Off the Record
by The AVA
This week: RIP Louis Korn, budget cuts at the Sheriff’s office, Captain Fathom back in the slammer and much more
November 30, 2010 | Posted in Off the Record | Read More »
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November, 2010
Meth, Murder & One Transplant’s Dashed Utopia: The Way It Would End
by Jane Futcher
Close to sunset in early November 2005, two young Ukiah men buzzed on crystal meth drove a white Toyota pickup to a scenic overlook on the south side of Lake Mendocino, a few miles east of town. There they would meet a man nearly twice their age whom they would stab and beat to death [...]
November 30, 2010 | Posted in County | Read More »
Valley People
by The AVA
SUICIDE ON LAMBERT LANE. Derek Hanes, 51, was found dead Saturday morning on Lambert Lane, Boonville. He had hung himself on the property known locally as the Caretaker’s Garden owned by Wendy Blankenheim and Doug Read. The late Mr. Hanes, who also called himself “Free,” was a long-time resident of the Hanes Ranch west of [...]
November 30, 2010 | Posted in Valley People | Read More »
Peter Mugs Paul For Loose Change
How much local property tax money should be allocated to the administration of the Community Services District’s Recreation Committee, Teen Center, and Boonville International Airport??Subscribe now to access our entire site—only $25 for 1 year. Rather pay with a check? No problem— e-mail and let us know. Or, sign in here if you’re already a [...]
November 26, 2010 | Posted in Region/National | Read More »
Time for a Real Mutiny
So much for 2010 as the year of mutiny, when the American people rose up and said, “Enough! Throw the bums out!” As the dust finally clears after the midterm elections, and the bodies are hauled from the field of battle, guess what? It was all so predictable. The safest thing to be in 2010 [...]
Tiburcio Vasquez, Highway Robber
Tiburcio Vasquez was, for a time, the best known outlaw in America and, as described in a just-released biography called Bandito by San Francisco-based John Boessenecker, certainly among the most active highway robbers in America’s flush history of banditry. Vasquez was a Californio, that doomed race of Spanish-descended Californians who began arriving in the state [...]
Booze, A Banker & A Bailout: The Murder Of Mark West Creek
by Will Parrish
The tragic, stranger-than-fiction story of Henry Cornell’s own vineyard and proposed wine production factory reads as a distilled version of the relentless pursuit of the grape dollar by Sonoma County at large.
The 1368
by Bruce McEwen
The kids were sitting next to their mother in the gallery when daddy shuffled in chained to some other prisoners and the guard seated them in the dock. The little girl squealed, “Look Mum — there’s Daddy!” Subscribe now to access our entire site—only $25 for 1 year. Rather pay with a check? No problem— [...]
A Brief History of the Sheriff’s Budget
Back in 1994, the Board of Supervisors unanimously declared that the Sheriff’s “overtime budget appears to be out of kilter.” Sheriff Jim Tuso had spent $900,000 more on overtime than he had in his budget. Money was worth more then and the State of California and the County of Mendocino were still solvent. Subscribe now [...]
November 25, 2010 | Posted in County | Read More »
Off the Record
by The AVA
WILL PARRISH’S truly excellent series on the wine industry can be found in its entirety at theava.com. It’s the first comprehensive investigation of the Northcoast’s dominant enterprise (apart from marijuana, of course) from a critical perspective to appear anywhere. Subscribe now to access our entire site—only $25 for 1 year. Rather pay with a check? [...]
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