Maria was born in 1941, a third-generation San Franciscan on her father’s side, the only child of Daniel Goodwin and Mary Fragulia. “I used to joke that I was conceived by osmosis; I’m sure my…
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“The Summer of Love, protests to be civil and a rainbow of counterculture. Whether you started here or put flowers in your hair, grabbed a drum and hitched a ride on a painted minibus, Camel…
A reliable source comments on Sheriff Allman's $1.5 million estimated budget ("which does not include costs of restoration or contingencies") for the Mendocino County National Forest "Full Court Press" campaign: "This has all grown out…
The lawsuit against McDowell Valley Vineyards has failed. It was brought by Nick Fross, the college football prodigy who was stabbed and, he says, permanently disabled at a party on the Hopland property in 2006.…
The latest in the North Coast wine oligarchy's long series of legislative coups de grace occurs on December 14th, as this issue of the Anderson Valley Advertiser goes to press. In what will surely be…
Tuesday’s Board of Supervisors Meeting was oddly serene given the County’s hemorrhaging budget, especially as it affects The Sheriff’s Department. Out in Sheriff Allman's office there's a frantic effort underway to save money without laying…
A lot of people are seething. An unarmed man shot to death under a bush in Fort Bragg? Not a word about it anywhere? What gives? I asked Ms. Beth Norman, the Assistant DA who…