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Anderson Valley Advertiser

$800,000 For This? State Auditor Tells Mendo What It Already Knows.

Did we really need an $800,000 audit team of made up of Mr. Grant Parks, California State Auditor, and his overlarge team of green-eyeshaders: Bob Harris, Audit Principal, Grayson Hough, Senior Auditor, Brandy Roberts, Dominik…

Old Schoolhouse Photo Has A Story

The lovely image of the old Gaskill School made me think that readers might want to know more about this survivor, empty now more than 75 years. The school, in an area then called Hermitage,…

Their Old, Familiar Carols Play

We’re in the middle of a brief stretch in a long year when we pause to count blessings, give thanks and acknowledge our good luck. We are finished with 2025, and look where we are:…

The New Floodgate Store

Anyone who has been in the Anderson Valley for any length of time is familiar with the Floodgate Store on Highway 128 in Philo. Over the years many businesses established there have had some prepared…

Power is out in Anderson Valley

Went out during Tuesday night storm. We are working on a basic text post which, if lucky, should be posted soon.

Letters 12/24/2025

I live near Fort Bragg and would like to address burn piles. They’re necessary for living in our area for many reasons. However, I have neighbors who have no respect for their community or haven’t read the regulations…

From the Archive (12/30/1985): Editor’s Desk

MARINE CORPS boot camp in the late fifties was fifteen weeks of beatings, humiliations, insults, and torture. The idea was to break recruits in San Diego before they broke somewhere else where there was shooting.…

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