Shelter Spotlight: Adoptable Pets of the Week
The Healdsburg animal shelter, run by the Humane Society of Sonoma County, would like to highlight a couple of the local shelter pets who’ve been “waiting patiently to find families to love.” Come meet Matcha and Dean—and other animals in need of homes—at 555...
But I Digress: How to be a good sport
As I was watching the championship game of the World Baseball Classic (nerd alert!), a few things struck me:
The obvious glee the players showed while representing their countries.
The fabulous blond dyed hair of the entire Puerto Rican team
How much better Dodger Stadium looks without...
A remedy for fake news
The remedy for whatever ailments we perceive about our local, state or federal governments is a singular prescription. If the federal deficit is too high, or potholes aren’t getting repaired, or public pensions are unsustainable or Congress doesn’t listen, the same fix applies to all.
Common knowledge
In 1966 the movie “The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming,” was filmed along the local Mendocino-Sonoma coast. In the plot, a lone enemy submarine crashes offshore, igniting a runaway rumor chain that almost leads to a machine gun battle, hostage taking and a U.S. Air Force strike. We can only imagine that if the players in the film all had Facebook and Twitter accounts how much faster the rumors of attack would have flown and how World War III might not have been avoidable.
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.
