WHO’S BOMBING HER NOW? By Bruce Anderson Most AVA readers are probably aware, however dimly, that a woman named Judi Bari was nearly killed in Oakland by a car bomb in May of 1990. The…
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THE FAUX MEDITERRANEAN VILLA that seems to have suddenly materialized near the foot of Nash Mill Road has locals wondering who the lavish phantasmagoria belongs to. People by the name of Rennie, we're told. There…
THE AVA's Steve Sparks and Mendocino County Sheriff Tom Allman have been working together for the last year on a book providing a detailed account of the Aaron Bassler double murders of the fall of…
Mendo Film office to Coast Hippies: ‘We Don’t Negotiate With Terrorists’ by Mark Scaramella Back in 1997, Warner Bros applied for a permit to make a movie on the Mendocino Headlands, a state park. According…
THE LOST KAYAKER, the update: Rod Giuliani, the Greenwood Road volunteer firefighter, was dispatched to the Philo-Greenwood Bridge to see if the lost kayaker had floated downstream from where his partner came ashore. Turns out,…
GARETT MATSON OF FORT BRAGG has been arrested again, this time for grand theft, receiving stolen property and embezzlement. Matson's bail is set at a total of $75,000. He has been in trouble for years,…
A CLOSE OBSERVER of municipal lawsuits against the state's Department of Finance summarizes them this way: “We started this project and if you don't let us finish, the City will suffer harm/hardship.” Most of the…
THE ANNUAL RANCHERIA RESCUE, 2012. Usually it happens this way: A kayaker, or a group of them, underestimates the time it will take to schwoosh the rain-swollen Rancheria from Mountain View Road to Hendy Woods.…