LOCAL FIREFIGHTERS backed up by Calfire ground and air crews surrounded and then extinguished a grass/timber litter fire in sweltering conditions at the top of Deer Meadows Road (Quail Ridge Road, specifically) Thursday afternoon. The…
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POWER WAS OUT for most of Anderson Valley from 6:45 to 10:45 Wednesday morning. Given the timing and duration and a robotic message from PG&E’s outage line, locals suspected that the cause of the outage…
JIM JOHNSON has died. Anderson Valley will remember him as an effective and highly regarded superintendent of our schools. Cindy and Jim Johnson are long-time residents of Elk. LARRY FUENTE Long-time Comptche resident and well-known…
FIRE WEATHER loomed over in the area Tuesday afternoon with some locals getting an eerie, heavy, clammy, all-too-still nervous feeling that dry lightning was on the western horizon. Some Bay Area weather people later confirmed…
Re: SNWMF cancellation. That wasn’t on my BINGO card. Since the announcement says nothing about refunds, I’m guessing that there won’t be any. Musicians, vendors, the fair, local businesses, law enforcement, etc. will likely take…
TODAY, we want to congratulate and recognize our young cadet firefighters; Gus Spacek, Jareth Guzman, and Alan Aguilera! Several of AVFD'S FFs and EMTs came by to support them as they recieved there High School…
AV COACH JOHN TOOHEY: I would like to take this opportunity to reach out to the community and its passion for the kids and let everyone know we very much need coaches for the next…
PETIT TETON FARM is open Mon-Sat 9-4:30, Sun 12-4:30. Along with the large inventory of jams, pickles, soups, hot sauces, apple sauces, and drink mixers made from everything we grow, we sell frozen USDA beef…
GLORIA ABBOTT It is with a heavy heart that I announce the passing of Gloria Faye Abbott (Ornbaun). Gloria passed away peacefully in her sleep on Monday, May 13th, after a long battle of Dementia.…