STANDARD & POOR’S (S&P), one of the three premier credit ratings agencies in the United States, announced a major upgrade of Mendocino County’s credit rating from BBB to AA-. S&P conducts an annual evaluation of…
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Ed note: a former county Mental Health staffer on the Mendocino Coast wrote the following letter to the Hospitality House Board of Directors earlier this month after being fired from the County when the County…
MICHAEL MONTGOMERY, 21, of Lodi, was arrested for the stabbing death of Fort Bragg's Jonathan Denver, 24, an hour and a half after last Wednesday night's Giants-Dodgers game. Montgomery's father said his son told him…
CORRECTION: IN LAST WEDNESDAY'S print edition of the AVA, we incorrectly reported that Michelle Hanes, of the Hanes Ranch, Boonville, had died of a heart attack. Ms. Hanes mother died of a heart attack, not…
JOY ANDREWS, manager of our Community Services District, informs us that the position of Fire Chief for the Anderson Valley Fire Department has been filled. Andres Avila of Yorkville has begun training and will officially…
DOUG MCKENTY has been fired by KZYX. An affable young family man who lives in Elk, McKenty was offed ostensibly because someone dropped the F-bomb during McKenty's twice-a-month Open Lines program, the only two hour-long…
I'VE GOT IT! I know how to make the America's Cup an interesting event, an event for real boats and real sailors, not these water borne Lego constructs the billionaires get all excited about. Open…
JOHNNY PINCHES’ LAST ACT by Bruce Anderson Johnny Pinches has announced he will not run for another term as Third District Supervisor. Pinches, a Laytonville rancher, has always put the broader interests of Mendocino County…
HUGE TURNOUT Friday afternoon at the Fort Bragg Senior Center in support of the Center's director, Charles Bush. The four women who'd engineered Bush's dismissal did not attend the meeting and have resigned, as did…