Police and Sheriff Logs
The following is a sampling of calls received in the Windsor area during the past week by the Sheriff’s Department.
Rainy Day Funds
How much rain has fallen on us so far this winter? It’s rained enough already that some folks are comparing this year to some of the really big wet ones from recent memories, like 1951, 1986 and 1995. Last month was the wettest January on record.
Junior college recipe gives zukes zest
The Zucchini Festival takes place Sept. 14 at the Healdsburg Farmers Market: zucchini decorating competitions, giant zucchini contests and zucchini car races. It is such a blast to be a part of and/or to watch.
We’ll Laugh About This Someday, Right?: Balloons
The other day I saw a woman trying to wrestle a bouquet of balloons into her car. The wind was gusting and the balloons were bouncing and the woman was struggling and I had an epiphany: this is an exact allegory of my life as the year ended.
But I Digress: What’s new with you?
Everyone gets so excited about a new year, but really is all that pep, vigor and exhilaration (I got a new thesaurus for Christmas!) justified?
Arts & Entertainment
Return to the Russian River
When Jake Messing stood in front of the mural he had just completed for Russian Riverkeeper on the north side of the nonprofit’s headquarters at 139 Healdsburg Ave., he had finished more than another mural. He had made a return to the source from the sea himself, like the salmon he portrayed.

















