The recent rash of teacher strikes across the US disgusts me
All across America teachers are going on or threatening to go on strike and it disgusts me.
It disgusts me that this is necessary; next to a parent or a preacher, who has more influence on our children, and our future, than a teacher? Americans...
There’s Snow on Them Thar Hills
Epic conditions in Sonoma County this past week. Snow warnings for one to two feet possible at elevations above 1,500 feet. Healdsburg’s elevation is 100 feet, Cloverdale’s about 350 and Hopland’s 500.
Snow the prior week fell to about the 300 foot elevation, and four...
From the Library
This winter, the library is teeming with activity as always. In addition to our regularly scheduled programming, we are also offering a few new fun and creative opportunities for our beloved community.
Commentary: How to close the gap between the city and the community
Commentary — As the council takes up important issues regarding the future development of our community, it is critical that it adopts more effective and meaningful strategies to engage with citizens. The need for improved engagement was clearly evident at a city council work session on Jan. 21 (focused on affordable housing, including development of 3 North St.).Â
Commentary: Refuse, reduce, reuse, repair, recycle and rot
America is a disposable nation. Each person, on average, produces more than 1,600 pounds of trash each year.
Country Roads: Camellias, a winter gem
So many of our flowering plants are taking either a long hike into dormancy or a short walk to the compost pile. We discover, by observation and experience, whether some need extraction while others only need to be ignored.
Toots
We have many regular and faithful readers of these weekly editorials. We know this because we are told so in the grocery store checkout line, on errands to the hardware store and in impromptu sidewalk critique sessions. We receive lots of encouragement and are gently told sometimes to tone down the sermonizing. These conversations are our best rewards.
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.
