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August 27, 2026

From the library

We have enjoyed seeing so many of you lately as our community continues to work through our recovery from the emergency of late October and early November. We continue to stay positive, trying out new ideas every few months as we try to meet our community’s needs.

Let’s Book It: Friends of the Windsor Library

You’re invited to stop in soon to meet Aleta Dimas, our library’s new branch manager. As a memory aid, I told her that I would simply remember that A-Leader is here. She appreciated the jest, and said that when she was little, her dad’s friend had said: “She’s not a litre, she’s a half gallon.”

Around Town

Parade needs participants

An Unforgettable Elephant-headed God

Over a period of two years, pictures of this sculpture surrounded by a hedge at the crossing of two streets in Healdsburg failed to make the cut.  I’ve wanted to write about it. I walk or drive by often. Several attempts to find the right...

Letters to the Editor 12-25-14

New and exciting educational activity in Cloverdale Jan. 28

Letters to Editor 10-5-16

Embracing change and honoring heritage

Snapshot: the Cookbook Dinner Club

We share a meal selected from a cookbook chosen by the host. The host selects the book, cooks the main course, parceling out assignments for appetizer, two sides, and dessert. It all works out.

Letters to the Editor, Sept. 7, 2017

Likes seeing council on TV

Letters to the Editor 3-26-15

A perspective on NorCal noise

Neighbors

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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.