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My Travels With Wes: Highway 128 Landmarks

Wes Smoot, locally born and raised, at age 90 is one of the most informed Valley historians and journalistic story-tellers I know of. His article in the Advertiser last month recounting the business history of…

AVA Editor Gets Lifetime Achievement Award

Anderson Valley Advertiser Editor Bruce Anderson earned his reputation as a North Coast literary lion years ago, in part by snarling at critics of his Anderson Valley Advertiser and brawling with a few local personalities.…

Armed Robbery in Downtown Boonville

Mi Esperanza, a tidy little market at the corner of Haehl Street and Highway 128, was robbed at gunpoint Friday afternoon about two-thirty. Few details are yet known, but first reports say the robber was…

Mendo Suddenly Discovers $6.1 Million Budget Deficit

Last Tuesday’s “budget workshop” was so laid back and aimless that onlookers could only conclude that not only is nobody running the Good Ship Mendo, but nobody much cares either.  Although the books are still…

Off the Record (December 14, 2022)

NAPA COUNTY will make forgivable loans available to help people build accessory dwelling units — commonly called “granny flats” — with rents meeting affordability standards. MENDO? We live in hope, but Fort Bragg gets it…

Boonville Armed Robber Arrested In New York

During the course of this investigation, Matias Tomas Vietto was identified as being the suspect in this case. Sheriff's Detectives learned Vietto told friends that he was leaving California to return to his country of…

The Mendo Ag Commissioner Picture

Mendocino County is in a pickle, or if you don’t like that analogy choose one of your own that reflects the situation in which Ukiah finds itself. Without an Ag Commissioner and in dire need…

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