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It was Valentine’s Day, it was Ash Wednesday, and that evening the Golden State Warriors lost to the Portland Trailblazers in an exciting baskeball game. But there was an infinitely greater loss that day — 17 precious ones were killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida. Yes, we had another mass shooting at a school in America.

Yvonne, a native San Franciscan, grew up an independent child in

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.

You’re invited to stop in soon to meet Aleta Dimas, our library’s new branch manager. As a memory aid, I told her that I would simply remember that A-Leader is here. She appreciated the jest, and said that when she was little, her dad’s friend had said: “She’s not a litre, she’s a half gallon.”

Open letter to hospital leaders

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.

If we didn’t know it before, it should be painfully obvious by now that our future fire protection services, energy utility bills and many local special taxes will all cost us more in our immediate future — and forever.