Federal Funding Cut for Museum & Library Studies
The library and museum world is reeling from a new executive order issued on March 14, 2025, targeting the Institute for Museum and Library Services, which provides federal funding to support libraries in all 50 states. Sonoma County Library Director Erika Thibault reports...
Decoding Teenagers: How Do You Know?
When I was 16, my parents let me go on a road trip with my best friend and her older sister. Along for the ride were two of her guy friends, amenable to taking turns driving and chaperoning us teenagers. We drove to a Guns’ N Roses concert in L.A., and stayed at my aunt’s house after the concert. This memory sprung back into my subconscious after my own teen daughter asked if she could go on her first road trip to see her first concert. “We will see,” I told her, and then my mind kicked into overdrive.
Off the Top of My Head Teacher Strikes Disgust Me
All across America teachers are going on or threatening to go on strike and it disgusts me. It disgusts me that this is necessary; next to a parent or a preacher, who has more influence on our children, and our future, than a teacher?
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Flashbacks from Healdsburg, Feb. 22
As of 75 years ago, after raising over 25 percent of the $20,000 goal for ball park lights, the drive of the Healdsburg Community Recreation Lighting Committee was well under way.
Let’s Book It
Many of us of a certain age remember learning how to spell “encyclopedia” from Jiminy Cricket. This small Walt Disney character advised us that if we were full of curiosity and wanted to know the answers, we should get the … (sing it with me now … ) E-n-c-y-c-l-o-p-e-d-i-a.
This was the ‘next time’
This time it was not a hurricane in Florida or Texas; it was not a tsunami in Japan or an earthquake in Mexico. This time it turned out to be the “next time” we all prayed would never happen. This time it was our time; this Red Flag Alert was meant for us.
Arts & Entertainment
‘Angels’ lands at Raven Performing Arts
:Every Sunday matinee we do a post-show discussion with the audience, so they get a chance to make comments and ask questions of the actors. We saw there were a lot of people who were quite moved and quite touched by the play. So the opening weekend could not have gone better, as far as I’m concerned," said director Steven David Martin.
