To the editor,
I want to acknowledge and commend Mr. Bruce McEwen for the bold journalism displayed in his report in your Off The Record section on March 3, 2010. I respect anyone unafraid to call a spade a spade and not shy away from the facts and truth of matters of importance. It troubles me [...]
Dear AVA,
I was just about to write you to see if you knew whether the documentary “Rivers of a Lost Coast,” featured at the Anderson Valley Film Festival is avail able to the public or not. Then I found an article on the film in the January 2010 issue of Salmon and Trout Steelheader magazine. The [...]
Dear AVA,
I would just like to thank you for sending me your paper and continuing with the awesome work on your end. I only know that it is a pleasure to have your paper passed through my bars by some stupid correctional officer each week.
Conditions are [bleep]ed here in Quentin. It’s dirty, crowded and the [...]
To the editor and all of those at the good old AVA:
I hope all is well there. I was not going to write this story because the last one had me ending up in the office and needless to say I came out on the short end of the stick. But I [...]
To whom it may concern,
My name is Glenn Sunkett. I am an African American citizen and Oakland California resident who is being illegally detained, prejudiced, racially discriminated against, inhumanly traded, and a constant subject of cruel and unusual punishment inside the criminal court system and detention center here in Ukiah, California.
I have been convicted by [...]
Editor,
A blessing in disguise!
Do I have any friends? I’d like to know. / Because the friends that I have they hurt me so. They lie and steal, they stab me in the back. / If these are true friends, then where is the love at? My wife, she cheats, a slut you might say. / [...]
Editor,
I wrote this while I was in Mendocino County Jail wishing that I was out fishing on the beautiful Navarro River with my son Noah. I thought you would enjoy it.
Navarro — It’s 5am and my alarm wakes me up. I brew up some coffee and I pour me a cup. I wake up my [...]
Dear Editor,
I came across your newspaper through a friend and even though I have never lived in Anderson Valley — Healdsburg was the closest I came to it — I feel an appreciation and a concern for it and the people who live there. I also like the fact that you cover real news and [...]
Editor,
A basketball in my hands is worth about $19. A basketball in Michael Jordan’s hands is worth about $33 million. It depends on whose hands it in.
A baseball in my hand is worth about $6. A baseball in Mark McGwire’s hands is worth $19 million. It depends on whose hands it’s in.
A golf club is [...]
Dear AVA,
Thank you for sending your book, “Mendocino Noir”! I received the note to retrieve my book here at Soledad prison from the package room on December 14 but I was unable to actually get the book until December 28 due to being constantly locked down. Being on lockdown here is really ridiculous. Someone gets [...]
