by The AVA
THE BEER FEST went off with a minimum of unpleasantness with only a few arrests for drunk in public and several for driving under the influence. Considering there were somewhere between 6 and 7 thousand dudes and dudettes assembled at the Fairgrounds, most of them pounding down the beer as fast as they could, the [...]
Before there was an Occupy Hendy Woods move ment, before there was a Hendy Woods State Park, there was Hendy Grove.
Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably then I shall begin. Let’s start with this update: The monthly Barn Sale on AV Way normally takes place on the final weekend of each month but due to this being Memorial Day Weekend in May, the Sale is a week earlier, on Sat/Sun, May 19/20. [...]
I run for the joy of it by myself in the nights when only the owls and skunks keep me company. Because I was asked to create this year’s t-shirt I felt that it was a perfect opportunity to test the grit of my aging body to see what could be coaxed out of this [...]
Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably then I shall begin. Here’s this month’s birthday boys and girls from among the Senior Center regulars: Joan Spears, Judy Basehore, Jim Lindsey — ‘Many Happy Returns’ to each of them! This coming Sunday, as I hope you all know, it’s Mother’s Day, a celebration honoring [...]
by Steve Sparks
Frank was born in the town of O’Neill in northern Nebraska on February 21st, 1936 to parents Frank Wyant Sr. and Mabel Ross, who five years later had another son, Alan, and then eleven years after that came daughter Connie. The Wyant’s were originally from Germany and it was Frank’s great Grandfather who came over [...]
by The AVA
LONG-TIME VALLEY resident Phil Wasson has died. He was 89 and had been confined by illness to his Peachland home for several years where he was cared for by his daughter, Jan Wasson-Smith. Mr. Wasson descended from a prominent Sonoma County farm family based in the Geyserville area. In Boonville, Wasson grew grapes and raised [...]
Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably then I shall begin. There were attendances of about 100 people at The Grange on both Friday and Saturday for the AV Theatre Guild’s production of ‘Cocktails with Mimi’ and having attended on both evenings I know they were delighted to be there. Director Marcus Magdalena [...]
by The AVA
A FIVE-TON truck registered to Veritable Vegetable of San Francisco overturned on 128 Monday shortly before noon about a quarter mile from the Yorkville Fire Station. The truck, which had just made a stop at Boonville’s Boont Berry Farm, was southbound empty after delivering the organic produce Veritable specializes in to markets from Boonville to [...]
In late January of this year, the Anderson Valley PTA’s vice president, Nicole McLain, learned that two PTA checks totalling over $2,300 written to the group’s president, Bronwen Hanes, signed by Ms. Hanes, had bounced when Ms. Hanes tried to deposit them in her personal account. Ms. Hanes denied writing the larger of the two [...]
