Boonville News

Last week agents from Campaign Against Marijuana Planting joined with deputies from County of Mendocino Marijuana Eradication Team and agents from the Bureau of Land Management eradicated 23 gardens from Hopland to Willits containing 97,630 plants.

J ust as her family was launching its own Foursight Wines, 27-year-old Kristy Charles-a fourth-generation native of Mendocino County-took a gig as executive director of the Anderson Valley Winegrowers Association.

Pinot noir fans in Nothern California don't have to go far to enjoy the wealth of wine styles and price points available from Anderson Valley producers.

Wake up under a canopy of towering redwoods, hike along old-growth forest trails and spend the afternoon tasting some of the best beer and wine known to humankind; that's my idea of a perfect day.

Despite the persistent rain, Saturday visitors to Ukiah's Alex Thomas Plaza were treated to the official opening of the Ukiah Farmer's Market and the annual Cinco de Mayo events.

A lot happened while I was out west. There was a senator's 250 nm move left and the President's promise that 3% of the GDP would go to research in science and technology.

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A drive home from volleyball practice last week took a turn for the worse for Sydney Frazer, 16, of Boonville.

The excitement at this end, if that's the right word for it, is all about my son Mike, who was on his bike when a car decided to occupy the same space he was in, and who now has a cleanly broken leg and a destroyed bike .

Author Robert Mailer Anderson plumbed the depths of his life in the California north woods with his novel "Boonville," in 2001, a tale of hippies, rednecks and yuppies in the Anderson Valley.

Confirmed artists for the 2009 Sierra Nevada World Music Festival have been announced, and tickets are now on sale.

Our family has always been close-knit, at least until our mother passed away in 2008.

Jeremy John Jensen, 22, of Willits, was booked into jail by the Mendocino County Sheriff's Office on suspicion of arson, burglary, and being an accessory to a crime at 3:06 a.m. Saturday.

The Masonic Hall in downtown Ukiah is the first building to be recognized through the Main Street Program's Historic Building Plaque Program.

Tickets and hotel rooms always go quickly, but one of the most refreshingly different wine festivals on the North Coast remains the International Alsace Varietals Festival, held next Saturday by the winemakers ...

Mark Twain once said something to the effect that "everyone complains about the weather but does nothing about it." On Saturday, about 20 people came to the center of Alex R. Thomas Plaza between School and ...

Some of the best theater springs from an unlikely alchemy of inspirations. In the case of Eisa Davis' "Bulrusher," it was something like wine turning to water.

California Department of Justice Bureau of Narcotic Enforcement agents this week served warrants and made arrests in an ongoing investigation that has turned up about 300 pounds of marijuana and $40,000 in ...

With all the fanfare surrounding Cabernet and Pinot Noir coupled with the obsession this country seems to have with Chardonnay, it's sometimes hard for people to remember that California produces a lot of ...

Having just reread what I wrote in 1997 about Husch Vineyards in my book "Mendocino: the Ultimate Winery Guide," I could easily cut and paste it right into this column -- with a few additions.