Mendocino County Today: December 5, 2013
JOHN HOGGATT has died. Known in Willits simply as John The Printer, John passed away Tuesday evening at his Willits home after a protracted battle with cancer. He has printed our newspaper for many...
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THOMAS E. CROAK died on Sunday, Nov. 17, 2013, in a car accident. Born on Nov. 29, 1955 to Johanna Gillette and Thomas E. Croak Sr., he was 57. For 20 years Mr. Croak was one of the best and most...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: December 7, 2013
WITH TEACHER AND STUDENT TESTING much in the news, this sensible on-line statement: “I used to be a public school teacher. What terrified me about the prospect of having a significant portion of my...
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NO SOONER did we say we hadn’t heard any local reports of local “black ice” vehicle accidents from the recent freezing weather than we were told of three on Saturday morning. Two incidents occurred...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: December 9, 2013
STEVE SCALMANINI is the only candidate to file papers to run for the Ukiah City Council vacancy created when Mari Rodin resigned to take a job working for the Local Agency Formation Commission (LAFCO)...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: December 10, 2013
OFFICIALLY, it was 25° in Boonville at daybreak Monday. That’s where the National Weather Service placed us on the Cold Meter. Unofficially, by the Cold Meter at the house, it was 20°, so cold that...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: December 11, 2013
PUBLIC DEFENDER LINDA THOMPSON did not attend memorial services for long time public defenders Bert Schlosser and Tom Croak. Zero persons from Thompson’s classy operation attended Croak’s service,...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: December 25, 2013
THE SHERIFF’S LOG for arrests made on 19 December 2013, lists Ed Christensen, 41, of Point Arena who is accused of two felony charges of elder abuse. Some 15 years ago, Christensen was arrested for...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: December 26, 2013
MERRY CHRISTMAS, AVA PEOPLE! Our gift bag is light today but, as they say in the Marines, or used to say, “Every day’s a holiday, every meal’s a banquet!” ============================= WATER WORRIES....
View ArticleMendocino County Today: December 27, 2013
WE HAVE LEARNED that our friend Dannie Martin has died. Many of you will remember Dannie from his column in the San Francisco Chronicle, the first by a prison inmate to appear regularly in a major...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: December 28, 2013
SLOW LEARNERS. Ukiah Unified is investing $282,000 in laptop computers for its 900 third and tenth grade students. The devices will allegedly “help students transition to the Common Core State...
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Mendocino County Today: December 29, 2013
FLU SEASON is upon us, and this year the doctors say we can again blame it on the pigs or, if you prefer, swine, last infecting us the winter of 2009. The symptoms: fevers, body aches and general...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: December 30, 2013
WITTIEST CREATIVE WRITING OF THE YEAR from Holly Tannen, as posted on the Coast Listserve Sunday: For those of you who were unable to read every post on the 2013 Repercussion-list, here is a recap of...
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Mendocino County Today: December 31, 2013
COURTHOUSE REVIEW, 2013 by Bruce McEwen Things look a whole lot clearer when you see ‘em in your rearview mirror. — John Prine Those of us who have come to loathe our obligatory Year In Review features...
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Mendocino County Today: January 1, 2014
THE ROACH CLIP — In 2003 the Pride of Tacoma Press published a limited edition (150 copies) of a piece written by Charles Willeford in 1973 called “The Ubiquitous Roach Clip.” Willeford is a very...
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Mendocino County Today: January 2, 2013
THE AVA PRESENTS! THE BEST & THE WORST OF MENDOCINO COUNTY, 2013 ABSENTEE OF THE YEAR: Winter. Where did it go? 2013 was the driest year in Mendocino County ever. MIA OF THE YEAR. Mendocino County...
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Mendocino County Today: January 3, 2014
SO YOU THINK IT’S BEEN DRY & COLD by Ken Montgomery, Anderson Valley Nursery During the past twelve months (calendar year January 1 through December 31, 2013), I’ve recorded 8.5 inches of rainfall...
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Mendocino County Today: January 4, 2013
============================= AT THE BOONVILLE WINTER MARKET in front of the Boonville General Store on Saturday, 11-1, you will find: AV Community Farm – Cabbage, Kohlrabi and Mustard Greens, Root...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: January 5, 2013
SACRAMENTO BEE COLUMNIST Dan Walters wrote Saturday about a phenomenon that we’ve covered at length in the AVA as it applies to the Northcoast: “An insidious political syndrome popped up in California...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: January 6, 2013
IN THE WETTEST of times, Fort Bragg’s ingenious water system is a struggle. We asked 4th District supervisor Dan Gjerde how it was holding up during the drought: “We’re clearly going through another...
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