Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably then I shall begin. And what better start than to mention the excellent event that I attended on Sunday at the Navarro Winery as part of the movement to “Save Hendy Woods State Park”! A crowd over 200 (about 70% local) gathered to enjoy fine food [...]
by The AVA
CAMP MASONITE-NAVARRO has been sold for $1.9 million, the Redwood Empire Boy Scout Council announced Thursday. The 80-acre property off the old Masonite Road near Navarro has existed as a Scout camp for 57 years. NorthWest Stewards, a Seattle-based real estate investment company, will be the new owner when escrow closes in a few months. [...]
Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably then I shall begin. Having a little dentist work is generally not the most pleasant of experiences but last week I had a check-up, talon polishing, and beak cleaning from the dentist located at the AV Medical Center and was very pleasantly surprised indeed. There was [...]
The squirrels are starting to look a little better every year — not really because of anything they’re doing differently, but in light of the economic situation at least 99% of the rest of us are in. I figure it’s only a matter of time before the squirrel population in at least some parts of [...]
by The AVA
“AN OPEN LETTER to all of the people in Anderson Valley who have expressed their love and concern towards Jamal to clear up a few details. After his travels in India and Central America, he came back to Anderson Valley and set a course for himself of deep reflection. He was doing a solo retreat [...]
Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably then I shall begin. Well, good readers, it’s good to be back from the “real world”! Following my mysterious disappearance (that I could not possibly comment upon) I have returned to The Nest and I’m once again fully energized and ready to observe and comment. And [...]
I was barefoot, shirtless, soaking in the sun while my eyes tried to focus on the spindly carrot sprouts protruding from warm sand, deliberating to discern the carrots from crabgrass that should not really have germinated so early in the spring. The hoe I used was revolutionizing my carrot cultivating technique; it originated with my [...]
by The AVA
GWEN SIDWELL of Boonville has died at age 88. A long-time resident of the Anderson Valley, Mrs. Sidwell had been married to Bill Rapp, for years the science teacher at Anderson Valley High School. She eventually married the widowed Lee Sidwell. The couple made their home south of Boonville near the Cal Fire station. A [...]
As I drive into Anderson Valley on Highway 128 for my occasional visits, I see mental snapshots taken during my childhood in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Sheep at Hulberts. J.T. Farrer’s store in Boonville. Apple trees and cattle at Schoenhal’s. The little red schoolhouse — then painted white and used as the kindergarten, [...]
by The AVA
IF IT RAINS hard for eight solid hours, as it did a week ago Tuesday, 128 at Navarro will be closed at Flynn Creek. Sure ‘nuff. The gates were drawn across the highway Tuesday afternoon and opened Wednesday about noon. The Navarro River rises fast even if the ground isn’t saturated, which it wasn’t before [...]
