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May 17, 2026

SENIOR CENTER happenings

The Healdsburg Senior Center has been serving the community

Commentary: Should you run for town council?

Are you a change agent? Can you envision a community’s successful future and take the actions needed to create it? If so, you might be thinking of stepping up in a big way – by running for Windsor Town Council.

Genes and geography

As we all begin a new year of life in Sonoma County, we should look across the local landscape and also within ourselves and count our many blessings. By the luck of genetics and geography, we live in a peaceful, plentiful and free country. We happen to also live in one of America’s most beautiful and bountiful regions. For those of us with family, a job and a home, we could not possibly be more blessed. And we don’t need to look too far to see someone who could benefit from our over-abundance of good fortune.

The new working mother, continued by Susan Swartz

My daughter sat down in a coffee house, opened up her laptop and said, “Oops, milk on the keyboard.”  No surprise there. She often pumps while working in her home office.  

Journalism beliefs

Some people keep talking about the death of newspapers, and it is true that hundreds of newspapers nearby and far away have ceased publication in recent years. So far this year in California alone, 14 newspapers have folded and gone out of business.

Wine Words: The magic of eating outdoors

Sitting outside with friends last night overlooking the Russian River, my thoughts turned to George Gershwin and Ella Fitzgerald. I began to hum, “Summertime, And the livin’ is easy, Fish are jumpin, And the cotton is high…”

Around Town

Wanna be a commissioner?

Country Roads

Sharing our bounty

Windsor Dems: Green New Deal Forum

An overflow crowd, including town council members, Debora Fudge, Esther Lemus and Sam Salmon, turned out to learn about the Green New Deal at a Windsor Democratic Club forum Thursday, April 25 at Round Table Pizza.

City shares watery wisdom

California may no longer be in a drought (for now), but we still have three primary goals to make water conservation a way of life:
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Arts & Entertainment

‘Angels’ lands at Raven Performing Arts

:Every Sunday matinee we do a post-show discussion with the audience, so they get a chance to make comments and ask questions of the actors. We saw there were a lot of people who were quite moved and quite touched by the play. So the opening weekend could not have gone better, as far as I’m concerned," said director Steven David Martin.