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October 20, 2025

Our monopolized choices

As the California June 7 primary gets closer (mail-in voting starts in three weeks) we are hearing more and more people complaining about a lack of choices among the five remaining presidential candidates. Even some of the candidates are grumbling about the “monopolistic” powers of the Democratic and Republican party machines.

Supervisor James Gore to hold north county community forums

Forums to highlight priority projects ahead of County budget deliberations in June

Healdsburg Unified

Enrichment

Neighbors

Phyllis was born in San Francisco in 1948 and attended high school and nursing school in Sacramento. Though she always wanted a career as an artist, her parents gave her only three choices: teacher, secretary or nurse.

Burg savvy

A place of feral beauty and surprise

Community Corner

Ongoing through April 24 – Raven Players presents “All My Sons” at the Raven. Check website for times and tickets. www.raventheater.org. 433-6335 x15.

Country roads

Dedication

Recycling Earth Day’s lessons

When the first Earth Day was held on April 22, 1970, Sonoma County was a very different landscape with a very sick Russian River, a deadened Laguna, lead-spewing automobiles, tons of highway litter and a county land use map poised for massive suburban sprawl from Petaluma to Geyserville.

Wine Words

Intuitive and integrative farming

Main Street

A marathon
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Arts & Entertainment

Yale Whiffenpoofs

Yale Whiffenpoofs to land on Raven stage Sunday

The very name “Whiffenpoofs” is whimsical, but followers of the collegiate music space know that the repertoire and reputation of this Yale University a cappella group is anything but laughable. Sure there are old Yale drinking songs, certainly a bit of jazz-era energy, as well as more modern pop. But are they classical? And what exactly is a “whiffenpoof” anyway?
Happy filmgoers await the previews.

New cinema opens this week