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November 30, 2025

Local volunteers fight domestic violence on all fronts

Laura is a cold caller. Like any cold caller, she spends her

Letters to the Editor, March 7, 2019

Why I voted for Measure A

SSU Student Works to End Global Poverty

I am a Sonoma State University student interning for The Borgen Project as a project ambassador. We are a nonprofit organization working to end global poverty by making it a focus of U.S. foreign policy.  The world and our lives extend far beyond ourselves. We...

Class reunion looking for classmates

The Healdsburg High School Class of 1969 is having its 50th class reunion at the Villa Chanticleer on Saturday, Aug. 17 at 5 p.m. 

Local nonprofit distributes N95 masks, emergency preparedness info.

As the thick smell of smoke clung to the air and ash rained down from the sky, nonprofit Corazón Healdsburg handed out N95 masks and emergency preparedness brochures to residents Thursday afternoon at the Healdsburg Community Center.

Open Studios

ANOTHER WEEKEND OF ART TRAILS — Some 140 artists opened their studios last weekend for the 35th annual Sonoma County Art Trails and will be participating agin this weekend, Oct. 19 and 20. Above, Sebastopol landscape painter Gen Zorich greeted visitors to her studio. All artists have special pieces available for sale and many offer tours and demonstrations of their craft.

Letters to the Editor 4-30-15

Good deeds in Sebastopol

Used motor oil and filters

Millions of gallons of oil have been spilled across the United States through ship, rail and road collisions, explosions, pipeline ruptures, storms, etc. Big oil disasters continue to reverberate through the environment and through our news cycles: the BP oil rig explosion that wreaked havoc in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010, the ship Cosco Busan that crashed into the Bay Bridge in 2007 dumping oil into San Francisco Bay, and the famous Exxon Valdez spill in Alaska in 1989. While we watch the ongoing analysis, litigation and attempted cleanup from these high-profile events, there are measures we can all take to reduce a lesser but still very serious threat.

‘School Days Then and Now’ at Healdsburg Museum

The Healdsburg Museum and Historical Society’s newest exhibition “School Days Then and Now” will appeal to everyone, young and old, residents and visitors. The area’s first schools, beginning in 1858 were all privately financed. Not until 1871 was there a public school in Healdsburg.

Museum presents preservation awards

This year’s Histroic Preservation Awards were presented on Jan. 18 by Fran Schierenbeck, chair of the Museum’s Historic Preservation Committee. The Commercial Historic Restoration award went to Mike and Chris Welty for their building at 141 North Street. The Residential Historic Preservation award was given to Therese Shere and Eric Monrad for the Wilson House at 7566 Eastside Road.
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