by Bruce McEwen
As the sun set on 2011, a flurry of paperwork obscured the murky gun theft from the Sanchez home on Mountain View Road, Boonville. The house was broken into and a variety of sporting arms taken in December of 2010. The Sanchezes were away. The brother-in-law keeping an eye on their place found that the [...]
Refrigerated clouds hovered over Union Square, breathing their wet, cold exhalations against the window panes of the fourth floor of the Kensington Park Hotel. The occasion was San Francisco’s PinotFest, a Farallon restaurant showcase of 30 plus wineries pouring their latest and greatest Pinot Noir to members of the wine selling trade and media. Famed [...]
We all have distant relatives we wish were even more distant, like maybe a couple of galaxies away. The Hanes family undoubtedly wishes that Holly Phillips, “a distant relative,” was a galaxy or two distant. Last April, four methamphetamine users, brought to the Hanes Ranch by a very long distance Hanes cousin named Holly Phillips, [...]
by Bruce McEwen
Judge Richard Henderson found enough evidence at a preliminary hearing last Wednesday to bind Xavier Francis over for trial for the theft of five rifles from the Tony and Kerry Sanchez residence on Mountain View Road above Boonville. Francis’s fingerprints were found at the scene of the crime, but he told Anderson Valley’s resident deputy, [...]
by The AVA
IT’S FAIR WEEK and everybody’s in such a bustle! Staff and presenters are rushing here and there, preparing their booths, displays, arenas, venues, etc. for the big opening on Friday. The mowers started buzzing early Monday morning on the arena where the grass has to be cut meticulously for the big game. Ben Anderson brought [...]
Laura Hamburg’s application for her Boon ville pot dispensary has shot her father in his Supervis orial foot; it has removed the Pot Brigade’s most pot-friendly Supervisor from the rule drafting process.
CSD Director Kirk Wilder was adamantly opposed to the dispensary idea, forthrightly describing medical marijuana as “a bunch of crap” — meaning that he thinks most “medi cal” marijuana smokers have no real medical condition that pot will help.
by The AVA
XAVIER FRANCIS, 19, of Boonville and Ukiah, was arrested at Mendocino College last Thursday on a $50,000 felony burglary warrant. Dogged police work by resident deputies Squires and Walker led to Francis’s arrest. He and several other graduates of LifeWorks Group Home in Boonville are suspected of stealing the guns, which have not been recovered, [...]
Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably then I shall begin. And what better way to do that than to sing the praises of the Guest Chef Dinner held at the Senior & Community Center last Friday evening? Having spent several hours slowly roasting and basting a 70-pound stuffed pig on a rotisserie [...]
by The AVA
DUKE, the big beautiful dog belonging to Nick Rossi and always to be found in the vicinity of Rossi’s Hardware Store, has bitten me a couple of times, not hard but hard enough for me to get the message that the dog doesn’t like me. I thought it was just me Duke didn’t like, but [...]
