JOY ANDREWS, manager of our Community Services District, informs us that the position of Fire Chief for the Anderson Valley Fire Department has been filled. Andres Avila of Yorkville has begun training and will officially…
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My piece elsewhere in this issue of the AVA describes how Caltrans has appeared to violate Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act and the National Environmental Policy Act, consistently and repeatedly, in its…
Crossed into Canada and back last week, which required that I go through the checkpoints at the border, a process that undoes me every time. When I encounter people who have absolute power over the…
Johnny Pinches has announced he will not run for another term as Third District Supervisor. Pinches, a Laytonville rancher, has always put the broader interests of Mendocino County ahead of personal advantage. He wants to…
“Mr. Bruce Anderson doesn’t get to decide,” the District Attorney snarled, his nostrils aquiver. DA David Eyster was addressing Judge Ann Moorman in open court. “Just because he’s the editor of the Anderson Valley Advertiser,…
Last Monday afternoon (Sept 23), the AV Boys soccer team made perhaps their longest trip of the season to play Middletown in Lake County. It was a non-league match, but one that will count in…
Native people in the greater California North Coast region tended to cluster in foothills along streams and creeks that flowed into river-cut valleys. These areas collectively supported what many scholars consider the largest concentration of…