SONGBIRD RECOVERY FUND: Dear friends and family, Our dear Sarah Songbird has been in a serious car accident with her beloved partner, Jon. On the way to sing at a memorial service for another family,…
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THE SUICIDE last week of a young Boonville mother has shocked the Anderson Valley where she was well known, having worked in local restaurants. I knew her, but given the vast difference in our ages,…
AVA HEADQUARTERS rests in a small sea of pavement, the site
TOM TOWEY has relayed the sad news that Todd ”Cappy” Capazelo passed away last week. A long-time resident of Boonville, Todd had been fighting cancer. An unfailingly pleasant man who knew everything there was to…
Smoke in the Anderson Valley on Tuesday of last week was so thick it obscured the east hills
WHEN FIRE broke out northeast of Willits Monday about 12:30pm — north of Brooktrails, west of 101 — Sheriff Kendall quickly ordered mandatory evacuations. Perhaps even more ominously is the news that the two CalFire…
A FIRE in Boonville. A giant plume of black smoke off Mountainview Road about a mile from the Anderson Valley High School brought alarmed residents of Boonville out of their dinner hour homes minutes before…