The murder trial of Marvin Johnson and Simon Thornton is underway at the Mendocino County Courthouse. Johnson and Thornton are charged as accomplices in the fatal shooting last summer of Joe Litteral, who took a…
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RAY WHITTAKER is a good ref and a good guy. Anybody who's attended a local ball game over three generations of Mendocino County high school kids can attest to his steady, competent fairness. He has…
CURTIS ‘CURT’ BERRY, long-time resident of upper Greenwood Road, has died. We hope to have a full obituary in next week's paper. POINT ARENA'S high school baseball team is justly proud of being the first…
PLEASE WRITE LETTERS OF SUPPORT FOR BILLY MAYFIELD'S PAROLE TO: GOVERNOR JERRY BROWN, STATE CAPITOL BUILDING, SUITE 1173, SACRAMENTO, CA, 95814. CURTIS ‘CURT’ BERRY, long-time resident of upper Greenwood Road, has died. We hope to…
We rode out of St. Julien, across the bridge over the Dordogne River and a mile down the other side of the river. We turned right on a side road toward a settlement called Le…
RAY WHITTAKER is a good ref and a good guy. Anybody who's attended a local ball game over three generations of Mendocino County high school kids can attest to his steady, competent fairness. He has…
A READER sends along this comment with some unkind assessments of the mental acuity of AVA staff: “Every time someone tells me how ‘logical’ and ‘rational’ males are relative to females, I merely point to…
ACCORDING to Saturday's SF Chronicle, the city's coyote population has grown to 13. How the cunning little beasts got established in the city was a mystery until DNA testing, and then a photo, revealed that…
This article first appeared in the AVA in June, 1996. (I have included an excerpt from Wikipedia about Mr. Blackburn as introduction/background. — Mark Scaramella * * * A memoir of author/lyricist Tom Blackburn Dirty…