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August 26, 2026

Snapshot: Behind the reasons for Memorial Day

Soviet Il-14 at Pacific Coast Air Museum
Up close and personal. That’s the view you’ll get Thursday through Sunday at the Pacific Coast Air Museum, adjacent to  the Charles M. Schultz Airport. Sonoma County’s Air History Museum preserves over 25 military aircraft in varying states of unreadiness.

Buying the Farm

All sorts of barnyard proverbs and euphemisms could be used to explain the current taxpayers’ dilemma. Not to beat a dead horse, but we’ve repeatedly warned about too many tax increases and bond measures on the next ballot. We don’t want to sound like Chicken Little and claim that the sky is falling, but decades of runaway pension costs are finally coming home to roost. Somebody left the barn door open and all that is left in our taxpayers’ barnyard is a pile of cow pies and horse biscuits.

Letters to the Editor 4-16-15

4Cs to reopen

Letters to the Editor 3-27-14

Be very careful

Flashbacks: A look back at local history

100 years ago – November 1, 1917

Letters to the Editor 5-1-14

What was I thinkin’

Community Corner

Ongoing through May 7 – Htown Youth Theatre presents ‘Fully Committed,’ a rare comedy, at the Raven Theater. Tickets and times at www.raventheater.org.

Letters to the Editor 12-26-13

Local generosity

Newsroom Notebook: Working from home

Media workers are considered essential, but since the shelter-in-place order we here at Sonoma West Publishers have been largely working from home. Each of the members of our editorial staff is sharing their work at home space with our readers as we navigate doing all of our work remotely. If you want photos of our spaces, check out our Instagram page at instagram.com/thewindsortimes.

A Look Back at History

The following snippets of history are drawn from the pages of the Healdsburg Tribune, the Healdsburg Enterprise and the Sotoyome Scimitar. The photos are from the archives of the Healdsburg Museum & Historical Society.
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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.