs of restoration or contingencies”) for the Mendocino County National Forest “Full Court Press” campaign: ”This has all grown out of a federal budget set aside as an environmental initiative to clean up old patches. It was originally intended to [...]
The Listserves Go “Off-List”
by The AVA
The “Listserves” hosted by the Mendocino School District’s private internet outfit known as Mendocino Community Network are heavily underwritten out of Mendocino’s public school funds. Which is the real issue here, not that anyone has ever addressed it. Real issue? Did someone say real issue? One more time: Why is a public school district funding [...]
Richard Kruse & The Dumpster Divers
by The AVA
Debbie Kruse, beleaguered wife of Richard Kruse, the accused child molester from Albion, called the other day. In a chipper voice Mrs. Kruse thanked us for placing photos of her husband and an appealing dog side by side. “My husband is a Shar Pei! Thank you, that was a nice addition to the original article. [...]
Tiburcio Vasquez, Highway Robber
Tiburcio Vasquez was, for a time, the best known outlaw in America and, as described in a just-released biography called Bandito by San Francisco-based John Boessenecker, certainly among the most active highway robbers in America’s flush history of banditry. Vasquez was a Californio, that doomed race of Spanish-descended Californians who began arriving in the state [...]
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