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September 10, 2025

Letters to the Editor 6-18-15

Thank you from the library

Commentary: Notes from the peach farm

We are in August, the heart of summer, when temperatures rise and peaches reach their peak of season.

Letters to the Editor: June 2, 2021

Salmon for mayor, election to fill his seat

Snapshot: Nighttime Harvest

This content is provided by Pierre Ratte. That sound heard in the middle of the night? It might not have anything to do with Halloween ghosts or goblins, but rather with trucks and grape-harvesting machinery. It’s a bit spooky to have an 18-wheel tractor-trailer truck...

Body oppression

Body oppression is defined as being treated less well because of something about your body (size, color, age, gender expression, disability).

Common goodness

My husband and I are about to be left behind. I’m talking about something more predictable than the apocalypse: our son will be leaving home in the fall to go to college. We will still have two younger kids at home, so we’re not yet empty nesters, but I nonetheless have a strong sense of nostalgia as I contemplate how quickly time flies and the inevitable changes that are upon our family life.

Guardians of the truth

TIME magazine’s ‘Person of the Year’ for 2018 is a group of imprisoned and slain journalists. The selection honors journalists as “guardians of the truth.” Besides being slain and jailed, journalists everywhere now face toughening challenges to investigate, report and defend the truth. This is true in oppressive non-democratic countries like Saudi Arabia, Russia, Myanmar and it is true right here where economic factors are eliminating journalist’s jobs and where our president calls journalists “enemies of the people.”

Farms and fairs

The spread of special events in our wine country has been getting harsh criticisms lately as the Board of Supervisors works to more tightly define and regulate these weekend and seasonal celebrations and marketing affairs.

November Library News

This content is provided by Jon Haupt, Healdsburg Regional Library It is always a pleasure to see our many visitors attending events at the Healdsburg Regional Library. Sometimes we need to make adjustments to meet the moment. Responding to cold weather, we brought our Not-So-Spooky...

Newsom administration outlines future plans for COVID

Vowing to be smarter after lessons learned over the past two years, the Newsom administration yesterday gave a glimpse of what the next few months — and potentially years — may look like in California with COVID-19 likely to stick around.
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