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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 can’t just [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
