Anticipating a federally funded runway improvement grant, the Boonville Airport Committee put out bids for an engineering consultant early this year. It’s been several years since Boonville International's Air Strip crew had surveyed the engineering/consulting…
Posts published in July 2013
Temperatures are finally climbing into the mid-90s after one of the coldest, most overcast, lingering springs on recollection. Summer crops are thirsting for sunshine. Thanks to wire hoops and plastic rowcovers I succeeded in bringing…
ACCORDING to a Sheriff's Department press release, Mr. Dana Brandon Hambelton, 30, of Arcata, at approximately 4pm Sunday was southbound on 101 when a deputy “observed” his “non-operational tail lamp.” The deputy subsequently “detected the…
WILL PARRISH, ace eco-reporter for the AVA, was in court Friday where he learned that DA Eyster has filed “either 16 or 19 misdemeanor charges against me, including a separate ‘Unlawful Entry’ charge for every…
RECOMMENDED READING: “Spy Rock Memories” by Larry Livermore. The Mendocino County literary oeuvre is pretty thin, although there are lots of good writers in our beloved mother county. This book helps make up the deficit,…
AS MANY of the worst men in the world assemble at Bohemian Grove, and the Press Democrat gazes, awestruck, from the prone position the paper instinctively assumes in the presence of power, Cody Fincher accurately…
OUR CONGRESSMAN will be in Belvedere Saturday afternoon. Fresh off challenging his constituents to a photo contest, Mr. Irrelevant will join Nancy Pelosi at a billionaire's home to raise money for Democrats. Democrats, as most…
DC NONSENSE Editor, The nonsense going on in Washington these days keeps making me think that we are living in a completely broken, nonfunctional state; one that is incapable of even recognizing, much less responding…
ASSAULT WITH DEADLY WEAPON CHARGE ADDED TO DUI CASE by Tiffany Revelle The Mendocino County District Attorney's Office is taking a novel approach in a misdemeanor DUI case where the defendant also faces a felony…