We’re still listening
“We are the newspaper that listens,” was the title and message of our first editorial written in 1996 under our current ownership of Sonoma West Publishers. That message and mission has not changed, but just about everything else in the newspaper business has.
Letters to the Editor, July 4
An open letter to the folks who vandalized the Pride flags in Cloverdale and Windsor
Cannabis Country: Memories of the Hmong summer 2017
Last summer, I befriended a woman from Laos who worked on a Sonoma County marijuana plantation. Three other Laotians worked with her. All of them belonged to the Hmong, an ethnic group that has lived for thousands of years in the highlands of Southeast Asia.
Mental Strong
We warned ourselves very early that recovering from the historic North Bay wildfires would take more time than we could imagine and that there would be unknown and invisible consequences.
Mark West Compass
The Mark West Citizens Advisory Council (MWCAC) is releasing the Neighborhood Improvement Funding Program (NIFP) in June. It supports neighborhood improvement projects in the communities serviced by Cal Am Water — Mark West, Larkfield, Wikiup and parts of Fulton.
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.

















