Company: AWX
Filing Date: 2025-03-21
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001437749-25-008670
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Company: AVALON HOLDINGS CORP
Filing Date: 2025-03-21
Form: DEF 14A
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The Board of Directors has fixed the close of business on Monday, March 10, 2025, as the record date for the determination of the shareholders entitled to notice of and to vote at such meeting or any adjournment thereof. Only those shareholders of record at the close of business on such date will be entitled to vote at the meeting or any adjournment thereof.

Your prompt action in voting your proxy will be greatly appreciated. Whether or not you plan to attend the annual meeting, we urge you to cast your vote. You can vote via the internet, by telephone or by returning the proxy card. If you are voting by returning the proxy card, an envelope is provided for your use which requires no postage if mailed in the United States. If you have more than one shareholder account, you are receiving a proxy for each account. Please vote all proxies you receive.

Additionally, the Notice of Meeting, Proxy Statement and our Annual Report to Shareholders for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2024 are available on the internet at http://www.proxyvote.com.

BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS

/s/ Michael J. Havalo

Michael J. Havalo

Secretary

Warren, Ohio

March 21, 2025

### PROXY STATEMENT
<div align='center'>ANNUAL MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS
May 7, 2025</div>

This Proxy Statement is furnished in connection with the solicitation by the Board of Directors of Avalon Holdings Corporation (the “Company”) of proxies in the form enclosed herewith to be voted at the Annual Meeting of Shareholders to be held at The Grand Resort, located at 9519 East Market Street, Warren, Ohio, on Wednesday, May 7, 2025, at 10:00 A.M., local time, and at any adjournment thereof (the “Annual Meeting”), for the purposes set forth in the accompanying Notice of Annual Meeting of Shareholders. This Proxy Statement is being sent to each holder of the issued and outstanding shares of Class A Common Stock, $.01 par value, (“Class A Common Stock”) and Class B Common Stock, $.01 par value, (“Class B Common Stock,” and together with the Class A Common Stock, the “Common Stock”) of the Company entitled to vote at the meeting in order to furnish information relating to the business to be transacted at the meeting. The Company’s Annual Report to Shareholders for the fiscal year ended December 31, 202