Mendocino Talking: Bruce Anderson
Bruce Anderson is editor and publisher of this newspaper, the Anderson Valley Advertiser (the AVA) in Boonville. Despite his protests about being interviewed for his own paper, he finally agreed to be...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Thursday, Oct 23, 2014
Spiller Must Go; Home Invaders; Catch of the Day; Wine Weirdos; BHO Chemist Sentenced; Holy ATM; Hospital Board Suggestion; AV Video; Foodshed Dinner; Anti-frack Song; In the UDJ; Berkeley Protest;...
View ArticleJane-On-Another-Plain
Leila Jane Dornacker was always dynamic, and often first: she was credited in 1968 as the nation's first female mail carrier; she was elected homecoming queen her freshman year at San Francisco State,...
View ArticlePanther Soccer (Oct 22, 2014)
The team desperately needed to rebound from the stunning loss against Tomales in last week’s Homecoming game. However, there still seemed to be downcast mood among the players last Wednesday lunchtime...
View ArticleIda’s Place—Book Two
I am pleased to announce the publication of the coil-bound photocopy edition (the only edition there is) of Ida’s Place Book Two: Revival, the second volume of what I intend to be at least a...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Friday, Oct 24, 2014
Civic Breakdown; Geiger Counting; Catch of the Day; Blood Drive; Multicultural Cells; Vanishing Security; Game Reaper; William Burroughs; Rail Ruling; Library Hours; Questionable Firing; Earthquake...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Saturday, Oct 25, 2014
Giants Lose Game 3; Stornetta Missing; Catch of the Day; Burn Suspension Lifted; Mendo is Ebola Ready; Local Food Events; Cycling Withlacoochee; Boonville Movie; Red Carpet Bombing; Thompson Bags Another
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Sunday, Oct 26, 2014
Giants Win Game 4; Diane Paget; Lintott Goodlife; Candidate Chatter; Catch of the Day; Piss Tests; Master Gardeners; Labs; Semicolon Haters; Royal Limbaugh; Seaside Beach; Grandfather Time; Cannabis...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Monday, Oct 27, 2014
Next AVHC Board Meeting; Giants Win Game 5; 3rd District Candidates; Hooked; 48 Hills; Catch of the Day; Postgame Celebrations; Online Shopping; Elvis's Pills; Boyish Figure; Poem in October; Clock People
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Tuesday, Oct 28, 2014 (free today)
AVHC Investigation; Lost Data? OMG!; Noisy Neighbors; Goldy Sighting; Sober Series; Banner Bungle; Stornetta Still Missing; Ancient Night; Animal Farm; Saudi America; Schoolbus Mystery; Catch of the...
View ArticleThe Crisis At The AV Health Center
The Philo Grange Building was standing room only last Wednesday evening, and the crowd was united in their support for the Anderson Valley Health Center’s embattled staff over the Center’s arbitrary...
View ArticleAV Panthers Are League Champs!
On a wild and wonderful day, the Anderson Valley Panthers Football team defeated the good and proud Point Arena Pirates in Point Arena 42 to 22. With this impressive win, the Panthers have sewn up the...
View ArticleValley People (Oct 29, 2014)
DIANE PAGET, 69, 40-plus-year resident of Anderson Valley, activist, community organizer, and acupressurist, passed away in her sleep on Wednesday night. A potluck lunch and memorial for her will be...
View ArticleLetters (Oct 29, 2014)
Beware Mendoland! If ever you are caught up in the judicial system, the Superior Court of California, County of Mendocino for whatever your case may be you are appointed a public defender because you...
View ArticleOff the Record (Oct 29, 2014)
CALIFORNIA WILL NO LONGER HAVE A POLICY of segregating prison inmates following a lawsuit that claimed the practice was unconstitutional. In the past, prison officers have locked inmates in cells...
View ArticleRed-Riding Hood’s Mommy — A Wolf?
A lot of ghouls come through the Mendocino County Courthouse, scary characters who seem to gallop down from deep in the hills as the rest of us silently wonder: “These guys live here? But every so...
View ArticleBird’s Eye View (Oct 29, 2014)
After all the hullabaloo of the past few weeks regarding the trials and tribulations at the AV Health Center, I think we need a little “love” to be spread around the Valley so let’s start this with...
View ArticleQat, Coffee & Qambus
One of the most widespread platitudes about music is that it is a universal language: thus the golden LP of the Voyager spacecraft launched in the 1970s and since last year gliding effortlessly beyond...
View ArticleSequoia Explorers
August, 1875 — While my great-grandfather John Robertson was herding every sort of livestock from oxen to turkeys overland from Little Lake (Willits) to Mendocino Coast boom towns like Pine Grove, a...
View ArticlePanther Soccer (Oct 29, 2014)
With four games remaining in the regular season, if AV were to win the title then they would have to win all of these and hope that Roseland Prep drop a point by drawing one of their final matches....
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