New Book by Gaye LeBaron tells history of Fountaingrove
Sonoma County’s longtime newspaper columnist and regional historian Gaye LeBaron and co-author, writer Bart Casey have announced the publication of a new history book entitled The Wonder Seekers of Fountaingrove.
Retirement Home Residents’ Evacuation Under Fire
By Will Carruthers
A new book provides an in-depth account of the rescue of residents of two opulent Santa Rosa retirement care homes from the rapidly spreading Tubbs Fire in early October 2017.
Families of residents of the Villa Capri and Varenna care homes often shelled...
Community weighs in on consolidation at WSCUHSD town hall
Chief budget official warns structural deficit leaves few other options
Linda and Joe Maloney chosen as Locals Who Make a Difference
The city of Sebastopol has chosen Joe and Linda Maloney as the next Locals Who Make a Difference. The couple was honored at the Sept. 1 city council meeting. Their faces will soon adorn banners on Main Street.
Celebrating 25 years of ‘Poem for the Day’ with Larry Robinson
Larry Robinson has been providing a poem a day for readers in west county for 25 years.
Long-awaited Suffragist Exhibit opens to the public at the West County Museum
The West County Museum was all set to open their Suffragist Exhibit in March 2020, when the world shut down for more than a year for COVID-19. Like everything else, the museum closed its doors, and for the past year, the exhibit has stood draped and unvisited behind the museum’s stone walls, perfectly preserved, like sleeping beauty’s castle.
