I LIKE the wavy striping on the Boonville-Ukiah Road, and am absolutely chagrined to learn that it's temporary. Of course whimsy has no place in the CalTrans mission, and not much place anywhere else in our standardized, one size fits all world.
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CORRECTION: Last week we reported that “a large crowd celebrated Bastille Day at the French-owned Roederer Winery on Sunday, enjoying music by the Boonville Big Band and a locally-catered lunch.” Most of that was correct,…
Antoinette and I were about to leave Boonville for Ukiah on Thursday July 5 when our pagers went off. We immediately checked if they signaled an ambulance emergency. They did not, so we didn’t have…
BEYOND AWFUL. Monday afternoon, a little after 3pm, an eastbound SUV containing a three-person family of visitors from England was stopped at a bend in Highway 128 about a half-mile from the Boonville CalFire station…
CalFire called it the Peach Fire. Locals, depending on their community seniority, called it either the Tarwater Hill Fire after an old timer family named Tarwater who lived at its foot, or the Octopus Mountain…
NO ERROR is more regrettable than a botched obituary, and I truly regret failing to have written that Cindy Fashauer is the mother of the late Jason Abbott, a young man sorely missed by everyone…
A few weeks ago local realtor Anne Fashauer summarized the high points of the recent “Boonville Planners” meeting where a couple of dozen locals with parcels in the proposed downtown Boonville “service areas” discussed the…
RUBEN THOMMASON of the Anderson Valley Market Thomassons, will soon be back in his Boonville home attended by an in-home care person. A hearing in Superior Court, Ukiah, last Wednesday determined that Mr. Thomasson had…