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What’s in a word or a phrase? Sometimes words reflect huge worlds. The annual northern California “Wine and Weed Symposium” isn’t scheduled until Aug. 8, 2019, but George Christie, the producer of the event, is already publicizing it. This year it will take place, as usual, at the Hyatt Regency in Santa Rosa, with panels, speakers, food, information and networking galore.

Humble and Thankful

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:

Everybody likes to yell at their TVs when the news comes on in the evening, and people can’t help bashing the news sources they disagree with the most. Either you like CNN and The New York Times or you are a FOX follower and are convinced The Washington Post is full of “fake news.”

As I sat through my 7-year-old’s recent winter concert I found myself pondering the fact that when the holiday season rolls around, people seem to lose all grasp of reality, especially when there are kids and performances involved. Of all the strange memories one has of their childhood, I’d be willing to bet at least one of them involved some sort of Christmas performance. Maybe it was your school play, maybe it was your church’s nativity, maybe it was something else.

Virus case conundrum

"My name is Max Morris and I am the senior class president for Healdsburg High School. Healdsburg is one of two schools in our area that don’t have a girls flag football team, let alone a single flag football game..."

Our fight against the COVID-19 pandemic continues. This is what it’s like: we’re all in this together, six feet apart or “sheltered in place.” Half the time it feels like we are living inside a science fiction movie, and other times it all seems...

Worried about my medicine