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Panther Soccer 2013

The 2013 AV High School Boys’ soccer season gets underway today, Wednesday, August 28, when Rincon Valley Christian visits the Valley for a 4.30pm kick-off at Tom Smith Field alongside the high school

Living In A Wick Drain Stictcher, Part 2

By the end of my third day of living high in the wick drain stitcher in the northern construction area of the CalTrans Willits Bypass (Saturday, June 22nd), I felt as though in the throes…

Bird’s Eye View

Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably then I shall begin. Welcome to the 300th edition of “A Bird’s Eye View” since Sir Bruce’s return to the helm of the AVA in July…

Officer, There’s A Man In My Underwear Drawer

Attorney General Eric Holder was just in San Francisco to address the American Bar Association. He told the lawyers that he wanted federal prosecutors to lighten up on non-violent drug offenders. On Wednesday, the Mendocino…

River Views

Australians call them muttonshells, but we say abalone; the term deriving from the Spanish abulón. However you say it, the flesh of the abalone is such a commodity that its reputed black market value in…

How Good It Is, Lemons’ Market

Lemons’ Market, nestled in the small burg of Philo just five miles north of Boonville, has been a mainstay in Anderson Valley for 40 years now. Elmer and June Lemons, along with their son Tom…

Lives & Times Of Valley Folks: Clyde ‘Junior’ Price

Ed note: Junior Price, 92, has died in Santa Rosa. To honor the memory of this vivid Valley old timer, we are re-printing the interview he did with Steve Sparks in August of 2011. I…

Berry Picking

There’s nothing like indulging in the late summer pastime of roadside berry picking to renew your appreciation for the free bounty of edibles Mother Nature provides us with, coming from the invasive species Himalaya Blackberries.…

Bird’s Eye View

Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably then I shall begin. Just stating what I thought was the obvious until a couple of recent incidents. if your dog appears to panting excessively or…

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