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SCAC Meeting • Tuesday, April 24 • 2:30 p.m. The Senior Citizens Advisory Commission will meet at Town of Windsor Council Chambers. Agenda items include a presentation by Sonoma County Council on Aging. Everyone is welcome to attend. Bocce Ball-Ladies Group • Tuesday, May 1 •...

Down by Bodega Bay, sea meets sand on a foggy day. Fifty shades of coastal gray emerge between white foam and black rock cliffs. One might easily mistake this scene for a classic Ansel Adams nature picture taken on black-and-white film with a Hasselblad but it is, in fact, a color photo taken with an iPhone.

Q) My printer was very old and needed to be replaced, so I went to Best Buy and bought an all-in-one printer. The young man demonstrated it in the store and I liked the quality of the text and the photos that he printed. I brought it home and a neighbor helped me set it up. But it doesn’t work at all. What did we do wrong?

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.

We have enjoyed seeing so many of you lately as our community continues to work through our recovery from the emergency of late October and early November. We continue to stay positive, trying out new ideas every few months as we try to meet our community’s needs.

I recently received an email from a reputable reporter who works for a reputable newspaper. The reporter said she reads my Cannabis Country columns and wanted to know what I knew about organized crime in the marijuana industry. Her email to me was prompted by a conversation she had with an elected official who claimed that “Bulgarian organized crime runs cannabis in Humboldt County, Laotian organized crime runs cannabis in Trinity and Cal Fire wouldn't go into those areas without law enforcement accompanying them.”

In just a few days a brand-new decade will dawn, full of promise and wonder. I was reviewing the last decade and because I still think 2003 was ten years ago, I sort of ended up reviewing two decades, instead. (Clearly math was not one of the skills I mastered in the last 20 years…).

After a soaking, blustery February, March trundled in like mild lamb. Does that mean it will roar out like a lion? Umbrellas or parasols in our future? Email your budding news items to IDlewood 3…” at [email protected]. Idlewood was the original telephone exchange for...