Teri Horton is a 70-something retired long-haul California truck driver who purchased an abstract painting from a thrift shop for $5 as a joke-gift for a friend which, Horton soon discovered, turned out to probably be a…
Posts published in May 2010
Mindy Galliani, Aaron Vargas's sister, talks about detective Greg Van Patten's comments on 20/20.
It rained and then it rained some more and just when we thought it was going to stop, it started again and then... it was sunny. No wind- just beautiful, lovely sunshine. So I figured…
Is it “consensual” when a man as an adult engages in sex with another who began molesting him as a boy?
Dan Hamburg is the outstanding candidate for 5th District Supervisor. He has hands-on experience in local government as a Mendocino County Supervisor and Ukiah Planning Commissioner, as well as nationally as a US Congressman. Dan's…
BUSTS GONE NOWHERE Editor: Based on the anonymous inquiries that I've received challenging the assertions made in my May 12 AVA letter to the editor, I submit the following for the record: The thrust of…
A deeply rural art gallery at the end of a Comptche dirt road is not likely to attract many visitors. Or any visitors. And sure enough its curator, Dan Parker, laughingly says of his remote…
In Mendocino County the marijuana rules are never dry.
Wake up one morning and people are saying the rule is 25 plants. Wake up another morning, it's back to six. A week later the feds are saying "zero tolerance."
The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, or CalFire, has announced plans to rebuild their fire station just off 128 southeast of Boonville. The plan includes replacement of the building and all its associated…