Pie Bake 2012
On Saturday, August 25th, the annual Pie Bake took place at the Fairgrounds Kitchen in Boonville. Eric Bloyd, who participated in the Pie Bake for the first time this year, said, “Everyone gets to see...
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WHY DOES our soccer team have to forfeit three winning matches at the very beginning of a promising season? Short answer: Because two players were academically ineligible to participate. Long answer:...
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TWO DEATHS of prominent citizens have cast a pall over the Anderson Valley. Bruce Longstreet passed away early Tuesday morning at his home in Philo, and Efren Mendoza died in Mexico on Friday, August...
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Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably then I shall begin. And I can think of no better place to do that than by getting straight to the topic of the week at The Three-Dot Lounge: The...
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TWO SHARP EARTHQUAKE jolts were delivered to Boonville at 8:15 Tuesday morning. At work high atop the Farrer Building in the center of town, I headed for the door to seek confirmation from Torrey...
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THE BOONVILLE PANTHERS, young and inexperienced as they are, gave Potter Valley a scare at the Boonville Fairgrounds last Friday night, finally succumbing in the fourth quarter to the visiting...
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THE FLYNN FIRE was declared fully extinguished late last Thursday. A small army of CalFire vehicles still packed the parking lot of the Boonville Fairgrounds early last Wednesday morning, but from...
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RYAN J. WALLIS, 32, of San Francisco, has been arrested for suspected drunken driving and vehicular manslaughter in the death of his younger sister in a 3am single vehicle crash near Navarro early...
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LEMONS MARKET, PHILO, was burglarized early Tuesday morning, very early Tuesday morning as Deputy Walker, instantly on the case, places the meticulous burglar in the store at about 3am. It’s not known...
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CELTICA ROCKS! Upper Peachland’s own Wendy Rowe and her band Celtica rocked Lauren’s restaurant last Friday night, playing to a packed house. Two of her band mates were held up in customs, apparently...
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STEVE SPARKS WRITES: “This coming Sunday, November 11th, along with the American Legion here in Boonville, I have put together what we consider to be an important event to commemorate and thank our...
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EARTHQUAKE TREMOR this morning, Tuesday the 13th, rolled Boonville at 5:40am the US Geological Survey said the jolt measured 3.4 on the Richter Scale and was centered about nine miles southeast of...
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THE ALARMING NEWS that we could lose our Boonville-based County Fair has us all thinking about strategies to make up the lost state subsidy, an amount of some $200,000 a year. Our first thought was to...
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ARE YOUR HATCHES BATTENED? Storms beginning now will drench us so thoroughly for the next five or six days we’re assuming 128 will be closed at Navarro by week’s end. Even the cops are warning to...
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JOHN WILLIAMS of Greenwood Road has died at age 68. He was well-known in this area, and had lived here for more than thirty years. The former husband of Nadya Williams, John was born in England. He...
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SO FAR, no one seems to know, but unless AV Unified is somehow more savvy than Willits Unified, which I doubt, we’ve probably been big time scammed on the bond deal we floated to get the money for...
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THE GOOD NEWS! New hires at the Anderson Valley Unified School District include: Noor Dawood, who will function as a teacher’s aide at the Adult School. Logo Teveseu is now an instructional assistant...
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GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN: Alex Cockburn Efren Mendoza Vern Piver Aletta Hollister Bruce Longstreet Walter ‘Shine’ Tuttle Arline Day Bobbie Hiatt Jim Isaac Cleo Hixon Tom Elke George Bennett Harold...
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EVERYONE’S pleased that the DA took one look at the police report on the alleged after-hours hijinks at the Boonville Saloon and tossed it. No charges, no nothing, as was evident at the time. Two...
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THERESA AVILA has been squatting at the Navarro Store for months, but she rightly points out that she’s not homeless, she’s landless. The poor thing isn’t alone in being landless, but that’s hardly...
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