Slim Pickens, a rodeo caller who went on to fame as a movie actor, said that 1950 Boonville was the roughest place he’d ever called a rodeo in. Buck Clark admits to having been an…
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Dozens of truckloads full of garbage were cleaned from multiple creek beds in the Ukiah Valley Saturday during the annual Russian River Cleanup. Much of the efforts were organized by the Mendocino County Resource Conservation…
THE AVA’S BALLOT PROPOSITION RECOMMENDATIONS To spare you reading through all the arguments in your General Election guide, and as our usual service to voters, we present our surefire, honest-to-gawd, straight skinny, how-to-humanely-vote on the…
YESTERDAY'S HIGHS: Ukiah 106°, Boonville 104°, Yorkville 103°, Laytonville 101°, Covelo 100°, Fort Bragg 65°, Point Arena 62° HIGH TEMPERATURES will continue to remain above average, but will begin to gradually trend closer to average…
At Tuesday’s, September 24 meeting, the Board of Supervisors received a report from staffer Kelly Hansen, of the County Executive Office Grants Unit on the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Program’s Covid-19 grant “closure.” The…
FORMER AV DEPUTY DENNIS MILLER DIES IN RENO Good morning AVA. I wanted to let you fellas and the residents of Boonville know, Retired Mendocino County Sheriff Sgt Dennis Miller passed away this week at…
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