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October 5, 2025

Solutions journalism

You hold in your hand a copy of the local newspaper. It is a collection of reports, news, commentaries and advertisements all focused on your community, the place you have chosen to live, work, retire or raise a family. It is just as likely that...

Commentary

We’ve all been exposed to pictures of drug abusers meant to scare us onto the straight and narrow path. Images of opium dens, strung out “junkies” using needles, meant to create distance between the substance abuser and the community. This strategy has worked well, creating isolation, exclusion and stigma around substance abuse issues and those that struggle with addiction. This stigma has made it harder for those in need to ask for, and accept, treatment for addictions.

Brunch is one thing author looks forward to surgeon cutting into

Spring. A magical time of year. You can see and feel life bursting forth with great force and energy. Dry Creek Peach included. Our fruit has set by this time, green leaves are growing, and peaches will soon begin to take shape. We do a big...

Someday we’ll laugh about this . . . right? It’s spring, when the world is puddle-wonderful

One of the traps of adulthood is the vague complaining about change.

The Green New Deal and You (In Windsor) Town Hall

Our Earth is quickly warming. Every year the rate of increase is faster and faster. The Earth is in critical condition.

Keeping the pace in the age of information

The last few decades have featured a slow, steady migration of personal and business communication online, a phenomenon that has left a lot of people wondering how to keep up.

Humane Society of Sonoma County – Healdsburg Activity Log, April 8 – 14

Looking for a lost pet or a new four-legged friend? See the list of incoming strays and the slideshow (above) of cats and dogs available for adoption from the Sonoma Humane Society, Healdsburg Center.

Easter news

We’re not sure how much crossover there is between the local congregations of churches and our weekly newspaper-reading audiences.

Country Roads: Between the pages

Who’d have thought that lilacs were related to privet? Encountering lilac, we recollect the lovely fragrance discovered in childhood while meandering in a garden. Spying the privet, if we’re smart, we yank out the small seedlings growing in profusion beneath the canopy of this invasive, domineering...

Cannabis Country: Confessions of a cannabis columnist

Writing about the cannabis industry hasn’t been much different for me than writing about other industries, including wine, food and tourism.
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Arts & Entertainment

Board members at True West

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...