IF THERE'S any doubt that wine rules supreme in Mendocino County, there are 12 full color, 2' X 3’, framed and glassed photos hanging on the walls of the main entrance hall of our County building promoting the wine industry. Navarro Vineyards; Handley Cellars; Scharffenberger Cellars; Greenwood Ridge Zina Hyde Cunningham are prominent.
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A SPRINKLING of rain dampened Anderson Valley early Monday morning. Forecasters say we'll get up to another quarter inch Tuesday night and into Wednesday.
THE ANDERSON VALLEY PANTHERS crushed undefeated Calistoga Friday night in Boonville, 44-24. The defending NCL III champs — that's us — were upset by Upper Lake last week 34-22. The loss to Upper Lake was to a team that hadn't won a game the prior two seasons, and that was bad enough, but having our 16-game winning streak snapped seemed to provide plenty of angry incentive for us to knock off the undefeated league leader Calistoga.
THE DEAD MAN in the Yorkville pot patch has been identified as 43-year-old Marcos Bautista of Cloverdale. The forensic autopsy determined Bautista had died as…
I drove over the hill to Ukiah on a hot day. I was looking for the County's lead educator. He's an Italian from Point Arena. I thought about how far education has slipped since Socrates and how they poisoned him for being bisexual. I drove east to Talmage. Damaged people shuffled up and down the sidewalks in the sun. A dog was dead in front of the Talmage Market.
Veterans Jerry Kuny, Darlene Cordiero (Comptche) and Ken Hurst were honored at the Apple Bowl at the Fair a week ago Friday.
RICK WYANT. I set eyes on my brother in this life for the last time yesterday. With the exception of faint sobs and sighs, the…
RICK WYANT, formerly of Anderson Valley, lately of Willits, died unexpectedly Tuesday around noon in Willits at the age of 58. Mr. Wyant is survived…
PHILO HAYWARD has died. The well-known musician made his home in Comptche, but died in La Cruz, Mexico, Sunday afternoon following heart surgery. Hayward lived…