Press "Enter" to skip to content

Anderson Valley Advertiser

When Hoaxes Aren’t Funny

On Sunday I had just returned from a rare weekend away with my adult daughter Cassidy, visiting dear friends as five of us met Saturday evening in Sebastopol to hear a familiar band play at…

Dan Ellsberg & The Bioneers

Daniel Ellsberg, who recently announced that he has prostate cancer and doesn’t have much longer to live, sent out an email in which he wrote, “It is long past time--but not too late!--for the world's…

Mendocino County Today: Thursday, April 13, 2023

Frosty Mornings | Ride Needed | Navarro River | Local Hero | Riley Search | Panther Rico | Plant Sale | Napkin Art | Holcomb Talk | $90,000 Laundry | MAC Dinner | Public Records | Navarro Estuary | Haschak Sez | Parking Problem | Ed Notes | Old Highway | Yesterday's Catch | Abbie Hoffman | Batternuts | Duck Hunting | Lora Photos | Stinkin' Papers | Life Goal | Reparations | Pelican Crossing | Nordic Aquafarms | More Tats | Half Crazy | Express Myself | Blame Joe | Many Shots | Ukraine | Media Coverage | Problem Solved | Narrative Control | Tropical Fruits

What Happens When Officials Let Lawyers Run Everything?

County Counsel Christian Curtis, the highest paid public attorney in Mendocino County, was scheduled for a performance review during closed session on Tuesday, March 14. The Supes gave him a big raise a couple years…

Letters (April 13, 2023)

Watching 12 hours of a Board of Supervisor’s meeting is like watching killer whales trying to kill gray whales. There is a lot of circling, but you have to wait for the right moment for the biting…

Mendocino County Today: Wednesday, April 12, 2023

Breezy | Daffodils | Farm Gig | Bridge Hanging | Caspar Inn | Skyhawk Radio | Highway Fatalities | Nor'Easter | Firewood Permits | Willits Sky | Plant Sale | Another Bragg | Help Joe | Housing Costs | Russian Gulch | Guitars/Mariachis | Boonquiz | Variety Show | Salute | Drug War | Bud Light | Gomes Judgement | Wash Hands | Ed Notes | Crumb Cover | Chambers Erupt | Yesterday's Catch | Critical Hari | Trump Fatigue | Tat Game | Arguing | Hollow Earth | Mental Crises | Money Needed | Killing Zapata | Capitalism Gangster | Big Prizefight | Honoring Ellsberg | Pinky Power | Senior Impressions | Cat Luck | Ukraine | Ominous Opponent

Off the Record (April 12, 2023)

DANILLA SANDS was on the Fort Bragg gun hoax case last week: The gun scare at Fort Bragg High School today, Wednesday, April 3rd was a prank called “swatting.” Take it away, Danilla:  “There have…

Valley People (April 12, 2023)

BILL HOLCOMB PRESENTS “Anderson Valley Memories” on April 16, the second AV Historical Society Valley Chat Meet us in the Rose Room just next to the Little Red Schoolhouse Museum on Anderson Valley Way on…

Mendocino County Today: Tuesday, April 11, 2023

Pleasant | Pastoral | Spring Sprung | Napkin Art | Local Tragedies | Joan Spears | Field Trip | Good Company | Pomo Seaweed | Recent History | Albion Mill | Planning Agenda | Allowable Colors | AVA Dehydrator | Ed Notes | Windsor Hotel | Nature Walk | Hendy Meadow | Retirement Board | Yesterday's Catch | Bank Shooter | SNAP Decision | Deviled Egg | FBI Debacle | Feral Rabbits | Covid Quiz | Loose Gravel | Marin ODs | Scarecrone | Bioneering | California Street | Beaconeering | Hard Life | Congressional Investigation | Short Takes | Nervous Hiatus | Prole Transit | The Arts | Class War | Frances Perkins

-