COUPLA CALLERS wanted to know if 128 is closed south of Boonville to Cloverdale. Yeah, after dark it is. If you're setting out for Frisco…
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THIS YEAR'S MENDOCINO COUNTY FAIR & APPLE SHOW will be September 18, 19 & 20. Entry Forms must be filed or postmarked not later than…
LORETTA HOUCK, THE LATEST. Shelly Englert writes: "First of all, I wanted to thank you all for supporting Loretta and W.Dan during this initial three…
CON CREEK disappeared this week. Ordinarily, the little stream that flows out of the Peachland hills, past the north side of the Boonville Elementary School…
MANY LOCALS felt the earth shudder late Monday morning. According to the USGS, a quake measuring 3.5 was centered a few miles south of Point…
WE’RE SORRY TO HEAR that John and Andrea LaCampagne and their son Mateo are moving to Santa Rosa. The LaCampagnes have been commuting to jobs…
THE FIRST ANNUAL Heroes of Health and Safety Fair, Saturday July 18th at the Boonville Fairgrounds, 10am-3pm. There is no cost to this family-friendly event.…
NEED A BRAND NEW ROOF, $7800 value? California Shingle and Shake is holding a fundraising raffle for our friend Turk Turkelson, a local roofing contractor.…
THE LORETTA REPORT: "It is a rare thing to laugh and cry at a rude gesture but I did both last week. Out here in…
POPPED in on the World Music Festival early Sunday afternoon and thought to myself, “Holy Moly! The world has ended and I missed the biggest story ever because I was up in my office!” Hey, this is Boonville, and the rasta scene is, well, startling in the Boonville context. Don't tell the cops, but I'm pretty sure I smelled marijuana!
WHEN JIM ROBERTS of the Madrones (Philo) stopped in the other day to drop off a legal ad, I resisted an impulse to jump to my feet to applaud him. Not only has he created a kind of gastro-paradise at Indian Creek, Roberts has cleaned up Doc Marsh's redwood grove next door, restoring the grove to the park-like beauty and tranquility the Marsh family established and maintained for many years. Roberts has also restored what I had always assumed was an unrelated cabin or mill shack up on the hill next to the mill. He said he has plans for a trail and maybe even a tree house in the grove. Due west, Dr. Marsh once maintained an idyllic swimming hole on Indian Creek he had to give up when drunks and druggers began to dominate the site, bringing the inevitable broken beer bottles, bad language, moron music, and generally bad behavior that mopes characterize as "partying." Roberts has done a majorly good thing for the Anderson Valley with his remarkable transformation of the property.