Parrish Hearing Postponed;
Navarro Flatlines;
Stornetta Celebration;
Library Broadband;
MTA Fare Increase;
Immigration Checkpoints;
Catch of the Day;
Weapons Industry;
I Hear an Army;
Medi-Cal Numbers;
Death Penalty Dying;
Carving Up Stockton;
Corporate Capitalism;
Spiritual Invitations
Posts published in July 2014
Mark your calendars. The 32nd Annual Round Valley Blackberry Festival will be held this year on August 16tth at the festival grounds in downtown Covelo. Mickey the Clown will be back as Master of Ceremonies…
Rising Stars Music Showcase is a multi-musician, multi-genre competition in which musicians from Lake and Mendocino Counties will be competing for prizes and supporting local area non-profits. Presented by 94.5 K-Wine, City of Light Recording…
On Sunday, July 27th in Todd Grove Park at 6:00pm Fowler Auto & Truck Center, The City of Ukiah, KWNE-FM and MAX 93.5 are proud to present the fourth concert of the 23rd annual Sundays…
“U.S. food prices are on the rise, raising a sensitive question: When the cost of a hamburger patty soars, does it count as inflation?” — Ben Leubsdorf and Jon Kilsenrath The sentence above opens a…
The mouse sniffed its way through the dark. Rejecting the wild pea vines, it scurried past the oak barrels full of strawberry plants. Been there, snipped that, tucked away in its nest. The mouse knew…
Don MacQueen, 88, a long-time AVA subscriber and contributor, died in Eugene, Oregon, on June 28, 2014. He was a major part of Sonoma County's literary scene in the '80s and '90s, helping found the Russian River Writers' Guild, which sponsored a lively reading series, quarterly newsletters and occasional poetry collections, notably “A Stone's Throw,” a major anthology of local poetry, including several Mendocino County writers. Don helped edit Rich Benbrook's feisty quarterly “The Tomcat,” and “Tiny Lights,” Susan Bono's periodical of short fiction. He also helped with “Green Fuse,” which published political and environmental poetry, some of which appeared in the AVA. Don's terse, witty poems appeared in virtually every Sonoma County publication of those years.
Slow week at the County Courthouse last week. In recent years we’ve had some riveting murder trials in the summertime, but this year, so far, the most sensational murder, that of a prominent physician’s wife,…
Last week, the US Congressional representative for California's North Coast, a former Natural Resources Defense Council attorney named Jared Huffman, threw the full weight of his legislative power behind the most environmentally destructive project in the recent history of Mendocino County, the California Department of Transportation's Willits Bypass. This more than $300 million project, as presently designed, requires the largest filling in of wetlands in northern California in more than 50 years.