Category archives for: Announcements

Sheriff’s Log

by The AVA

Sheriff’s Log

8/13 7:59pm A Philo family dispute required the media­tion services of law enforcement. 8/16 9:42am An unidentified 46-year old man piloting a white 2001 Dodge Van was arrested, cited and released for driving on a suspended license. 8/16 12:58pm A verbal dispute between a landlord and some tenants caused neighbors to think a fight was [...]

Charles Davis: May 15, 1960-May 20, 2010

by Bruce Anderson

Charles Davis: May 15, 1960-May 20, 2010

You can be seven feet tall and known all over town, but if you die alone and nobody pays the San Francisco newspaper for an obituary even your mother won’t know that you’re gone. It took almost three weeks for the news of the death of Charles Davis to get back to his mother, and [...]

Tom Smith Dies

by The AVA

Tom Smith Dies

Tom Smith died late Monday afternoon at Memorial Hospital in Santa Rosa from the multiple injuries he’d suffered the previous Thursday in a collision on Highway 128. His passing has shocked the Anderson Valley. He had been expected to survive. The popular Valley resident was headed to his home on Gschwend Road, Navarro, about 7:30 [...]

Ronald Lee Guenther

by The AVA

Ronald Lee Guenther

Ronald Lee Guenther passed away on January 22, 2010 at home with his family by his side.

Boonville Lodge To Close

by Letters to the Editor

Boonville Lodge To Close

Friends of the Boonville Lodge and the Anderson Valley community at large: It is with much disappointment, sadness and regret that Carroll Pratt and I, as owners of The Boonville Lodge, have been put into the position of having to inform the many people who have supported us over the past three years, along with [...]

AV Grange Mart

by AVA News Service

AV Grange Mart

People have been asking if the AV Grange Mart will again be in operation this winter.  The answer is YES.  Several interested vendors have come together to make it happen. The AV Grange Mart is a winter farmers’ market that began last year to fill the gap when the Boonville Farmers’ Market is not in [...]

Panther Soccer 2009

by Steve Sparks

Panther Soccer 2009

Last Wednesday (10/21) the Point Arena Pirates were visitors to the Valley and AV hoped to make up for their poor performance on the coast a couple of weeks ago — a game the Panthers won 4-0 but in which they played well below par. Sure enough, after a slow start, the superior skills and [...]

Fall Chest­nut Gathering

by AVA News Service

Fall Chest­nut Gathering

As promised, here are the plans for Mendocino Permaculture’s 28th Annual Chestnut Gathering and George Zeni Memorial Potluck at the Zeni Ranch on Saturday, November 7, 2009 from 10am until 3:30pm, rain or shine. There is no charge to attend the event. The Zeni Ranch’s 100-year-old dry-farmed chest­nut trees are a testament to the sustainability [...]

Keevan Labowitz from Kenya

by AVA News Service

Keevan Labowitz from Kenya

I found a note in the faculty room at AVHS and think it deserves a broader audience. These are excerpts not the entire text. “What’s up music lovers!? So I am currently living in Kenya trying to help out a new organization that I started. I mainly work in Manyatta, the largest slum in Kisumu. [...]

Alphonse Riede

by AVA News Service

Alphonse Riede

Alphonse Joseph Hingel Riede, born April 10, 1930 in Toronto, Ontario, the only child of Katharine (nee Hingel) and Alphons Riede. Alphons died peacefully after a long illness in Mendocino Coast Dis­trict Hospital. He was 79. Mr. Riede was wid­owed and had no chil­dren. His two cousins, John Joseph Glaser of Cobourg Ontario and Felix [...]

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