Teri Horton is a 70-something retired long-haul California truck driver who purchased an abstract painting from a thrift shop for $5 as a joke-gift for a friend which, Horton soon discovered, turned out to probably be a multi-million dollar Jackson Pollack painting. But so far, despite heroic efforts, Horton has been unable to prove to the art [...]
Mindy Galliani, Aaron Vargas’s sister, talks about detective Greg Van Patten’s comments on 20/20.
It rained and then it rained some more and just when we thought it was going to stop, it started again and then… it was sunny. No wind- just beautiful, lovely sunshine. So I figured it was time to excavate my son from the pile of toys in the living room and get some air. [...]
Is it “consensual” when a man as an adult engages in sex with another who began molesting him as a boy?
Dan Hamburg is the outstanding candidate for 5th District Supervisor. He has hands-on experience in local government as a Mendocino County Supervisor and Ukiah Planning Commissioner, as well as nationally as a US Congressman. Dan’s work as an environmentalist over decades has prepared him for working knowledgeably to safeguard the ocean and forests from corporate and federal [...]
by The AVA
BUSTS GONE NOWHERE Editor: Based on the anonymous inquiries that I’ve received challenging the assertions made in my May 12 AVA letter to the editor, I submit the following for the record: The thrust of my letter was to question why so many sensational, high profile, drug busts are deep sixed after the fact — [...]
A deeply rural art gallery at the end of a Comptche dirt road is not likely to attract many visitors. Or any visitors. And sure enough its curator, Dan Parker, laughingly says of his remote enterprise, “It’s the only gallery you can’t get to.” And the only one I know of, at least at ordinary [...]
In Mendocino County the marijuana rules are never dry.
Wake up one morning and people are saying the rule is 25 plants. Wake up another morning, it’s back to six. A week later the feds are saying “zero tolerance.”
The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, or CalFire, has announced plans to rebuild their fire station just off 128 southeast of Boonville. The plan includes replacement of the building and all its associated support equipment. During reconstruction CalFire will need a place to house an engine and four firefighters. Last week the Community [...]
Mr. Wayne Schell’s presentation to the Board of Supervisors at their May 17 “Economic Development Workshop” was called “The Ramblings of Wayne Schell. Mr. Wayne Schell was true to his word. So were the unwitting taxpayers of Mendocino County. We paid Wayne $4,000 to ramble. Subscribe now to access our entire site—only $25 for 1 [...]
