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Healdsburg Appreciates Its Elders

Kudos to the City of Healdsburg! The City of Healdsburg sure knows how to appreciate its seniors! We felt so very honored to participate in the glorious Christmas Dinner you so generously gave us at the Villa. Thank you, thank you! It was wonderful!  Being...

But I Digress…

This column will run after the election is, mercifully, over. Yet, because of deadlines, I am writing before the votes are tallied. Which means that right now I am either still be exhaling a long sigh of relief at having narrowly escaped being “governed” by a bi-polar, loose hinged, racist, misogynist lunatic or looking at property in Vancouver.

Sonoma West Letters to the Editor, Nov. 1 2018

Make time for the Grand Jury

Snapshot: Signs of Summer

Summer is officially here. Astrological summer occurs on the solstice, the longest day of the year, which was June 21, though it varies from year to year. For instance, the summer solstice is June 20 in 2024, and June 21 in 2025. Meteorological summer,...

Is Giorgi Park safe?

Editor: I was so excited for the new Giorgi Park to open because

THE VIEW FROM HERE: Loss adversion

I fall into that age bracket of people who are unempowered and

Supporting McGuire

Editor: It’s been a tough road for education over the past

Someday we’ll laugh about this . . . right? Car Shopping

My beloved van is on its last legs, so Matt and I have been looking at possible replacement vehicles. We’ve narrowed it down to two makes and models, so we went down to test drive one of the contenders at Car Max in Santa Rosa. The car was nice, with many of the features we’re looking for… but it was a really, really weird dark brown. Luckily we’re in a nice position of not NEEDING a car, and we can keep looking, because I am not at ALL partial to brown, and by that I mean I hated it.

A spoonful of empathy

susan Swartz

Letters to the Editor

Barbra Friedman, who recently won an award for raising the most money in Barb's Tri, a new triathalon that raises money for cancer patients, submitted the following thank you note to the West County community:
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Arts & Entertainment

$20k split 3 ways in Arts for All grants

The recent reveal of Jake Messing’s River Dreams mural at Russian Riverkeeper was one of three projects from the city’s Arts & Culture Commission...

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