SCHOOL BOARD update from Steve Sparks: "Following last week’s meeting the Board now has its five members in place and expectations are high for the school’s future development. The Gang of Five features Dick Browning,…
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THREE CHAMPIONSHIPS and it isn't even basketball season. Another soccer championship for coach Steve Sparks. Another football championship for coach Dan Kuny. And a league championship for rookie volleyball coach, Kendra McEwen, with Kendra's girls…
IT'S BEEN A BANNER YEAR for high school sports in the Anderson Valley. The girl's volleyball team is league champs and has a good shot at the small school regional title; our perennial powerhouse of…
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.
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 the result of multiple gunshot wounds. THE MAN found in…
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.