The late postponement of the opening game against Clear Lake as a result of the very disappointing fact that no officials had been assigned to referee the game, saw the 2014 AV High School Boys’ football season finally getting underway with a non-league match at Kelseyville on Friday, August 29. The team arrived in two vans in time to watch the conclusion of the AV Girls’ team loss against the Knights before preparing to start their own match on what was a very warm late afternoon in the drought-ridden landscape of Lake County.
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THE BLANDLY DECEPTIVE letter from the Anderson Valley Health Center Board in this week's paper appears three months late and takes 500 words to say all the letter writers are wrong, the Board is correct…
So that was it. With the Labor Day weekend over, summer has officially been and gone, although the desperately needed rainfall is still some way off, assuming we get some!? The holiday weekend saw the usual influx of tourists, many of whom were polite and respectful, but some found the need to treat our roads like racetracks and I saw several instances of their “footprints” in the form of the above average amount of road kill.
When is it reasonable to spend precious moneys to confirm the obvious? Phillip Dow, the head of the Mendocino Council of Governments (MCOG), insists that any initiative, such as the Valley Trails Initiative, must put…
This coming weekend will see the annual Labor Day festivities, which have taken place at this time as a Federal holiday since 1894 and viewed by most Americans as the symbolic end of the summer. This event celebrates the American labor movement and is dedicated to the social and economic achievements of workers, so in these days of decline in the power of the unions perhaps I should remind you why you will be enjoying your beers and BBQ this weekend by referring to the influence and importance of labor unions with some appropriate Quotes of the Week.
RATHER TENSE AV Ambulance fundraiser at the Boonville Fairgrounds yesterday (Sunday), what with a petition circulating to recall the Health Center's board of directors as the young new doctor, Logan McGhan, was introduced as the…
Legendary Boonville Beer Festival Surpasses $1,000,000 Raised To Date For Local Anderson Valley Non-Profits August 14, 2013 – Boonville, CA – The Wee Boont Foundation, strongly supported by Anderson Valley Brewing Company, recently donated upwards…