JERRY PHILBRICK HAS DIED, passing away in his sleep at his Comptche ranch. A native son of Mendocino County, Jerry Philbrick was a logger and rancher, and among the most vivid personalities in this area.…
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JOIN US at the beautiful, historic Blessed Sacrament Church in Elk for the traditional Elk Christmas Sing-Along on Tuesday, December 21 @ 7:00PM. It has been 3 years since we have held this uplifting event…
AV GRANGE HOLIDAY PANCAKE BREAKFAST: Are you in the mood for the holidaze? Yeah, we know it's a bit different smiling behind your mask, not quite knowing if you can give that big bear hug.…
THESE endlessly beautiful late Fall days are a mixed blessing, eerily dry when it should be wet. The October deluge is already running low in the streams and rivers it had fleetingly revived. Another two…
EVEN THE WILDLIFE seems unpredictable these days. Beth Swehla's mini-farm at the high school was raided by a mountain lion, the first in-town such attack I can remember. Beth writes, “Hope you are on alert…
AVHS Football successfully raised the cash-money to motor down to Santa Clara Monday night to watch the 49ers take on the LA Rams, the first big time football games our fledgling athletes have seen. Coach…
WE ARE SADDENED at the news of the death of Mike Montana, for years a popular resident of Rancho Navarro and the Anderson Valley. The Montanas were well known in this area, Mike as a…
A YOUNG FAMILY was standing at the west end of the Greenwood Bridge a week ago Sunday gazing at the swollen Navarro River as it made its suddenly turbulent way to the Pacific. It occurred…
HOW LONG has it been since we enjoyed a Homecoming football game here in the Anderson Valley, with all its attendant ceremonies of student kings and queens? Palma Toohey, coach John Toohey's mom, reminded me that the current…