MANY LOCALS felt the earth shudder late Monday morning. According to the USGS, a quake measuring 3.5 was centered a few miles south of Point Arena but felt as far east as Signal Ridge, Philo.…
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WE’RE SORRY TO HEAR that John and Andrea LaCampagne and their son Mateo are moving to Santa Rosa. The LaCampagnes have been commuting to jobs out of county for the last couple of years and…
THE FIRST ANNUAL Heroes of Health and Safety Fair, Saturday July 18th at the Boonville Fairgrounds, 10am-3pm. There is no cost to this family-friendly event. Many demonstrations and exhibits throughout the day will include jaws-of-life…
NEED A BRAND NEW ROOF, $7800 value? California Shingle and Shake is holding a fundraising raffle for our friend Turk Turkelson, a local roofing contractor. He has recently been diagnosed with stage 3 cancer. In…
THE LORETTA REPORT: "It is a rare thing to laugh and cry at a rude gesture but I did both last week. Out here in the Anderson Valley we have our own way about things.…
POPPED in on the World Music Festival early Sunday afternoon and thought to myself, “Holy Moly! The world has ended and I missed the biggest story ever because I was up in my office!” Hey, this is Boonville, and the rasta scene is, well, startling in the Boonville context. Don't tell the cops, but I'm pretty sure I smelled marijuana!
WHEN JIM ROBERTS of the Madrones (Philo) stopped in the other day to drop off a legal ad, I resisted an impulse to jump to my feet to applaud him. Not only has he created a kind of gastro-paradise at Indian Creek, Roberts has cleaned up Doc Marsh's redwood grove next door, restoring the grove to the park-like beauty and tranquility the Marsh family established and maintained for many years. Roberts has also restored what I had always assumed was an unrelated cabin or mill shack up on the hill next to the mill. He said he has plans for a trail and maybe even a tree house in the grove. Due west, Dr. Marsh once maintained an idyllic swimming hole on Indian Creek he had to give up when drunks and druggers began to dominate the site, bringing the inevitable broken beer bottles, bad language, moron music, and generally bad behavior that mopes characterize as "partying." Roberts has done a majorly good thing for the Anderson Valley with his remarkable transformation of the property.
LORETTA, THE GOOD NEWS. Loretta Houck suffered a terrible head injury in an accident last month. She has been hospitalized ever since. Loretta's husband, W. Dan Houck writes Sunday, "I saw my wife today. And…
TERRIBLE HEAD-ON IN PHILO Saturday night about 10:30pm near the Madrones when a 1999 Chevy Cavalier crossed the yellow line and collided with a 1998 Subaru. Both parties required extrication from their vehicles by the…