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Posts published in February 2021

Off the Record (February 24, 2021)

MILL CREEK is a Ukiah feeder stream to the Russian River. Used to be lush with fish, running down out of the west hills, across…

Letters (February 24, 2021)

I continue to see articles about vaccines going to vineyard workers and referring to them as agriculture workers. Don’t vineyard workers work outside and have the ability to wear masks?

Valley People (February 24, 2021)

BOONVILLE/AV FUTURE FARMERS OF AMERICA has 2 FFA members earning their California State FFA Degree this year. This is the highest award given in the…

Mendocino County Today: Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2021

Warm Day | 4 New Cases | Vaccine Priorities | Jack Sweeley | Seaplane Crash | Flaky Valentine | Disappearing Elders | Fetid Adderstongue | PA Poet | Diamond D | Ed Notes | Yesterday's Catch | Crass Limbaugh | Willits Snow | Aloe Email | Bitter Heart | Modern Art | Medicare Maze | Crosskeys Tavern | College Resignation | Little Lakers | Wildfire Resilience | Can Opener | Feel Important | Dem Zoom | Mountain Goat | American Dreamers | Mad Brute | Home Focus | Fit Man | Normal Human | Comments | Help Him | Witnessless | Gringo Cruz | Texas Mess | Unity's Sake | Woke Crusade | Found Objects

Mitch Twists Hart’s Gist

Last week’s adulatory piece on Carl Hart’s book “Drug Use for Grown-Ups” evoked disagreement from AVA reader Terry Miller. Her comment —”A horrible horrible book…

The Shot Heard Around the World

Ten-year old Robert, “Bobby B,” so-called, because there were two other Robert/Bob’s in his third grade class, was seated in the first row in Miss…

Mendocino County Today: Monday, Feb. 22, 2021

Drier Weather | 3 New Cases | Vaccination Difficulties | Wear Masks | Abhorrent Response | Grandma Food | Raskin Zoombombed | Gray Owl | CSD News | SF Resident | DA Pemberton | Tenderloin Campers | Food Hub | Viking Helmet | Ed Notes | Navarro Sunset | Ag Virus | Pioneer Women | 10% Bad | Logger Men | Inmate Fraud | Willits Depot | NCRA Railbanking | Not Eureka | Gravy Trail | Yesterday's Catch | Mighty White | Getting Loster | About Outworking | Murdering Malcolm | Biker Man | Smallpox Story

Hit Me With Your Best Shot

It was a Pat Benatar kind of day, a day when I knew I would say, at least once, “Hit me with your best shot.”…

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