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Posts published in October 2013

River Views

It is raining on a Sunday in September. Major league baseball’s regular season must be over. Your San Francisco Giants didn’t fall all the way…

Play Ball!

Every time Alex Rodriquez, the scandal and injury prone New York Yankees third baseman, dragged his wooden club to home plate last year, he was…

Trish

Friends of ours recently told us that their twenty-five-year-old son, a bright personable college graduate, but no techie, found the job market so grim he…

Off The Record

MICHAEL MONTGOMERY, 21, of Lodi, was arrested for the stabbing death of Fort Bragg's Jonathan Denver, 24, an hour and a half after last Wednesday…

Valley People

CORRECTION: IN LAST WEDNESDAY'S print edition of the AVA, we incorrectly reported that Michelle Hanes, of the Hanes Ranch, Boonville, had died of a heart…

Mendocino County Today: October 2, 2013

JOY ANDREWS, manager of our Community Services District, informs us that the position of Fire Chief for the Anderson Valley Fire Department has been filled.…

CalTrans, A Rogue Agency

My piece elsewhere in this issue of the AVA describes how Caltrans has appeared to violate Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act and…

Border Crossing

Crossed into Canada and back last week, which required that I go through the checkpoints at the border, a process that undoes me every time.…

Johnny Pinches’ Last Act

Johnny Pinches has announced he will not run for another term as Third District Supervisor. Pinches, a Laytonville rancher, has always put the broader interests…

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