There is the suggestion that fires start with windblown trees breaking power lines. Our recent fire followed the path of the 1964 fire. When areas are rebuilt, it seems prudent to put all power lines underground.
Posts published in October 2017
How did I go from a city council meeting in Fort Bragg on a Monday night to the wind whistling bluffs behind Cuffey's Cove Cemetery ten days later? The journey commenced at the October 3rd…
Reconstruction Proposals;
Fire Update;
Airtanker;
Legal Aide;
Cleanup Risks;
Firefight;
Electrical Fires;
Saint Anselm;
Little Dog;
BOS Meeting;
Fall Color;
DA Punts;
Railcar;
Sewage Meeting;
Keegan Testimony;
Mislinked;
Yesterday's Catch;
Our Leaders;
Trump Presidency;
Sacrificial Lambs;
Mendocino Theatre;
Climate Change;
Nuannarpoq;
Inmate Firefighters;
Losing People;
Nanook's Friend;
Vetoed Bill
Sheriff Tom Allman reported on the ongoing fire catastrophe in the Board Chambers last Tuesday morning. He said that the Mendo Redwood Complex Fire was just one of ten officially declared disasters in the area.…
LEGENDARY UKIAH STREET PERSON, Kelisha Alvarez, was in court Tuesday morning seeking a pass to get out of jail for an interview at a rehab program. She kept interrupting Judge Moorman to say she wanted…
The Orange Angels as they are affectionately known to our readers who suggested the AVA give a great big shout-out of appreciation to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) inmates who volunteer to…
The City of Fort Bragg and the world were memorializing genocide on the Monday (Columbus Day) normally set appointed for the bi-weekly meeting. So the City Council met Tuesday. There were seven (7) people in…
ANDERSON VALLEY PITCHES IN: “During this tremendously awful time we have felt helpless seeing, hearing and living the tragedy that is ravaging our county and neighbors across Northern California. We are grateful and fortunate to…
Amongst several other counter-culture proclivities, I have been anti-war, anti-weapons of war, anti-nuclear most of my life. In the mid- to late-1980s I started regularly going to the Nevada Nuclear Test Site to protest atomic…