by The AVA
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 [...]
by The AVA
Ronald Lee Guenther passed away on January 22, 2010 at home with his family by his side.
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 [...]
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 [...]
by Steve Sparks
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 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 [...]
The Gowan family once again invited every kindergartener and first grade student to come on down and pick (for a tiny fee) their very own Halloween pumpkin right out of the field where they were grown. Teacher Linnea Totten invited me to come along so I tromped through the sticky brown loam with many chaperone [...]
Wendy Emal gave me a map she had hung in the high school library in 1999 with arrows pointing to the places different students were headed. If anyone out there knows where these students are now please contact me at tryder@mcn.org or call 895-2146. At the time W.T. Johnson was headed to Lassen Community College, [...]
