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At the Aug, 20 Healdsburg City Council meeting, the council tackled the question of how many hotel rooms should be allowed around the Plaza within the Plaza Retail District, how many hotel rooms should be allowed in the Downtown Commercial District and whether the city should require all new hotels to provide affordable housing as part of any new project.

Approaching the one-year mark since the devastating October fires, I am practicing gratitude. Only last week did I have the heart to venture back to Deer Trail Road.

Last week our local newspapers made big news with a write-up in The New York Times. The article covered our new model for small newspapers to become community-owned with a reader-powered newsroom and dozens of new individual investors.

The latest presidential news conference transcript, directly from the White House:

Note: This column originally appeared eleven years ago. Our friends’ now-nineteen-year-old daughter—who checks straws as a matter-of-fact routine—did not know why or how the habit began. This is for you, Kate.

Caramba! According to CNBC, parents will be spending an average of $510 per child this back-to-school shopping season. The new wardrobe—to start the year in style—plus pens, pencils, crayons, backpack and notebooks will be purchased both in-store and on-line, all designed to launch a successful school year.

Here's what's happening at the Senior Center in September:

100 years ago – August 29, 1918

Gore and Warner: near-perfect pot partners

Looking for a lost pet or a new four-legged friend? See the list of incoming strays and the slideshow of cats and dogs available for adoption from the Sonoma Humane Society, Healdsburg Center.