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…
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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…
LIKE EVERYONE ELSE in The Valley I was shocked to learn that Eric June had passed away unexpectedly on Friday at his home in Truckee. The family goes way back in the Anderson Valley. Eric's father,…
CRUCIAL HOOPS! That would be Friday night, January 8th, early season showdown between the league's top two basketball teams, Boonville and Mendocino, tip off at 8pm. FUNDING FOR OUTBACK post offices, and post offices generally,…
STUART CAMPBELL has functioned as KZYX's acting general manager since his soul bro, John Coate, more or less left the job. The prevailing assumption among station watchers was that Campbell was certain to get the…
ABOUT HALF AN INCH plus/minus of rain around Mendocino on Sunday. More upwards of four more inches were expected on Monday as a slow moving storm passes overhead. Cold as Christmas approaches with the possibility…
LAST FRIDAY AFTERNOON, a combination of high swells at the mouth of the Navarro River and heavy rains caused the river to back up and rise up more than two feet on Highway 128, closing…
SINCE WE LAST MET, CalFire's Boonville stalag reports that the first storm last week brought us a little more than one inch of rain, bringing the season total to 4.12 inches. The second rain fell…