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Posts published in April 2024

Mendocino County Today: Monday 4/8/24

Warming | Westport Shack | School Day | Toddler Tragedy | Amy & Marty | Water Authority | Flight | Azucena Perez | Camellias | Palace Thoughts | Noyo Bluff | Narrows Work | Leggett Bear | Salmon Disaster | Turkey Tails | Ed Notes | You Tell Me | Weed Odyssey | California Girl | Pear Sheds | Yesterday's Catch | Ah, Clayton | Scenic Drive | Never Apologize | Eclipsing | MLB Hate | Mark Fidrych | Prison Yard | Another Swing | Toxic Food | Wrong Way | Killing Humanity | Dance | Dark Age | Talking Heads | Not Guilty | Intimate Stranger | Couple

Letters (April 8, 2024)

I was beyond bummed to read of your cancer diagnosis, not to mention an end to the print edition of AVA, though I'd trade that for your health in a blink…

Peter Plate: San Francisco’s Now Noir Novelist

Where the hell is Peter Plate? And who the hell is he? His editor, Dan Simon, calls him a “proletarian novelist,” but that doesn’t seem right. The author of ten novels, all of them set…

Shipwrecks On The Mendocino Coast

When the Kelley House Museum in Mendocino was founded 50 years ago researchers here found that people loved a good shipwreck story and wanted to share their version of a story told to them by…

Mendocino County Today: Sunday 4/7/24

Clearing | Museum Opening | AV Events | Benefit Turnout | Structurally Sound | Pet Wooly | VFP Gathering | Foodbank Driver | Reboont Berry | 1950 Opener | Soccer All-Stars | Ed Notes | Kate Coleman | Yesterday's Catch | Managing Pedophiles | Eureka Theater | No More | Zero Sense | Marco Radio | Hitchcock & Caen | Turf War | Muck Heap | Starving Children | Henri Matisse | RFK Jr | Nash Airflyte | Insatiable Bloodlust | Another World | Lower Deserts | Skeleton Spectre

Day Of Remembrance

It has been one year since Riley Hsieh went missing on 3/27/2023. He has not been heard from or seen since. Which sadly is not entirely true because according to a reputable source who unabashedly…

African Safari Guide Visits The Valley

An unusual opportunity presented itself this past week. Antony Munene, an African safari guide, arrived from Nairobi Kenya to share his story. Four different groups at Ukiah High School (where his hosts Jill and Jim…

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