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Are you a change agent? Can you envision a community’s successful future and take the actions needed to create it? If so, you might be thinking of stepping up in a big way – by running for Windsor Town Council.

The common good

Quit Stereotyping

We are shocked by proposed changes to the county cannabis ordinance that would reduce buffer zones around parks to allow commercial marijuana cultivation on park borders. We think the current 1,000-foot setback from parks to neighboring parcel boundaries should be increased to 2,000 feet.

There are vast benefits to composting, not only environmentally, but also personally within your home. Using compost in your home garden adds nitrogen, potassium and micro-nutrients such as manganese, iron and zinc. These additions strengthen the structure of your soil, retain water in plant structure, prevent erosion and are ideal for drainage.

The following snippets of history are drawn from the pages of the Healdsburg Tribune, the Healdsburg Enterprise and the Sotoyome Scimitar, and are prepared by the volunteers at the Healdsburg Museum & Historical Society. Admission is always free at the museum, open Wednesday through Sunday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

In November 2016, Sebastopol lawyer, Omar Figueroa, told me that Proposition 64, which had just been approved by California voters, was “a travesty of marijuana legalization.”

Drum roll please all you wonderful readers out there. This self proclaimed Luddite, aka me, has finally succumb to the coolness of modern technology. I have officially swallowed the tech Kool-Aid. Not quite sure which flavor I like best yet, but I’m now willing to sip and taste some more. I can finally see the coolness in it all, swirling in a tall glass of Instagram and Twitter.

The next big election day is less than 100 days away and it is raising all kinds of fears that, once again, us voters and taxpayers will be asked all the wrong questions and almost none of the right ones.

The Healdsburg Avenue Improvement Project’s expected completion date remains to be late summer/early fall. Those of us who drive through the roundabout regularly have seen the steady progress since January, when most of the underground work was completed.