AIM IT OVER THERE Editor, You may remember several years back that a cell phone tower was erected outside our gate on Sam Prather's property. At that time there were a lot of “tinfoil hats”…
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MORE THAN A WINDSHIELD Editor, Based on the letter in the June 17, 2009, AVA (“In the interest of justice”), it sounds like Ernest Elliot Sr., “Chief of the Hopland Band of Pomo Indians,” is…
Though I was never a huge fan of the man or his music, there's no denying that Michael Jackson was prodigiously talented, and if I didn't enjoy his classic work as much as a few…
PAPERS were delivered a day late most places last week because of a techno-mix-up at our usually infallible Willits printer, Printing X-Press. A COMMUNITY BLOOD DRIVE will be held at the Boonville Firehouse Saturday, July…
Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably then I shall begin. Good god, it’s been hot! However, there’s no rest for the wicked so here we go. Public Service Announcements: Just one this…
WHEN GOVERNOR SCHWARZENEGGER proposed closing 220 state parks to help ease the $24 billion (and deepening) state budget shortfall, the federal government said that if the state shuts its parks, the feds will take them…
Editor, We are locked down here for the second time this month. I’m reading your June 17, 2009, issue, the one with your poignant “Welcome Rastafarians!” Followed by “See p. 9.” There being only eight…
A few years ago when our state budget problems became a little too spiny to sweep under the rug even when the television cameras weren't on, Governor Meatbag decided to hold a costly "Special Election"…