THE FOLLOWING TWO stories should be read together. The first is from the New York Times, the second is based on a press release from…
Anderson Valley Advertiser
THE FLYNN FIRE was declared “95% contained” as of Thursday morning, CalFire has announced. The agency also amended the size of the blaze to 195…
THE FLYNN FIRE is in its mopping up stage. A small army of CalFire vehicles covered the parking lot of the Boonville Fairgrounds early Wednesday…
THE POST-NAM GENERATION Dear Editor: My name is Leif Berkson and I'm writing in response to the correspondence you have had with Jim Houle about…
If I were to sum it up using the current terminology, I would say my first childhood home had very good “energy.” It was a happy time for all of us — my father continuing to develop his ministerial skills, my mother beginning her teaching career (which continued for another 25 years), my brother entering adolescence and me beginning school and piano lessons (which continued for another six years).
THE FLYNN FIRE: As the temperature rose to better than a hundred degrees in the Anderson Valley and Comptche Monday afternoon, a fire broke out…
They're coming back. Armed with cactus-like spines, battle axes, sending their weapons long-range to drift in the autumn winds, the weeds are reclaiming fields of…
Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably then I shall begin. It seems to have been a week without much news, certainly not…
A rare Monday afternoon game was played last week when Middletown came to the Valley. This was the first time in a number of years…
Does it seem like more and more of the homeless are accompanied by a dog or dogs? The City of San Francisco has just initiated…
Just under a century ago, following the carnage of WWI, an influenza pandemic swept over much of the planet, killing over 50 million people — more than three times the number killed in the war itself. Soldiers and others moving around globally were a crucial factor in the spread of the flu virus, even though transportation was nowhere near as efficient and far-reaching as it is today.