Rite-Aid, a retail institution that has outlasted K-Mart, Sambo’s, the Lido, Montgomery Wards, Green Barn Restaurant, Palace Hotel, Palace Dress Shop, a century of Ford dealerships and Bank of America, will close its doors later…
Posts published by “Tom Hine”
I'm not sure you can say it’s a shock if you know it’s coming, but I had known for a while that Ken Anderson was taking his final lap, and it was still a shock…
I knew the guy at the hot dog stand was retiring in a few days so I went to get a Deluxe Dog and talk him into a story on how he spent 18 years…
(Research & fact-checking by Tommy Wayne Kramer) Bruce Anderson owned and edited the Anderson Valley Advertiser for more than 40 years; going forward the newspaper will be online only. He recently met for an interview…
Funny, ain’t it, when we consider all the people dreaming of adulation, recognition and maybe even a standing ovation, that the parade, trophy and star embedded in the sidewalk in front of the new courthouse…
They gathered on a cold Monday in a garden area at a Ukiah retirement home to say hello to John Duffy, and goodbye. Duffy, who went by the name “Duffy,” had been turned loose following…
Arky Vaughan might be the most famous Potter Valley resident ever, and he’s not famous at all. Ask the next hundred people you meet about Arky Vaughan and you’ll get a whole lot of blank…
He was born in Ohio but grew up and lived all around Ukiah. As a Talmage youngster he rolled brakeless Soapbox Derby-style cars down Knob Hill Road into oncoming traffic, crashing through vineyards waiting below.…