Columns

A new brochure has been published for the Healdsburg Farmers Market and in a short paragraph titled “The Market Story,” it reads that the market was “established in 1978 by two families, the Kiffs and the Bernier.”

Courtney’s scholarship

My three littlest nephews are coming for a visit in a few weeks, and I can’t wait!

We keep being told that we are living in one of the longest running and strongest booming economies of all time. But the story sounds complicated. We have record low unemployment and lots of people are driving around in nice cars. We all have luxury...

Recently, our staff met to go over what we could do better with our coverage at the Old Felta Schoolhouse in Healdsburg.

Wonder League baseball season a hit

Thanks for everything, Howell

I recently returned from the Midwest, where I talked to a lot of people about politics. It seemed to be on their minds.

When he was still the managing editor for this newspaper, Ray Holley, had a hand lettered sign on a piece of cardboard like you’d see in the hands of a homeless person on a street corner. His sign read: “Will write for food.” He meant it is a visual joke but he also intended to impart a message that local journalists need to get paid. Holley has moved on and, like two other of his predecessor managing editors, is now working in the public sector and getting paid with taxpayer funds.

The month of May is always jam-packed with the end-of-the-school-year festivities and obligations and occasions: talent shows and book fairs and last meetings and retirement parties. As it winds down, and the remaining school days go into the single digits, we finally start to...