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Letters to the Editor

LOSE’EM-ALL LOSES AGAIN Dear Editor, Hello to the great readers of the AVA. This is Timo­thy Elliott once again. I would like to ask for a moment of your time. Again, I am writing to…

Panther Soccer 2010

The first home league game of the season saw the Pirates of Point Arena come to the Valley last Wednes­day for a 4.30 match-up with the hometown Panthers. The Pirates are always a decent team…

Sports Notes

After the season opening loss against the Seattle Sea­hawks, Head coach Singletary should have fell on his sword and accepted responsibility for he debacle by saying “when it's fourth down and less than a yard…

Magical Thinking

“Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believ­ing in government and business.” — Tom Robbins Big game tonight, our Giants scrapping for first place in the National League West, a dozen games left…

Unexpected Encounters With Greatness

Being present at a musical performance of unex­pected greatness is even more memorable than having high expectations met. When I heard Rostropovich with the Boston Symphony under Seiji Ozawa in 1985 play­ing the Dvorak Cello…

‘It Is Well With My Soul’

“Just because I am fat I am not stupid!” I blush. This is my first time in the Senior bus and already I have managed to insult the driver.

Valley People

TWO MEN wanted on charges that they kidnapped and raped a 14-year-old girl who managed a daring escape two years ago in Boonville will be featured on "America's Most Wanted" television show this Saturday night…

Off the Record

This week: Hoyle & Hendry get sued, Aanestad takes over KMEC, Eyster promises to "revisit" Katlyn Long's death and much more

Leaf Us Alone

Joy Greenfield, the victim of the Covelo DEA raid, was recently at my river garden for a joint interview with a French reporter. For show and tell, I pulled out my uncomplicated hand-crank wheat grass…

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