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…
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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…
REBECCA BRENDLEN is retiring after nearly four decades as multi-tasking school secretary with Anderson Valley Unified. And she's still smiling. The exhausted cliche about school secretaries is that they truly manage the schools while school…
COLIN WILSON of Yorkville, retired AV Fire Chief, writes: “We’ve been seeing a lot of PG&E contractors out here in the Yorkville area for a couple of weeks or more. Starting last week, possibly the…
ASHLEY JONES has died. The long-time resident of the Anderson Valley had moved to Alameda to be closer to family where he passed last week. A full obituary to follow. A TERRIBLE ACCIDENT about a…
A RATHER STARTLING permit application has arrived at the Anderson Valley Community Services District, which asks that the Yorkville Market be converted to a “cannabis manufacturing facility.” The applicant is the Walsh family, Lisa Walsh,…