POINT ARENA'S terrific all-round athlete, Trace Yager, has been named Small School Basketball Player of the Year. (Yager is also among the Redwood Empires top young golfers.) All-Empire First Team: Kasey Cazet, Rincon Valley Christian,…
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COUNTY GOVERNMENT, always abreast of breaking news, distributed this unsigned announcement Monday: “Dear County Employees, The County flags will be flown at half mast as a mark of respect for the victims of the senseless…
SPEED TRAP STATE Editor, Have you noticed that ever since the CHP got to use radar, we've looked like a Southern speed-trap state? CHP officers are hiding behind overpasses and bushes trying to make money…
When I came home from a backpacking trip to Desolation Wilderness one of the temples of my eyeglasses was drastically out of balance with the other. I learned that term, “temple” (for the sidearm of…
Coralee Whitsett, a marine biologist currently managing the aquarium at the Point Cabrillo lighthouse north of Mendocino, has a surprising mission in life — raising Tibetan yaks. “What do you do with them?” is the…
What follows is a brief account of deceit, betrayal, and scandal at the headquarters of the State Department of Parks and Recreation. Arguably, this tawdry affair is shaping up to be the most destructive example…
MENDO SPORTS HISTORY. A reader writes: “After reading the AVA for 20 years I finally found a mistake. (sic) Seb Coe never set foot in Mendocino Co. It was his arch rival, Steve Ovett. They…