Replace power with trust
To many of us, especially to those now marching in our streets in protest over police brutality, this feels like a moment of inflection, when our community and entire nation makes a decisive change of direction and policy. These are very rare and hard-won...
Love it or leave it
Last week, half of our nation’s population was suffering through a record heat wave of life-threatening proportions.
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.
Community corner
Ongoing through 2012 – Healdsburg Senior Writing Project, Senior Center, every Tuesday 10 a.m. to noon. Call 431-3324 to register.
History Matters: Extreme individualism hurts community
One day, when I lived in Poland in the early 90s, I was detained by a police officer who pulled me over in the Tatra Mountains for some minor traffic violation. In getting my driver’s license and registration, he decided I needed to be breath tested at the police station. Puzzled, I went along in the back of the police car, tested 0.00 alcohol content, and the entire staff at the station apologized profusely as we got to talking.
Youth activists to educate Windsor Democrats on the Green New Deal
A group of passionate, knowledgeable high school students, most of whom are part of 350 Bay Area’s Youth Vs. Apocalypse activism group, will present the Green New Deal to Windsor Democrats on Thursday, March 28.
Smart growth
On Tuesday, an abbreviated three-member Windsor Planning Commission reviewed conceptual plans for the annexation and development of between 240 and 250 homes on 58 acres of vineyards north of Jensen Lane at the western edge of Windsor.
Community Corner
Ongoing through May 22 – Healdsburg Center for the Arts presents ‘Look! Book Arts,’ 130 Plaza Street. 431-1970. www.healdsburgcenterforthearts.com.
Arts & Entertainment
More than a movie theater …
Not all the magic will be on the screen when the True West Film Center opens later this month. Here are some photos from a preview tour on Sept. 25...