by Bill Cook
Sheriff’s Log, February 3, 2010: 5:43pm A Yorkville resident heard a male adult screaming for help off Elkhorn Road. The victim soon received emergency medical assistance, and we’d all like to know more about this one, Mr. Law Enforcer. Subscribe now to access our entire site—only $25 for 1 year.
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by Bruce McEwen
“Six, five, four…” the ancient countdown began. “Three, two, ONE!” A last cheer went up at the doomed Boonville Lodge that would close forever in two days.
by The AVA
WILLIAM HOUSLEY kicks off his new business, Vintage Wine Tours, this Saturday (January 9th) with a barbecue and complementary tour of The Valley’s wineries. Be there at Vintage Wine Tours’ South Boonville headquarters, La Elegante, 11-4pm. For schedules please call 707 895-2641.
BARBARA GOODELL alerts us to the 27th annual fruit and grafting exchange on [...]
by The AVA
OF ALL THE FILMS that will be shown at the forthcoming Anderson Valley Film Festival at the Philo Grange the weekend of January 29th to January 31st, don’t miss Rivers of a Lost Coast, a documentary narrated by Tom Skerritt who played the Rev. Maclean in A River Runs Through It.
The matsutakes are emerging along the ridges. If you know where they are you are finding them. If you don’t, you probably won’t. A person with deeper local roots than I have has been schooling me on the subtle art of spotting the slightest puffs of fir down on tan oak leaves, pouncing on them [...]
Glen McGourty, UC Extension Farm Advisor, Mendocino County branch, is paid out of tax money to give free technical advice to grape growers about how to nurture their thirsty grapes.
McGourty’s advice is water-intensive. The growers plant shallow rooted rootstock so growth can be controlled and pesticides delivered via drip irrigation lines. Shallow- rooted grapes are [...]
At 5:08 last Wednesday morning a Boonville woman called 911. She told the dispatcher she lived near the high school and she could hear the sounds of someone breaking windows out at the school.
Anderson Valley’s two resident deputies were not called out to investigate, and no one was sent over the hill from Ukiah because [...]
Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably then I shall begin. Let’s go straight to the topics of conversation under discussion at The Three-Dot Lounge, my favorite gathering place in the Valley at a location known only to ‘those in the know.’
One topic dominated all others among the regulars at The 3-Dot over [...]
The unspeakable was spoken at last Wednesday’s Community Services District board meeting, beginning with an oblique suggestion that airport access fees be increased.
Airport Manager and CSD trustee Kirk Wilder pointed out that the FAA does not like and will not fund airports with “through the fence access.” Wilder also noted that the FAA has determined [...]
A terrible collision on Highway 128 at Yorkville last week took the life of 16-year-old William Landrum Jr.
The young man died Tuesday afternoon, September 1st shortly before 6pm when a Nissan Sentra driven by his mother Rachel Hansen, 36, of Yorkville, traveling at speeds estimated at 55mph, unaccountably crossed into the oncoming traffic lane and [...]
