I have been at a loss as to how to go from a post about death to justabout anything else. Suffice to say my dear friend is no longer using her hospital bed. She went peacefully with family and really, what more can you ask? However, amid all the death and esoteric wonderings- the little [...]
California is in the slo-mo process of merging wine and marijuana into two branches of the same Intoxication industry. The merger is still in its early stages, but the outlines of it are starting to appear, especially with Proposition 19, California’s “Regulate, Control and Tax Cannabis Act of 2010,” looking like it will pass in [...]
Wednesday night’s Community Services District meeting at the Boonville Firehouse was uncharacteristically testy, and grew testier as the evening wore on as trustees traded verbal jabs with each other and aimed a couple of body blows at Fire Chief Colin Wilson. The first skirmish arose when the Recreation Committee proposed a “playgroup” at the preschool [...]
by Bruce McEwen
Last Thursday afternoon a nicely dressed woman carrying three A-2 assault rifles walked out of the DA’s office on the ground floor of the Mendocino County Courthouse. It was two days after Mariano Lopez Fernandez, 31, of Boonville, was shot and killed by three deputies in a marijuana garden in the Cahto country west of [...]
by Bruce McEwen
The Golden Old-time Music Camp-Out came to Boonville last weekend for the second time. It used to be in Yreka, way up north. This is the second music festival to relocate to Boonville in the last few years, the first being the Sierra Nevada World Music Festival, not that Sierra Nevada and the Golden Oldies [...]
by The AVA
8/13 7:59pm A Philo family dispute required the mediation services of law enforcement. 8/16 9:42am An unidentified 46-year old man piloting a white 2001 Dodge Van was arrested, cited and released for driving on a suspended license. 8/16 12:58pm A verbal dispute between a landlord and some tenants caused neighbors to think a fight was [...]
by The AVA
This week: Don’t mess with dog people, conspiracy and garbage, DA Lintott and Kendall Smith, plus much more…
by The AVA
MARIANO LOPEZ FERNANDEZ, 31, was shot and killed by deputies last Wednesday morning at a marijuana garden near Branscomb, west of Laytonville. Mr. Fernandez had lived in Boonville at Airport Estates with his wife Jessica and the couple’s year-old son. Mrs. Fernandez, apparently responding to the boorish jubilation at her husband’s death as expressed on [...]
The last American combat brigade in Iraq has left the country, so the Pentagon announced this week. The 40,000 personnel from 4th Stryker Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division began crossing into Kuwait August 19. The US combat mission in Iraq — Operation Iraqi Freedom – is scheduled to end on August 31. The least credible human [...]
by The AVA
WHY WAS GREENFIELD RAIDED? Editor, The federal DEA raid 7/7/10 of Joy Greenfield’s collective, “Light the Way,” magnifies the critical juncture where medical marijuana legalization in the states challenges federal prohibition. Greenfield, 69, aka “grandma grower,” moved to Covelo California from Colorado to grow her own cannabis in order to save her deteriorating eyesight and [...]
