Press "Enter" to skip to content

Anderson Valley Advertiser

Walking To Town

Last night by the fire, our new (old) house enshrouded in dense fog, I said to Marcia that I didn't feel we were on the land where this house sits but rather on a boat, or possibly a raft, floating somewhere on the ocean of existence.

The AVA Recommends

PRESIDENT: JILL STEIN. Is there really any need to list Obama's failures? Is it defensible to vote for a person who represents the opposite of what you think you represent? Obama's first term saw his…

‘You Had A Bad Year’

Every few weeks the subject of healthcare appears before the Mendocino County Board of Supervisors, and every time it does we are reminded how absurdly expensive and insanely complicated America’s healthcare has become. And Obamacare,…

Off The Record

AS PREDICTED, Mendocino County Superior Court judge Ann Moorman has tossed the state's feeble attempt to bring some order to the wholesale plunder of the Russian River's overdrawn waters by inland Mendocino County's grape and…

Valley People

THE BOONVILLE PANTHERS, young and inexperienced as they are, gave Potter Valley a scare at the Boonville Fairgrounds last Friday night, finally succumbing in the fourth quarter to the visiting Bearcats. You might say a…

Mendocino County Today: October 2, 2012

AS OF LATE MONDAY AFTERNOON, as temperatures in Comptche reached 104 degrees, a fire broke out at about 2:15pm near the Comptche Fire House, and moved rapidly east driven by the summer winds that arise…

Mendocino County Today: October 1, 2012

THE TWO PERSONS DEAD in Saturday morning's Potter Valley fire have been identified as Earl McDaniels, a grandfather in his 80s, and his son Wes McDaniels, a developmentally disabled man in his 50s. The fire…

Washington’s Rules Of Civility & Decent Behavior

110 maxims about civility and decent behavior in public which originated in the late 16th century in France were popularly circulated in Virginia during George Washington's boyhood in the first half of the 18th century.…

-