THE LANDMARK APPLE DRYER at the Goldeneye Winery in Philo was gutted by fire late last Tuesday afternoon. The blaze was reported about 4pm. Flames could still be seen flickering beneath the tin-roofed structure at 5 despite valiant efforts by Anderson Valley's volunteers to extinguish them. A woman, still not identified, was injured in what was, apparently, a minor explosion of some sort. The injured person was hauled over the hill by ambulance, treated at the hospital, and released.
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AN OLD TIMER writes of the late Deed Bloyd: "Never saw him without a smile like that emerging from his high school yearbook, or in anything other than a cheerful mood. One of the good…
WE ARE ALL SADDENED to learn that David Charles Bloyd, familiarly known as Dee or Deed Bloyd, has died. A native son of the Anderson Valley, Dee died of complications related to stroke. A full…
WE HEARD that Bobby Owens, Boonville native son and grounds supervisor at the Boonville Fairgrounds, and a guy I've known since he toddled over to my house to play basketball when he was still in…
SERVICES FOR DENIS LEE BOARDMAN, who was murdered in his home in Fort Bragg on Jan. 2, 2016, will be held next week. A VA memorial-internment of ashes will be held Friday, Feb. 19, at…
UP ON THE ROOF. Three local high school girls, unaware that their beloved community newspaper never sleeps, climbed up on the roof outside our office window early Saturday night where they downed wine coolers (or whatever sweetened booze our nation's future guzzles these days) and giggled for nearly an hour.
EARLY rainfall totals suggest that this season’s El Niño isn’t shaping up to be as big a beast as those of 1997-98 and 1982-83, but there’s still a long way to go before knowing definitively…
OVER THE PAST THREE WEEKS, we've had only three rain-free days. Put differently, over the past 21 days, 18 were wet. During that stretch Yorkville's season total jumped from 16.7 to 33.9 inches. That means 17.2…
HIGHWAY 128 was closed at Flynn Creek Sunday evening a little before 8 in anticipation of flooding of the Navarro River. By 9pm the river was rising fast and would soon reach flood stage at…