It's still hard for some locals to accept that 150 years ago — five generations, a historical blip — Humboldt County was controlled by genocidaires. Our illustrious forefathers, the settlers of this county, were, in…
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I’m sorry, so sorry.... Please accept my apology... — Brenda Lee, 1960 It’s apology season. Maybe it's like the Catholic church, you go and confess, you are absolved and free to sin again. It's as…
A DEEP BOW Editor & Reed Whittemore, “I hear the loved survivors tell How naught from death could save, Till every sound appears a knell And every spot a grave.” Wrote Abraham Lincon, at 37.…
To the editor and all of those at the good old AVA: I hope all is well there. I was not going to write this story because the last one had me ending up in…
This week: Lintott's glamour shot, a Kent State Truth Tribunal, Angelo enters CEOdom, Hamburg on medipot and much more...
DEPUTY CRAIG WALKER had no trouble the other day picking up a good natured male pit bull in Navarro. The deputy soon deposited the animal at the shelter in South Ukiah. Locals said the dog…
WHO’S THAT POUNDING? To the Editor: On January 28th at about 2:15pm I was taking a shower. About 15 minutes later there was a loud pounding at my front door. I heard some yelling from…
BLACK ELVIS? Bill Taylor writes: “A few nights ago, Wednesday, February 10, around 9:30pm as it was after our AV chorus rehearsal, I was driving on Philo-Greenwood Road and saw a short man in a…
BLACK ELVIS LIVES! The nifty carving disappeared two weeks ago from its long-time pedestal across the road from Jack's Valley Store. Black Elvis had been assumed stolen. But Black Elvis remains in The Valley. Not…