Editorial

Thank you from the library

When a tree falls …

We tend to be a lot more proud of things we clean up than the

Thank you Sebastopol

It¹s back-to-school time. Everywhere you go, the yellow school

Thank you Knights of Columbus

Obama fails on climate

Many of us who live here in Sonoma County have been wrestling with our identity the past few years. We stopped calling this place the Redwood Empire several years ago, but not all of us want to be known as wine country. By land mass, we’re still rural and agricultural. But, by many other measures we prefer to be urban and urbane, more hip and less hick. We get wowed with mentions of “Sonoma style” and “wine country lifestyle” from places like New York, Los Angeles or Paris.