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Anderson Valley Advertiser

Taking It To The Streets

Local judges are all getting a paid holiday for Labor Day, but the clerks and court reporters are not.

Besieged In Elk

Question: does the desire to save the planet, protect pollywogs, make us carbon happy, and provide for a structure-free coastal viewshed exempt us from evil?

Off the Record

This Week: Lisa's sulcatas, Measure C, privatizing Mendo's trash and much more...

Valley People

RECENT TIMES have found Anderson Valley teams “the team to beat” as our record of wins grows. This past week our Boys Soccer team beat Calistoga 2-1. They take on Tomales at 4:30 on today.…

Margie Handley’s Neighborhood

Marge Handley, the prominent Willits heiress and Republican philanthropist, owns a modest new home in a struggling subdivision off East Hill Road in South Willits called Haehl Creek. Mrs. Handley, 70, can retreat to her…

Letters to the Editor

TAKE THIS, LIBERALS Editor, Patriotism versus liberals — A few years ago I was wearing one of my patriotic ball caps. It had a symbol of an American bald eagle with a United States flag…

The Squirrel At The Ballgame

At about noon one day last week, I decided on a whim to head down to see the Twins play the Tigers at Target Field. It was pretty much a Toothbrush Trip, where you grab…

Farm To Farm

Visiting various homesteads around the Valley, track­ing my kids around and what not, I'm seeing baskets of lemon cucumbers, tomatoes, even buckets of fresh eggs. Friends are trading hams, sausage, bacon. In the kitchens my…

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