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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
by The AVA
ERIC TRIFILO, 41, of Boonville, driving alone, died some time between late Sunday night and early Monday morning when his vehicle unaccountably veered off Highway 128 near the junction of Elkhorn Road at mile marker 41.71, coming to rest on its roof in a streambed some 40 feet from the highway. The accident was reported [...]
by The AVA
TWO LOCAL MEN were arrested Friday afternoon (16 March) in a raid on the Hutsell Lane, Boonville, home of Vince Ballew, 45, a long-time resident of the Anderson Valley. Also arrested was Dino Mariani, 40, another long-time Valley resident and Iraq war veteran. Mariani presently resides in the Navarro area.Subscribe now to access our entire [...]
