ANDERSON VALLEY'S latest legal crop? “Boonville piment d'ville, a sweet, spicy, basque red chile, sown, grown & harvested by locals, Mendocino County, fall 2013 crop.” The peppers, not grown anywhere else in the United States,…
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The latest offer to settle the case against Will Parrish hinges on his agreeing to own up to $490,000 in damages claimed by Caltrans but only two counts of trespassing.
The Board Of Supervisors approved the Mendocino Town Plan at a tumultuous meeting in the town of Mendocino on Tuesday. The key remaining issue was possible designation of the town as a “Sensitive Coastal Resource…
A sidebar to the October 16th Mendocino County Mental Health Board meeting occurred during a discussion about responding to a letter written by Sonya Nesch, a former member of the Mental Health Board and current…
Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably then I shall begin. Tomorrow is Halloween, and as a community we have to get through another evening of “civil unrest” here in the Valley. Hopefully,…
Bert Schlosser’s noisy, crazy, woozy, boozy days are gone, and so is Bert. The wildest man and the best lawyer in Mendocino County’s pond of criminal defense practitioners leaves a legacy unmatched and unmatchable. He…
With Roseland Prep having clinched their fourth regular season title in succession, The Anderson Valley Panthers had their eyes on the runners-up spot prize as the final week of the season approached. In their way…
When asked to do this story, I was hesitant as to where to start. So let us start at the beginning. The year was 1894, when Eduino Zeni was granted 120 acres on Fishrock Road, by the U.S. government for homesteading. After clearing the land he built an outhouse and two-room cabin, then planted a vineyard and a small orchard containing figs, apples, and cherries. He then sent a letter home to Austria telling his mother, “I have accumulated a few dollars, bring me a bride.”
For the last dozen years, the Fort Bragg Mill site has been little more than 415 acres of “off limits” shoreline on the town’s western face. Every 4th of July, one can enjoy one evening…