BIG CHANGES at Anderson Valley Unified. Michelle Hutchins has been appointed Superintendent/principal, JR Collins is retiring, Donna Pierson-Pugh is also retiring. Ms. Hutchins, who came…
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AN OLD FASHIONED TRASH MOVER will hit the Anderson Valley on Wednesday afternoon. Rain fall is expected to measure as much as four inches in…
THAT'S a very nice restoration of the long-closed Yorkville Market, and good luck to the new proprietors about whom we hope to soon know more. Ace reporter Terry Ryder is on the case!
A FEY VOICE on our nut screener says, “Mrs. Ricard was not born and raised in Boonville.” Click. The call sounded like it came from an outdoor pay phone; the voice was furtive bordering on frightened. And prompted, I guess, from an item several weeks ago where I'd said an old timer had told me he thought Mrs. R was a Boonville girl. If she'll send along her birth certificate by the goddess maybe we can get to the bottom of this most urgent matter.
DONNA PIERSON-PUGH, long-time principal at the Elementary School, has told colleagues that she is retiring at the end of this school year. HEARTENING TO SEE…
WE WERE ALWAYS great admirers of the late Helen Libeu, and close enough to her to visit with her at her home in Duncans Mills and picnic with her at her old growth redwood grove up Peachland Road here in Boonville. There have certainly been noisier environmentalists on the Northcoast but none as effective as Helen who fought off Corporate Timber from her seat on the State Board of Forestry and through her strong influence with the Northcoast’s elected Democrats, from Congress on down.
NO CONFIRMATION YET, but we are informed that Rod Basehore has died. The popular resident of the Holmes Ranch was best known for his community…
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…
COMMUNITY ANGER over recent developments at the Anderson Valley Health Center has all of Anderson Valley in an uproar.