MISS JACQUELINE AUDET, aka Goldilocks, writes: “Dear AVA, My name is Jacqueline Audet, not Goldilocks! Three times in a row now you have put my picture along with what seems like concern and slander against…
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KZYX'S BOARD ELECTION results are in, and guess who won? Management, of course. The troubled, and nearly broke, public radio station is organized in a way that ensures domination of the board by whomever happens…
THAT HUGE POLICE presence Friday in Fort Bragg was a multi-agency crackdown on Fort Bragg’s persistent gang problem, brown and white. Mexican gangs have rooted themselves in the community as have gangs comprised of both…
HO HUM ELECTION shaping up. Except for the interest in the Congressional race generated by the stark choice between the genuine progressive Norman Solomon and a field of More-Of-The-Same-Democrats leavened only by a few Northcoast…
POT DOC MILAN HOPKINS of Upper Lake is again in trouble with the California Medical Board. Accused of “gross negligence” for writing medical marijuana prescriptions, it's the third time around for Hopkins, 67, since 1979…
THE END OF ENLIGHTENMENT Editor, I’d like, with your permission, to respond to two letters and one article in the AVA of 4 April 2012. 1. To Lee Simon’s letter, “Three Questions”: Yes, good brother,…
THIRD DISTRICT SUPERVISOR John Pinches was reported to have suffered a significant heart attack last weekend and was said to be recovering in Howard Memorial Hospital in Willits as of Tuesday afternoon. A READER CLARIFIES:…
“AN OPEN LETTER to all of the people in Anderson Valley who have expressed their love and concern towards Jamal to clear up a few details. After his travels in India and Central America, he…
RARELY do we celebrate County appointments, but we're pleased to see Karen Wandrei appointed to the second-in-command position at the Welfare (aka Health & Human Services) Department. We very much admired Ms. Wandrei for her…