MENDOCINO COUNTY has laid off seven more cops, two of them jailers. The Sheriff's Department is already so shorthanded it has no deputies on duty anywhere in the County between the hours of 4am and…
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THE ARE NO Sheriff's deputies on duty anywhere in Mendocino County between the hours of 4 and 8am. If something bad happens between these hours, well, you're on your own. Two very bad things have…
This week: The AVA takes Kendall Smith to court, the Covelo Flip-Out, microwave day and much more...
The "Listserves" hosted by the Mendocino School District’s private internet outfit known as Mendocino Community Network are heavily underwritten out of Mendocino's public school funds. Which is the real issue here, not that anyone has…
DAVE BROADBENT, with his wife Barbara and son Clint at his bedside, passed away early Saturday morning at his home on the Holmes Ranch. Dave had been a heavy equipment operator for Caltrans and the…
AKA, THE RICH Editor, Class warfare — The media are all fretted up over a freshman congressmen who hasn’t yet learned to keep his mouth off certain forbidden topics. Asked about the attempt by the…
Dear AVA, This is Mr. Gutmann, "The One and Only!" You might remember me from an article you published a while back titled "Something Nice" by Bruce McEwen. I was the one who was "supposed"…