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Posts published in May 2024

Mendocino County Today: Tuesday 5/7/24

Sunny/Breezy | Oak Tree | Bragg Fire | Health Fair | Housing Negotiations | Cry for Help | Waiting Vets | Kid Sitters | Community Center | RR Tracks | Cycling Race | Ed Notes | Indigestible Pizza | Partners Exhibition | Colege Grad | Big Band | Planning Reports | Elk Rummage | CASA Benefits | Yesterday's Catch | Birthday Mays | Bob Avellini | Brimstone | Facebook Blues | Teacher Salary | Notorious Bolsheviks | Security Cameras | Desperate Blob | UFOs | Student Demonstrations | Rich Media | Disingenuous Scaremongering | Candlestick Park | UCLA Jumbotron | Marx Birthday | Unprincipled Man | Not Fight | USA 1776 | Visiting Truckee | Wilt's Class | Blues Rules | Rape Field

Letters (May 7, 2024)

Hello, my name is Tina Moody I live in Hopland. The reason for this letter is a tree service has come on our property and cut multiple trees down to the ground in the past two days and they say they are coming back to cut more…

Goodbye To The Paper-Paper

Saying goodbye to the AVA’s print edition is a somber occasion, a parting we all knew would come but which still feels too soon.  Everything and everyone we love disappears, of course, if they haven’t…

Mendocino County Today: Monday 5/6/24

Brisk | Rain Puddle | Dakota Stafslien | Stormy Sky | AVUSD Phones | Meth House | Boomers Auction | County Notes | Cartoonist | Insurance Disaster | PGreed&E | Touring MendoCo | Chinese Cabbage | Bittersweet | AVA Haiku | Willits Hills | Tree Faller | Winning Bouquet | Pacific Enterprises | SNWMF Lineup | Yesterday's Catch | Take Out | Trying ZYN | Rooster Boy | Vietnam/Gaza | Jews/Zionists | Evacuate Rafah | Ben-Gurion Quote | Gonzo Gourmand | Frail As | Silver Lining | Storm Survivor | Bluebells

Valley People (May 6, 2024)

THE HANES RANCH: An AV Historical Society Event The AV Historical Society presents another Valley Chat featuring John Hanes sharing The History of the Hanes Family & Ranch (including the famous shootout).  Sunday May 5…

The Mighty AVA Website Lives On

When I first joined the District, I heard about the wildcard local newspaper and was advised to not engage. So upon hearing that, of course, I absolutely had to meet the Editor. I was kindly…

We’ll Have to Stop Meeting Like This

As you’re boiling water for coffee, you turn on the morning news – recurring loops of crime, traffic and weather bracketed by ads you’ve heard thousands of times. In Northern California the company providing the…

Saving Local History

With the demise of the print version of this newspaper I’ve written for for over a decade I thought about what I’d like to contribute to the last issue. I write a lot about local…

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