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Success with Vegetable Gardening Date: Saturday, May 17 From: Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens Rhody’s Garden Café is now open! Open every day from 11:00am to 5:00pm, April through September The...
View ArticleMendo Repubs to Meet in Willits
The Mendocino County Republican Central Committee will meet Saturday, May 17, 2014, 10am-Noon at the Willits City Council Chambers, 111 E. Commercial Street, Willits, CA 95490. For further information...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Sunday, May 11, 2014
TWO PUBLIC COMMENTS at the April 22 Board of Supervisors meeting on the subject of the County’s mounting pension debt provide good examples of 1. How to say something, and 2. How to say nothing. * * *...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Monday, May 12, 2014
[Early post] THE ANDERSON VALLEY WINEGROWERS got Mother’s Day off to an early start when many of them turned on their frost protection fans at 4am this morning, although the lowest recorded temperature...
View ArticleShanachie Pub Music
“Happy Hour” Is Daily From 5-6 Pm! Get $1. Off All Drinks! Free Wi-Fi Daily! Open Mic Is Every Wednesday At 8:40 Pm!-Sign Ups Start At 3 Pm Thursday, May 15th Features Steven Bates!-6 Pm-No Cover...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Monday, May 12, 2014
TO: STEVE DUNICLIFF, Director, Planning and Building, County of Mendocino Dear Mr. Dunicliff: There is an ongoing and willful violation of Mendocino County’s noise ordinance by these three Boonville...
View ArticleTwo Dead In Woodman Creek, Laytonville. Little Known.
On 05-12-2014 at 10:09 AM Mendocino County Sheriff’s Office Deputies were dispatched to downtown Laytonville, California to meet with person who had discovered the presence of two deceased people at a...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Tuesday, May 13, 2014
AS OF MONDAY EVENING, the Sheriff’s Department has not released any information regarding a suspected double homicide discovered Monday morning at a home in the Woodman Peak area of Laytonville. Two...
View ArticleSalad U.
1. The next Salad University expands the usual scope in recognition of the low water many are experiencing, but still shows the secrets of Floodgate Farm Salad Mix. Redwood Valley Late Spring Salads...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Wednesday, May 14, 2014
FIRST FIRE of the season broke out in Anderson Valley Tuesday afternoon about 4pm. The blaze was located in an area due west of the Anderson Valley Elementary School called Ham Canyon. It was described...
View ArticleValley People (May 14, 2014)
MONDAY, MAY 19TH, 5:30pm, a crucial board meeting convenes at the Anderson Valley Health Center, Boonville, the nut of which is the concern that mismanagement of the facility is imperiling it. Be...
View ArticleOff The Record (May 14, 2014)
READING THE CANDIDATE STATEMENTS in the sample ballot for the June 3rd election is a dispiriting experience. The “liberal” candidates are slick enough to stick to bland vacuities about “working hard to...
View ArticleBird’s Eye View (May 14, 2014)
Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably, I shall begin. Let me begin by informing you of some phone numbers that may well play small but significant parts in our lives over the next year...
View ArticleLetters (May 14, 2014)
My name is Wendy Read and I am the one who organized the community meeting last Wednesday to address the use of the nocturnal frost monsters now employed by some of the grape growers in Anderson...
View ArticleBacchus v. Lucre
The story of Brutocao Family wine fortune — available on their website — follows the classic early immigrant trajectory of struggle over multiple generations until at long last the good life is finally...
View ArticleMy Grapes Or Your Sleep
Sleepless people are unhappy people, and there are lots of sleepless, unhappy people in the Anderson Valley these days. Many of Anderson Valley’s grape growers, large and small, have installed giant...
View ArticleTasting AV Pinots, Ray Charles Style
Although I now reside in a lower portion of California that many hill muffins would immediately dismiss as “the hell hole,” my affinity for the wines of Anderson Valley is stronger than ever. I sadly...
View ArticleLaura’s Law, Take 2
The Mental Health Board of Mendocino County held a special meeting on May 7th to hear additional information regarding Laura’s Law (Assembly Bill 1421) and its possible implementation in Mendocino...
View ArticleFans Of The Industry
When Anderson Valley resident Wendy Read called a public meeting to rally sleep-deprived opponents of frost fans in the vineyards, she may not have expected that more than half of the 50 attendees...
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